Discover Relevant Search Results
Better Search
>5,000
Active Installs
4.4/5
Average Rating
>300k
Downloads
Features Overview
Improve the default WordPress search with more relevant results
Seamless integration
Cleanly integrates with any WordPress theme by replacing the default WordPress search
Advanced search results page for additional features
Override the search results page within your WordPress theme
Search everything
Find relevant results by matching the post title and content
Optionally search excerpts, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, meta fields, authors and comments
Exclude posts from the search results by ID or category
Track what your visitors are searching
View the popular search terms in your admin area
Optionally, display them in the front end of your site
Protect visitor privacy. Tracking is completely anonymous
Additional Features and Benefits
If you prefer more control over where the plugin appears on your site, then we have you covered.
Shortcodes
Display popular search terms or the search form anywhere within your post or page content with shortcodes.
Custom CSS Styles
You can easily change the display of the search results by using your custom styles.
Relevance-based search results
Search results are automatically sorted by relevance. You can also turn off relevance-based searching, in which case results are sorted by date.
Customisable output
Better_Search_Query lets you build a custom template to display search results.
Profanity filter
Customize the list of stop words that will automatically be filtered out of search queries.
Widget
Display the popular search terms in your sidebar or footer. If your theme supports it, then just drag and drop the widget.
Admin interface
Better Search lets you view popular search terms in a clean, searchable table.
Fine-tune the results
Change the weighting of the post title and content. Turn on BOOLEAN search to override the default NATURAL LANGUAGE search of MySQL.
Speedy
The built-in caching system will display your search results quickly and efficiently. Don’t forget to turn it on!
Developer friendly
Better Search has tonnes of actions, filters, and smart coding, making it a developer-friendly plugin.
Pricing
Better Search Pro plans that scale with you.
1 active site
Seamless integration
Natural language search
Track and display popular searches
Search everything except the post slug
Advanced search form
Inbuilt caching
WordPress.org Forum support
Everything in Basic
1 active site
Search post slug/name
Fuzzy searches
Minimum relevance threshold
REST API support
Direct email support
Everything in Pro
Multisite search
Discounted pricing for 5 to unlimited sites
Multisite activation and license handling
Direct email support
Everything in Pro Multi
Unlimited active sites
Use on client sites
Priority email support
Backed by a 14-day refund policy
If our plugin doesn’t work as promised, you’re covered by our 14-day refund policy and can request a refund. Read about our policy here.
All pricing excludes VAT and is paid annually. You can purchase the plugin in USD, GBP, or EUR – look for the little dropdown in the bottom right of the purchase screen. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time. Purchase and License handling powered by Freemius.
What Our Customers Say
Better Search has been downloaded over 300k times and is used on over 5,000 WordPress sites
And the 4.4/5 stars rating tells you how much our users love this plugin, and here’s some of what they are saying…