Better Search - Relevant search results for WordPress

Supercharge your WordPress site search with Better Search – a powerful replacement for the default WordPress search engine that delivers more relevant results and a richer search experience. Better Search gives you complete control over your site’s search results. Fine-tune relevance, search across different fields and post types, track popular queries, and customise the output — all without writing a single line of code. Make your search more intuitive and engaging with a search heatmap of popular queries, display results as users type with AJAX Live Search, and tailor the look to your theme with custom templates and styles. Built with performance in mind, Better Search includes its own caching system and works smoothly with popular caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. It also features a profanity filter and is translation-ready for global use. Here are some of the main features of Better Search:

• Automatic: Just activate the plugin and enjoy better search results right away
• Seamless integration: No need to edit any code or create custom search templates
• Relevance: Sort the results by relevance or date, and assign different weights to title and content
• Control the results: Search within title, content, excerpt, meta fields, authors, tags and other taxonomies and comments
• Popular searches: Show a heatmap of the most popular searches on your site, either as a widget or a shortcode
• AJAX Live Search: Show search results as you type in any search form on your site
• Customisation: Use your own template file and CSS styles for the ultimate look and feel
• Supports cache plugins: Works seamlessly with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache and W3 Total Cache
• Profanity filter: Filter out any words that you don't want to appear in search queries
• Translation ready: Use the plugin in any language

If you want to improve your site search, download Better Search today and experience the difference for yourself. Features in Better Search Pro Better Search Pro gives you even more control and performance:

• 🔍 Multisite Search
• ✨ Fuzzy Matches
• 🎯 Relevance Threshold
• 🔗 Search Post Slugs
• ⚙️ REST API Integration

MySQL FULLTEXT indices Better Search adds the following MySQL FULLTEXT indices to the wp_posts table:

• post_content
• post_title
• (post_title, post_content)

On multisite, these are added to each blog upon activation. These indices power the relevance-based search and are required for full functionality. 贡献 Better Search is also available on Github. If you've got some cool feature you'd like to implement into the plugin or a bug you've been able to fix, consider forking the project and sending me a pull request. Plugins by WebberZone Better Search is one of the many plugins developed by WebberZone. Check out our other plugins:

• Contextual Related Posts - Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed
• Top 10 - Track daily and total visits to your blog posts and display the popular and trending posts
• Knowledge Base - Create a knowledge base or FAQ section on your WordPress site
• WebberZone Snippetz - The ultimate snippet manager for WordPress to create and manage custom HTML, CSS or JS code snippets
• Auto-Close - Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks and manage revisions on your WordPress site

WordPress install

1. Navigate to Plugins within your WordPress Admin Area.
2. Click "Add new" and enter "Better Search" in the search box.
3. Find the plugin in the list (usually the first result) and click "Install Now".

Manual install

1. Download the plugin
2. Extract the contents of better-search.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called better-search.
3. Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
4. Goto Settings > Better Search to configure

4.1.3

• Modifications:
• Moved Freemius SDK to vendor folder.
• Relevance score in the template is hidden when there is no score for the post.
• Bug fixes:
• Fix the minimum characters length setting.
• Fixed DOMNodeInserted deprecated error in Live Search.
• Fixed edge case issue where settings are not initialized when using multisite resulting in type errors.

4.1.2

• Features:
• Added SQL injection detection for search terms.
• New setting to set the minimum characters required for a fulltext search.
• Enhancements:
• Live Search enhancements:
• Added caching to improve performance.
• Improved accessibility and keyboard navigation.
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed an issue where post score was not being displayed.
• Better Search form post type correctly uses post_type instead of post_types for better compatibility.
• Fixed issue with search results not loading properly when Fuzzy Search is enabled and the search term is less than four characters.
• Fixed issue with ordering by date didn't work when using Fuzzy Search.

4.1.1

• Bug fixes:
• Fixed an issue where shortcode attributes were not properly sanitized.

4.1.0 Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/better-search-v4-1-0/

• Features:
• Better Search now loads globally and can be accessed using better_search().
• Modifications:
• Query improvements for better compatibility with Better Search Pro.
• Improved accessibility of live search results particularly better keyboard navigation.
• [Pro] Multisite search now respects the settings of each site.
• [Pro] Better Fuzzy search compatibility with multisite search.
• [Pro] Better compatibility with PolyLang when using Multisite search. However, PolyLang must be set up exactly the same on all sites of the multisite setup.
• Bug fixes:
• [Pro] Fixed issues with permalinks and titles not loading properly when Multisite search is enabled.
• [Pro] Fixed Multisite search when Seamless Mode is off.
• [Pro] Fixed bugs with Fuzzy Search query in some cases.

For previous changelog entries, please refer to the separate changelog.txt file or Github Releases page