Change the way your WordPress website prioritizes search results, letting your users automatically train your website, teaching it which results are the most relevant for each search.
Features
Result Pinning
For each search you can set one result to be pinned to the top of the results list, so that regardless of result popularity or custom ordering, that result will be the first one displayed.
Search Words Highlighting
Choose a highlight colour and highlight the words users have searched for on the search results page. If a highlighted word does not appear in the excerpt it will attempt to create a better excerpt with the first searched word.
Custom Result Ordering
As well as ordering the first five results by popularity, you can choose to have results ordered by either:
- Date created
- Date modified
- Title
Advanced Search Form and Result Filtering
Display an advanced search form on the search results page to let users filter results by post type, post categories and tags.
Related Searches
If the current search has zero results you can display links to searches that look similar, which other users have tried.
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 3.5 or greater
- PHP version 5.3.0 or greater
- MySQL version 5.0 or greater
Automatic installation
The easiest way to install Search Results Optimizer is to log into your WordPress dashboard, go to the Plugins page and click "Add New". In the search field type "Search Results Optimizer" and click the search button. Once you've found the plugin click "Install Now".
Manual installation
To install Search Results Optimizer manually you need to download the newest version and transfer it to your website via FTP. For more information on this see the WordPress guide to
Managing Plugins.
If on the off-chance you do encounter issues with the shop/category pages after an update you simply need to flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting 'save'. That should return things to normal.
Activation
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in the WordPress dashboard.