Comments on: 15 Best WordPress Search Plugins to Improve UX 2021

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:07:59 +0000

Hello,

I have a Real Estate web site. I need for users to be able to search for things like: 3 bedroom house, lakefront, guest cottage, etc.

What do you folks recommend?

Thank you very much,

Best Regards,
Eric

By: Padre Pio

Padre Pio — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:07:24 +0000

This is what I was looking for. Thanks

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:18:50 +0000

In reply to Austin.

Hi Austin – I was actually after something different but noticed your comment and would really appreciate a free licence key if your offer stills stands (please!)? If you could email me one, it’d make my day!

By: Dan Kosmayer

Dan Kosmayer — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:39:02 +0000

Swifttype was $20 a month — now they are a ridiculous $299 per month for the lowest plan — remove this from your list.

By: Augustin

Augustin — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:44:57 +0000

I am trying to add Google Search with the Plugin to my website. I got as far as the step where I am supposed to paste the search engine ID into the WP Google Search’s settings page. My settings page does not seem to have any place where I can do this. Can you tell me where the ID should be pasted and what it is called?

Thanks.
olshoppers.com

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:47:37 +0000

In reply to Editorial Staff.

You’re very welcome!
For me it started as a solution to a frustrating situation that played out like this: In the website I was editing, I wanted to change the text “About the Author” that appeared below my posts – to something more customized (e.g. “About Layman Lab”). It took me too long to hunt in each individual theme file to find out that it was located in the shortcode.php file which was buried in some subfolders.

Now it’s just one search.

If you’d like to play around with the plugin, I’d be happy to send you a free license key (and offer your readers a coupon code as well).

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:00:02 +0000

This is a very helpful list of search options. We have used Google Custom Search on a few of our sites with great results.

There are a bunch of good frontend search plugin options on WordPress, but our problem was not finding an option for backend searches – like when you’re trying to find a specific line of code or snippet in your CSS or PHP files. You know, as an alternative to having to open each css file individually to find it.

We couldn’t find a useable solution, so we built one! Our plugin has been very helpful for speeding up editing – in those instances where you know the line of code, or snippet or string, but don’t know what file it’s hiding in. Now you can search all the theme or plugin files at once. Nice and easy!

If it sounds helpful, please check it out:

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:58:20 +0000

In reply to Austin.

Thanks for bringing this up. We haven’t really heard about many of our users asking for a similar solution but it’s really good to know one is out there!

By: VagabondLabs

VagabondLabs — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 07:59:00 +0000

Hello guys,

I see you are looking for best search plugins eh? Well we just
finished and released our plugin called Adminyo – Intelligent WP Admin
and it features a quick search , that shows your results while you are
typing. From there you can instantly go to edit or view page..or even
pin the link to dashboard.

It also includes other nice features that will help you work faster and easyer inside WP Admin.

For more informations visit please http://www.bit.do/adminyo

By: Fahad M Rafiq

Fahad M Rafiq — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:37:00 +0000

In reply to Brian H.

Sure, Thanks Brian!

By: Brian H

Brian H — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:53:00 +0000

In reply to Fahad M Rafiq.

Hi Fahad,

I have seen a few of your comments here adding extra value to our readers, which is why I would like to invite you to contribute here.

If this is something of interest to you contact me at brian [at] 85ideas.com

By: Fahad M Rafiq

Fahad M Rafiq — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:23:00 +0000

Cloudways listed these 10 search plugins as a recommendation of WordPress:

1. Relevanssi
2. Search Everything
3. Better Search
4. Custom Search
5. WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin
6. Dave’s WordPress Live Search
7. WooCommerce Predictive Search
8. SearchWP
9. Swiftype Search
10. Yolink