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.
Shortcode
Display the popular search terms anywhere within your post or page content with a simple shortcode with its own set of arguments
Custom CSS Styles
You can easily change the display of the search results by using your own custom styles
Relevance based search results
Search results are automatically sorted by relevance. You can also turn off relevancy based searching, in which case, results are sorted by date
Customisable output
Better_Search_Query allows you to build a custom template to display the search results
Profanity filter
Customise 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 allows you to view the popular search terms in a clean, searchable tabular format
Fine-tune the results
Change weighting of post title and post content. Turn on BOOLEAN search to override the default NATURAL LANGUAGE search of mySQL
Speedy
The in-built 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
What Our Customers Say
Better Search has been downloaded over 200k times and is used on over 7,000 WordPress sites
And, the 4.5 out of 5 stars rating tells you how much our users love this plugin and here’s some of what they are saying…