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 2025, 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.

1.34.0, August 3, 2026

• FIXED: Enabling search analytics triggered a PHP notice about WooCommerce translations loading too early (_load_textdomain_just_in_time)
• FIXED: Focus trap in the search history when navigating with the Tab key
• FIXED: WoodMart theme: search bar shrinking in the mobile header
• FIXED: Elementor: typing in the popup search no longer requires clicking the search bar again
• SECURITY: XSS vulnerability in search result thumbnails. Low risk: exploitation requires permissions to edit products or product categories (the Shop Manager role or higher).
• SECURITY: Password-protected products and posts are no longer returned in search results. Thanks to Duy Tran for the responsible disclosure.
• UPDATED: The minimum required WordPress version is now 6.5
• UPDATED: Compatibility of the search blocks with the iframe block editor (block API v3)
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.33.0, April 27, 2026

• ADDED: JetSmartFilters plugin: support for custom queries
• ADDED: FiboSearch 2.0 early access teaser in admin settings
• ADDED: Link on the settings page to our second plugin, FiboFilters
• FIXED: Prevent unwanted redirection for single product variations
• FIXED: Cached results were missing dynamic pricing
• FIXED: Undefined “items” key warning in DetailsBox AJAX handler
• FIXED: Header JS not loading in the Mobex theme
• FIXED: Hide Categories and Products plugin: integration compatibility with excluded categories methods
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.32.2, January 05, 2026

• ADDED: Integration with the Themify Builder Pro plugin
• ADDED: Integration with the FOX WooCommerce Currency Switcher plugin
• FIXED: Improved visibility checks for products
• FIXED: Added nonce validation in an AJAX action
• FIXED: Improved detection of visibility plugin integrations

1.32.1, December 15, 2025

• FIXED: The Details Panel inside the results wrapper didn’t expand to match the width of the search bar
• FIXED: Improved input handling in the TheGem theme integration
• FIXED: The search didn’t work when the “Load JavaScript deferred” feature in WP Rocket was enabled
• FIXED: No search results appeared when using a multilingual setup and the exact SKU match function was triggered
• REFACTOR: Implemented a more consistent and unified PHP code style

1.32.0, November 17, 2025

• ADDED: Integration with the Bacola theme
• ADDED: Debugger view for active plugin integrations
• ADDED: Helper function for retrieving plugin information
• ADDED: Option to make the search endpoint return only product IDs
• ADDED: Greek language files
• FIXED: Mobile search bar display issue in the WoodMart theme
• FIXED: Compatibility issue in the Bricks theme. The “Enable AJAX add to cart” option now works properly with the FiboSearch details panel.
• FIXED: Search replacement issue on the Flatsome theme 404 page
• FIXED: Support for diacritic and accent characters in search and scoring calculation
• FIXED: Infinite loop on mobile devices caused by an Impreza theme event conflict
• FIXED: Improved CSS styles for the details panel in the Bricks theme
• FIXED: Limited the number of suggestions in preview settings to a maximum of 15 items
• FIXED: Removed unnecessary banners from the settings page
• FIXED: Replaced preloader with the correct search bar or icon in Elementor editor preview
• FIXED: HTML semantic issue in category suggestions caused by an unescaped > character in titles
• FIXED: Deprecated PHP 8.3 and 8.4 warnings
• FIXED: Protection against external CSS styles (e.g., targeting the .woocommerce class) overriding the details panel width
• TWEAK: Added a prefix to the Freemius placeholder class to prevent potential conflicts
• TWEAK: Moved Freemius SDK to the vendor directory
• TWEAK: Cleaned up code style
• TWEAK: Passed additional data to filters to improve customization of search results display
• REFACTOR: Moved indexer logs to a separate database table
• UPDATED: Updating the .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.31.0, July 16, 2025

• ADDED: Info about Elementor widget
• ADDED: Documentation links to Search in SKU and GUID
• ADDED: Filter to conditionally disable analytics recording (e.g. by IP, phrase, lang)
• ADDED: ARIA label on the search icon for accessibility improvement
• ADDED: Option to skip plugin loading on search page by adding the nofibosearch=1 parameter to the URL
• ADDED: Troubleshooting: tests for the minimum required versions of themes and plugins with available integrations
• ADDED: New filter to optionally show the “Products” headline when only product suggestions are returned
• ADDED: Filter to always show the “See all products” button in autocomplete
• ADDED: Filter to disable inline styles from the Personalization class
• ADDED: CSS adjustments in the Uncode theme: centered the search bar in the menu
• FIXED: Managing initial search bar interactivity before the main script has loaded
• FIXED: Incorrect language code in speech recognition
• FIXED: Removed the .woocommerce class from the FiboSearch bar widget
• FIXED: Prevent JS error when getFormWrapper returns undefined or empty jQuery object
• FIXED: Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array (PHP >= 8.1)
• FIXED: Styling issues in the Enfold theme
• FIXED: There was an error in the SQL syntax that occurred during the plugin uninstallation process
• FIXED: Escape double quotes in optionsRaw to prevent JSON.parse errors
• TWEAK: Moved the JS fibosearch/show-details-panel event to just before the preloader is hidden
• TWEAK: Code styling adjustments
• TWEAK: Hiding unwanted banner on settings page
• TWEAK: Optimized database queries
• REFACTOR: Removed the Listeo theme integration
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.30.0, January 27, 2025

• ADDED: Bricks theme integration: support for the “Products” element on the search results page
• ADDED: Bricks theme integration: incorrect order of results on the search results page
• ADDED: Integration with the Discontinued Product Stock Status for WooCommerce plugin
• ADDED: The link to edit the FiboSearch bar in Customizer
• ADDED: The x button was added to the review request notice
• FIXED: Missing data in the Details Panel for product variations
• FIXED: Resolved an error when attempting to insert FiboSearch blocks in the block editor
• FIXED: Eliminated duplicate search results in autocomplete
• FIXED: Enabled searching for products whose variations are all out of stock but have the “allow backorders” status
• FIXED: WCAG: “Links do not have a discernible name”
• FIXED: WPML integration: no results when the “use translation if available or fallback to default language” option is used
• FIXED: Flatsome theme integration: can’t search in the mobile overlay view when search is activated from the mobile menu
• FIXED: Incorrect display of the FiboSearch form when it is embedded in the shop page description
• FIXED: Mobile search in the menu does not work when the Divi Mobile plugin is active
• FIXED: Unnecessary header “Search results for...” when there are no results for post types other than products
• FIXED: Google PageSpeed Insights: avoid non-composited animations
• FIXED: Search icon padding when the search icon is a part of the main menu
• TWEAK: Theme integration is not loaded when the minimal version condition is not met
• TWEAK: Improved clearing of plugin data on uninstall
• TWEAK: Hiding unwanted banner on the settings page
• TWEAK: Remove the “(beta)” suffix from the “User search history” option
• REFACTOR: Remove the “Grouped results” option
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.29.0, October 29, 2024

• ADDED: Integration with the Listeo theme
• ADDED: New troubleshooting test: warning when the 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
• 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 the “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, post, page, 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 theme: cannot change the 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 in the header
• TWEAK: Removed OPcache invalidation for the shortcode template file
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

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 theme integration
• FIXED: Missing filters from the 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 Blocksy 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

1.26.1, October 19, 2023

• FIXED: Details Panel: wrong HTML format of the stock status element See changelog for all versions.