Free vs Pro: Better Search - WebberZone

Better Search is free to use and replaces WordPress search with relevance-ranked FULLTEXT results right out of the box. The Pro upgrade adds fuzzy matching, a custom search index, multisite cross-site search, and WP-CLI integration for those who need more control.

Free vs Pro

Feature	Free	Pro
Core Search
FULLTEXT relevance-ranked search	✅	✅
Seamless mode (intercepts default WP search)	✅	✅
Search within title, content, excerpt	✅	✅
Search within meta fields, authors, taxonomies, comments	✅	✅
Title / content relevance weight configuration	✅	✅
Excerpt weight in relevance scoring	❌	✅
Boolean search mode	✅	✅
Custom post type support	✅	✅
Profanity filter	✅	✅
AJAX live search (results as you type)	✅	✅
Popular searches heatmap (widget + shortcode)	✅	✅
Custom search results template	✅	✅
Search query tracking (daily and total)	✅	✅
Feature Manager (toggle optional features on/off)	✅	✅
Search Quality & Relevance
Fuzzy / phonetic matching	❌	✅
“Did you mean” spelling suggestions	❌	✅
Search redirects (keyword → destination)	❌	✅
Minimum relevance threshold	❌	✅
Minimum characters before FULLTEXT search (configurable)	❌	✅
Taxonomy weight configuration (categories, tags, precomputed score)	❌	✅
Slug, meta field, author and comment weights	❌	✅
Recency weighting	❌	✅
LIKE fallback when FULLTEXT returns no results	❌	✅
Search post slugs	❌	✅
Cornerstone / pinned posts (fixed top results)	❌	✅
Exclude front page and Posts page from results	❌	✅
Performance & Indexing
MySQL FULLTEXT indexes on `wp_posts`	✅	✅
Internal output caching	✅	✅
Custom high-performance search index table	❌	✅
InnoDB conversion tool with FULLTEXT index rebuild	❌	✅
Scheduled index reconciliation cron job	❌	✅
MySQL `MAX_EXECUTION_TIME` query guard	❌	✅
Integration
Multilingual support (WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress)	✅	✅
REST API search integration	❌	✅
Dashboard search chart with daily drill-down	❌	✅
Multisite
Per-site search	✅	✅
Cross-site search across the entire network	❌	✅
Network admin dashboard and statistics	❌	✅
Developer Tools
WP-CLI commands (search, cache, db, stats, settings, ecsi, status, stopwords)	❌	✅
Abilities API: search ability for AI assistants	✅	✅
Abilities API: popular search terms, spelling suggestions and cache clearing	❌	✅
Support
Community forum	✅	✅
Priority email support	❌	✅

Choosing the Right Plan

All paid plans include the same Pro features. The difference is the number of sites and who you can use them on.

	Pro	Pro Multi	Agency
All Pro features	✅	✅	✅
Number of sites	1 site	5 to unlimited	Unlimited
Use on client sites	❌	❌	✅
Priority email support	✅	✅	✅

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