FiboSearch - Ajax Search for WooCommerce

The most popular WooCommerce product search plugin. It gives your users a well-designed advanced AJAX search bar with live search suggestions. By default, WooCommerce provides a very simple search solution, without live product search or even SKU search. FiboSearch (formerly Ajax Search for WooCommerce) provides advanced search with live suggestions. Who doesn’t love instant, as-you-type suggestions? In 2023, customers expect smart product search. Baymard Institute’s latest UX research reveals that search autocomplete, auto-suggest, or an instant search feature is now offered on 96% of major e-commerce sites. It's a must-have feature for every online business that can’t afford to lose customers. Why? FiboSearch helps users save time and makes shopping easier. As a result, Fibo really boosts sales. Features ✅ Search by product title, long and short description ✅ Search by SKU ✅ Show product image in live search results ✅ Show product price in live search results ✅ Show product description in live search results ✅ Show SKU in live search results ✅ Mobile first – special mobile search mode for better UX ✅ Details panels with extended information – “add to cart” button with a quantity field and extended product data displayed on hovering over the live suggestion ✅ Easy implementation in your theme - embed the plugin using a shortcode, as a menu item or as a widget ✅ Terms search – search for product categories and tags ✅ Search history – the current search history is presented when the user clicked/taped on the search bar, but hasn't yet typed the query. ✅ Limit displayed suggestions – the number is customizable ✅ The minimum number of characters required to display suggestions – the number is customizable ✅ Better ordering – a smart algorithm ensures that the displayed results are as accurate as possible ✅ Support for WooCommerce search results page - after typing enter, users get the same results as in FiboSearch bar ✅ Grouping instant search results by type – displaying e.g. first matching categories, then matching products ✅ Google Analytics support ✅ Multilingual support including WPML, Polylang and qTranslate-XT ✅ Personalization of search bar and autocomplete suggestions - labels, colors, preloader, image and more Try the PRO version FiboSearch also comes in a Pro version, with a modern, inverted index-based search engine. FiboSearch Pro works up to 10× faster than the Free version or other popular search solutions for WooCommerce. Upgrade to PRO and boost your sales! PRO features ✅ Ultra-fast search engine based on the inverted index – works very fast, even with 100,000+ products ✅ Fuzzy search – works even with minor typos ✅ Search in custom fields with dedicated support for ACF ✅ Search in attributes ✅ Search in categories. Supports category thumbnails. ✅ Search in tags ✅ Search in brands (We support WooCommerce Brands, Perfect Brands for WooCommerce, Brands for WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Brands). Supports brand thumbnails. ✅ Search by variation product SKU – also shows variable products in live search after typing in the exact matching SKU ✅ Search for posts – also shows matching posts in live search ✅ Search for pages – also shows matching posts in live search ✅ Synonyms ✅ Conditional exclusion of products ✅ TranslatePress compatible ✅ Professional and fast help with embedding or replacing the search bar in your theme ✅ and more... ✅ SEE ALL PRO FEATURES! Showcase See how it works for others: Showcase. Feedback Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Feel free to contact us via the contact form.

1.29.0, October 29, 2024

• ADDED: Integration with the Listeo theme
• ADDED: New troubleshooting test – warning when “Ajax Search Lite” or “Ajax Search Pro” plugins are active
• ADDED: WCAG improvements – possibility to select and open a search icon using the keyboard
• ADDED: Search icon preloader. In some rare cases, a user can wait longer to display the search icon or search bar. Instead of an empty place, a placeholder is displayed
• FIXED: Generatepress theme integration – incorrect mobile overlay on the checkout in the Generatepress theme
• FIXED: A better way of calculating window width when the breakpoint is checked
• TWEAK: Hiding the XStore theme documentation button on the settings page
• UPDATED: The .pot file.
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.28.1, June 28, 2024

• FIXED: Removed the phrase “polyfill.io” from the JavaScript code comment. FiboSearch has never linked to this compromised library, but some security tools recognize this JavaScript comment as a potential link to malware. All reports are false positive.
• FIXED: PHP deprecated notice in \DgoraWcas\Helpers::keyIsValid
• FIXED: Unnecessary display of warning in Troubleshooting when products are displayed using a widget from “JetSmartFilters”

1.28.0, May 27, 2024

• ADDED: New search bar style - a compact version of a “Pirx” style
• ADDED: Integration with the “Cartzilla theme”
• ADDED: Integration with the “Rey theme”
• ADDED: Placeholders to display custom content for new suggestion types like taxonomy, posts, pages, and product variation
• FIXED: “Woodmart theme” - unable to close the mobile menu after exiting the mobile search overlay
• FIXED: “Flatsome theme” - disappearing search bar on mobile phones
• FIXED: “Flatsome” - cannot change search bar style to Pirx
• FIXED: “Divi theme” - shortcodes are not rendered in the description in the Details Panel for pages
• FIXED: “XStore theme” - the integration doesn't replace all search forms
• FIXED: Force disabling transition effect on search input to avoid unexpected layout bouncing
• FIXED: Allowing to calculate score including one and two-character words
• FIXED: Better recognition of iOS
• FIXED: Uncode theme - the search icon doesn't show on the header
• TWEAK: Removed OPcache invalidation for the shortcode template file
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK to v2.7.2

1.27.0, January 31, 2024

• ADDED: Integration with the “Betheme theme”
• ADDED: Highlight words in search results with Greek letters regardless of accent
• ADDED: Support for “Full-width Search” in the “XStore theme”
• FIXED: Multiple search containers on mobile in the “Astra theme” integration
• FIXED: No focus on search input for mobile devices in the “Astra theme” integration
• FIXED: Allow an HTML <i> tag in suggestion titles and headlines
• FIXED: Multilingual support is active even for one language
• FIXED: Overriding the search icon and form in the header was not working properly in the “WoodMart integration”
• FIXED: Missing filters from “Advanced AJAX Product Filters” plugin in the “Divi theme”
• FIXED: Replace % for more stable format %% in a sprintf function
• FIXED: An unwanted modal after closing the search overlay on mobile in the “Flatsome theme”
• FIXED: Missing colors after updating the “Bloksy theme” to 2.x
• FIXED: Incorrect calculation of a product's position in search results when it contains Greek letters
• FIXED: Incorrect term language detection in the WPML plugin. Replacing term_id with term_taxonomy_id
• FIXED: Unwanted ampersand entity in the product description of search results
• UPDATED: Requires PHP: 7.4
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Polish translation
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.6.2

1.26.1, October 19, 2023

• FIXED: Details panel - wrong HTML format of stock status element

1.26.0, October 17, 2023

• ADDED: Integration with “Bricks builder”
• ADDED: Integration with “Brizy builder”
• FIXED: Calc score by comparing every word of the search phrase instead of all search phrase
• FIXED: WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugin - invalid search results e.g. not hidden products and categories in the search results
• FIXED: Flatsome - when there are more search icons, only one is replaced
• FIXED: WPRocket - in some cases search fields/icons are not replaced immediately after the page load
• FIXED: Highlight matched words instead of the whole search phrase
• TWEAK: Allowing access to the Personalization class via DGWT_WCAS() function
• TWEAK: HUSKY - Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce plugin - disable the test in the Troubleshooting module for newer versions of this plugin
• REFACTOR: Replace .click() with trigger('click'), .focus() with trigger('focus'), .blur() with trigger('blur')
• REFACTOR: Replace jQuery.fn.mouseup() with $(document).on('mouseup')
• REFACTOR: Replace jQuery.isFunction() with typeof fn === 'function'
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.5.12

1.25.0, July 06, 2023

• ADDED: Possibility to search for taxonomy terms regardless of accents in a phrase or term name
• ADDED: Added some new filters to change URLs of results in autocomplete and details panel
• FIXED: Warnings due to open_basedir restrictions
• FIXED: Integration with the Impreza theme - broken AJAX pagination for Grid element
• FIXED: Integration with the TheGem theme - missing search results when the “Layout Type” option is set to “Products Grid”
• FIXED: Integration with the Divi theme - mobile overlay not showing up
• FIXED: Stronger sanitization of the details panel output
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.5.10
• UPDATED: Polish translation

1.24.0, May 25, 2023

• ADDED: Integration with the “Minimog” theme
• ADDED: Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are included in the FiboSearch Analytics module
• ADDED: Taking into account a new feature of the dark theme in the Nave theme
• ADDED: Possibility to change the color of a search bar underlay. Only for the Pirx style
• ADDED: New search widget and extended search results for Elementor
• ADDED: TheGem theme - “Header Builder” support
• FIXED: Wrong position of search icons in the history search module
• FIXED: Broken suggestions layout and detailed panel visibility when the “Minimum characters” option is set to less than 1
• FIXED: Compatibility with PHP 8.1
• FIXED: Hide unnecessary modules when constant DGWT_WCAS_ANALYTICS_ONLY_CRITICAL is set to true in the FiboSearch Analytics module
• FIXED: Incorrect display of information about constants on the debug page
• FIXED: Other minor bugs in the FiboSearch Analytics module
• FIXED: Integration with the Astra theme - support for version 4.1.0 of the Astra Addon
• FIXED: Integration with the Minimog theme - wrong position of the search history wrapper
• FIXED: Integration with the Enfold theme - the search engine icon disappears when the page finishes loading
• FIXED: A HTML tag <br> was unnecessarily stripped in the description in the details panel
• FIXED: The voice search feature - overlapping icons and disabling functionality on Safari
• UPDATED: French translation
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.5.8
• TESTS: Two integration tests that check saving phrases in a database table
• TESTS: Fix assertion in “Analytics/Critical searches without result”
• REFACTOR: Change order if set settings defaults. Now the defaults are set after calling the dgwt/wcas/settings filter
• SECURITY: Added escaping for a “Search input placeholder” option

1.23.0, April 05, 2023

• ADDED: Integration with the “Blocksy” theme
• ADDED: Integration with the “Qwery” theme
• ADDED: Integration with the “StoreBiz” theme
• ADDED: Allows the Shop manager role to manage the plugin settings by adding a constant to the wp.config.php file
• ADDED: Allows creating HTML templates instead of displaying simple “No results” message
• IMPROVED: Blocks calculating score if the phrase contains a single character
• FIXED: More accurate calculation of the order of products in search results. The extra score for an exact match of a sequence of words
• FIXED: Storefront theme - not working focus event while using a mobile overlay for iPhone devices
• FIXED: Mobile overlay on iPhone devices - didn't hide search results on a scroll event or after clicking the “done” button
• FIXED: iPhone devices - annoying auto zoom in search input on focus
• FIXED: Search icon mode and search history - a search bar was needlessly concealed on clicking the “Clear” button
• FIXED: Freemius SDK - added submenu slug
• FIXED: Flatsome theme - detecting incompatible settings and disappearing search form on hover
• FIXED: Layout option - hidden triangle icon when a layout is “icon” and style is “Pirx”
• FIXED: Unnecessary AJAX query on the settings page
• TWEAK: Replacing empty href tag with # in Storefront integration because of SEO
• TWEAK: Trivial CSS changes
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK to v2.5.6
• REFACTOR: Forcing mobile overlay breakpoint and in layout breakpoint in theme integrations
• REFACTOR: Variables names in the method Helpers::calcScore()

1.22.3, January 30, 2023

• FIXED: Some prices were not aligned properly

1.22.0, January 30, 2023

• ADDED: New feature - Search history. The current search history is presented when the user clicked/taped on the search bar, but hasn't yet typed the query.
• ADDED: FiboSearch Analytics - New widget in WordPress Dashboard with critical searches without result
• ADDED: Integration with Essentials theme
• ADDED: Make UI_FIXER object as global object
• ADDED: Ability to search for vendors by description and city
• ADDED: Ability to exclude critical phrases in the Analytics module
• ADDED: Custom JavaScript events during the search process
• ADDED: Ability to export search analytics data as CSV files
• FIXED: Integration with Flatsome theme - focus event didn't work with a search bar
• FIXED: Integration with WooCommerce Product Filter by WooBeWoo - “Undefined array key 'query'” notice
• FIXED: Integration with Jet Smart Menu - repair duplicated search bars IDs
• FIXED: Integration with Astra theme - support for version 4.0.0
• FIXED: Integration with Astra theme - cannot change the number of products on the cart page
• FIXED: Integration with XStore theme - support for search icon in mobile panel
• FIXED: Compatibility with PHP 8.1
• FIXED: RWD for FiboSearch Settings views including Analytics views
• FIXED: Search bar CSS, especially when Pirx style and Voice Search work together
• FIXED: A user with permission to edit plugin settings cannot see search analytics
• CHANGE: Updated French translation
• CHANGE: Hide the Voice Search icon when a user starts typing
• CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.3
• CHANGE: Remove information that Analytics is a beta feature
• CHANGE: Remove information that Darkened Background is a beta feature
• CHANGE: Set "Pirx" as a default search bar style

1.21.0, November 21, 2022

• ADDED: Integration with Product GTIN (EAN, UPC, ISBN) for WooCommerce plugin
• ADDED: Integration with EAN for WooCommerce plugin
• ADDED: Troubleshooting - checks if products thumbnails need to be regenerated
• FIXED: Missing translation domain in some texts
• FIXED: Support variants of <br> tag in product names in autocomplete
• FIXED: Unable to embed search bar as a widget
• FIXED: Disable voice search for Chrome on iPhone or iPad
• FIXED: Integration with the Astra theme - unclosed <div> tag
• FIXED: Exclude save phrases to analyze when the phrase is 'fibotests' or the user has a specific role.
• FIXED: UI_FIXER: check if event listeners were correctly added to search inputs. If no, reinitiate the search instance
• FIXED: UI_FIXER: rebuild all search bars without correct JS events
• FIXED: Redundant DB queries related to the existence of plugin tables
• CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.2

1.20.0, September 13, 2022

• ADDED: Integration with Woostify theme
• ADDED: Integration with Neve theme
• ADDED: Integration with WP Rocket
• ADDED: Include block sources in the plugin package
• ADDED: Possibility to reset search statistics from the settings page
• ADDED: Support for <sub> element in autocomplete suggestions
• FIXED: Incorrect display of styles with personalization of the search
• FIXED: Wrong settings index in Impreza and Enfold theme
• FIXED: Removed of unnecessary language files
• FIXED: Always set cursor at the end of the input
• FIXED: Incorrect verification if the browser supports speech recognition
• FIXED: FiboSearch Analytics - not working “check” buttons of the latest loading list
• FIXED: Unnecessary options and transients after uninstalling plugin See changelog for all versions.