Ajax search pro is the best live search engine plugin for WordPress. Highly customizable, with many features and options, giving the best results possible! Replace the WordPress search bar with a better looking, more efficient search engine. Ajax Search Pro Looking for a better WordPress search? Check out this search plugins features, including checkbox, dropdown, radio button category filters and custom field (post meta) filters as well. Shortcodes and widgets compatible with any builder, such as: Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder, Visual Composer, Divi Page Builder, Gutenberg and others.. Ajax Search Pro can act as an Elementor Live Posts and Products widget filter. Building a custom results page via Elementor is also supported.

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress – A Live WordPress search and filter plugin

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress was designed to boost the user search experience to the maximum. It provides a live ajax search, which makes the wordpress search experience more confortable. The results are presented with images (if any found), so they look more attractive and less flat. The search works with mobile devices, let it be Android or IOS powered. The search can override the default wordpress search results – so the ajax functionality is extended – replace your default theme search with only a click of a button. The search can return posts, pages, any custom post types (like WooCommerce products, BBPress forums, topics, replies), categories, custom taxonomy terms (like product categories, portfolio tags), users, BudddyPress groups and BuddyPress activities as results. Searching media attachments, including their content is also possible – for PDF, CSV, TXT, RTF and Office documents, Excel and Powerpoint files. The backend offers hundreds of options for those, who like to customize the search to the maximum. Many features were implemented based on customer feedbacks, and even more coming soon.

Powerful Taxonomy and Custom field (post meta) search filters

The search features an easy to use drag and drop style taxonomy and custom field filter builder. Checkbox, radio, select dropdown, mutliselect and date filter types are all supported. Fully intuitive editor for all major and minor details – including ordering, selected items, parent-child relationships, layout modes and connection logics as well. Over 400 other back-end options will give you the tool to make a fully functional and useful wordpress search form for your website.

FAQ

• Will the plugin work with the * theme? Yes it will. The plugin is theme independent.
• Is it compatible with Elementor, Divi Page builder, WPBakery Page builder etc..? Yes it is. The plugin shortcodes can be used within the corresponding page builder element.
• Will it work on a multisite blog? Yes it will.
• Can it replace my default theme search bar automatically? Yes it can! You can select which search instance you want to display instead of the default theme search bar.
• Can I search custom post types, like WooCommerce/Jigoshop products? Yes you can!
• Can I search buddypress groups/activity-feed/users? Yes you can!
• Can the plugin return categories or custom taxonomy terms as results? Yes it can!
• Will it work with bigger databases, like 25000+ records? Yes it will. The search speed only depends on your server speed.
• Does it support sites with RTL? Yes it does!
• Will it display images, that are not hosted on my server? Yes it will. In case of issues, read this knowledge base article.
• Is support provided, if so where can I get supported? Yes, this item is supported! Please read the documentation and the knowledge base first. Many questions are answered there.
• Can I search attachments and their contents on my server? Yes, indexing and searching Text, PDF, RTF, CSV, Office docx, Excel and Powerpoint file contents is possible. More information in Attachment content search documentation.

Check the full changelog here.

Features

• 400+ possible options on admin panel
• 70+ pre-defined fully customisable themes
• Vertical / Horizontal / Polaroid and Isotopic styled results list
• Multiple search plugins on one page – You can configure all of them separately!
• Google Keyword Suggestions on no results, witch a language selector
• Responsive width
• Search caching & image precaching for better performace
• Search in public custom fields is now possible!
• 2 New widgets: Latest searched keywords and Top searched keywords! – You can setup a sidebar widget of the latest/top used keywords and even trigger a search by clicking on them!
• Results filtering by: categories, terms, tags, custom fields, date
• Search relevance options with adjustable weight values
• Retina ready SVG icons
• WPML support
• Polylang support
• qTranslate(x) support
• Dynamic string translations via Polylang or WPML string translations
• .pot file included for a fully translatable Admin Section
• Google Analytics Integration module
• Scroll-to-results option
• Keyboard navigation for vertical results
• Multiple instances of search boxes are now possible
• Better preview
• Shortcode buttons on the Post editor
• Better image options and image handling
• Hooks – Filters & Actions for developers
• For the full list see the changelog down below!
• Search statistics page
• Default search text
• Intelligent image parsing (possible from post featured image, post content, post excerpt, possible to set priorities as well)
• Custom Post Types support – You can select which post types do you want to search! Tested with BBPress!
• Font, color, border, box shadow options
• Keyword Highlighting in search results
• Works in templates and in post and pages as well
• Search widget also included
• Preview window on the admin page
• Mobile support
• Frontend Search options popup
• Possible to search in Posts, Pages and Products (WooCommerce, Jigoshop, WP-ecommerce etc..)
• Image caching for bandwidth saving
• Very easy installation and set up
• Powerful api for controlling the search from other frontend applications
• jQuery powered, for the best possible compatibility
• Show more results link below the search box
• WordPress 3.5+ compatibility!
• Multisite support!
• Search autocomplete with search statistics or google keywords!
• Error checking module
• Shortcodes can be executed in search results
• Search result content HTML tag stripping is possible
• Category selectors on the frontend – It’s possible to filter the posts by categories
• You can select custom fields as post title and description
• Post grouping by category or post type!
• Search in comments
• It’s possible to exclude categories or posts from the search!
• Stable, custom built jQuery for maximum compatibility
• Shortcodes strippable/executable in results
• Supports pages with categories/taxonomies
• PeepSo Groups & Group activities search
• Index table search capabilities:
  • Indexing titles, content, exceprt, authors, custom fields, categoires, tags etc…
  • Indexing shortcodes content
• Compatible with PODs – including indexing PODs custom table meta fields
• Compatible Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin’s:
  • Text field
  • Textarea field
  • Date field
  • Number field
  • Email field
  • WYSIWYG editor field