Better Search replaces the default WordPress search with a better search engine that gives contextual results sorted by relevance.

Ajay

WebberZone

<p>Supercharge your WordPress site search with <strong><a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/better-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Search</a></strong> – a powerful replacement for the default WordPress search engine that delivers more relevant results and a richer search experience.</p>
<p>Better Search gives you complete control over your site’s search results. Fine-tune relevance, search across different fields and post types, track popular queries, and customise the output — all without writing a single line of code.</p>
<p>Make your search more intuitive and engaging with a search heatmap of popular queries, display results as users type with AJAX Live Search, and tailor the look to your theme with custom templates and styles.</p>
<p>Built with performance in mind, Better Search includes its own caching system and works smoothly with popular caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. It also features a profanity filter and is translation-ready for global use.</p>
<h3>Awesome features in Better Search:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic</strong>: Just activate the plugin and enjoy better search results right away</li>
<li><strong>Seamless integration</strong>: No need to edit any code or create custom search templates</li>
<li><strong>Relevance</strong>: Sort the results by relevance or date, and assign different weights to title and content</li>
<li><strong>Control the results</strong>: Search within title, content, excerpt, meta fields, authors, tags and other taxonomies and comments</li>
<li><strong>Popular searches</strong>: Show a heatmap of the most popular searches on your site, either as a widget or a shortcode</li>
<li><strong>AJAX Live Search</strong>: Show search results as you type in any search form on your site</li>
<li><strong>Customisation</strong>: Use your own template file and CSS styles for the ultimate look and feel</li>
<li><strong>Supports cache plugins</strong>: Works seamlessly with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache and W3 Total Cache</li>
<li><strong>Profanity filter</strong>: Filter out any words that you don’t want to appear in search queries</li>
<li><strong>Translation ready</strong>: Use the plugin in any language</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to improve your site search, download Better Search today and experience the difference for yourself.</p>
<h3>Features in Better Search Pro</h3>
<p><a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/better-search/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Better Search Pro</strong></a> gives you even more control and performance:</p>
<ul>
<li>🗄️ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/efficient-content-storage-and-indexing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Efficient Content Storage and Indexing</a></li>
<li>🔍 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/multisite-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multisite Search</a></li>
<li>✨ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/fuzzy-matches/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fuzzy Matches</a></li>
<li>🎯 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#minimum-relevance-percentage-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Relevance Threshold</a></li>
<li>🔗 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#search-post-slug-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Search Post Slugs</a></li>
<li>⚙️ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-rest-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API Integration</a></li>
<li>🔄 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#enable-like-fallback-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">LIKE Fallback Search</a></li>
<li>⚖️ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#post-excerpt-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Relevance Weighting</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>MySQL FULLTEXT indices</h3>
<p>Better Search adds the following MySQL FULLTEXT indices to the <code>wp_posts</code> table:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>post_content</code></li>
<li><code>post_title</code></li>
<li><code>(post_title, post_content)</code></li>
</ul>
<p>On multisite, these are added to each blog upon activation. These indices power the relevance-based search and are required for full functionality.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>Better Search is also available on <a href="https://github.com/WebberZone/better-search" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. If you’ve got some cool feature you’d like to implement into the plugin or a bug you’ve been able to fix, consider forking the project and sending me a pull request.</p>
<h3>Plugins by WebberZone</h3>
<p>Better Search is one of the many plugins developed by WebberZone. Check out our other plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/" rel="ugc">Contextual Related Posts</a> – Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/webberzone-link-warnings/" rel="ugc">WebberZone Link Warnings</a> – Add accessible warnings for external links and target=”_blank” links</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-10/" rel="ugc">Top 10</a> – Track daily and total visits to your blog posts and display the popular and trending posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/knowledgebase/" rel="ugc">Knowledge Base</a> – Create a knowledge base or FAQ section on your WordPress site</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-all/" rel="ugc">WebberZone Snippetz</a> – The ultimate snippet manager for WordPress to create and manage custom HTML, CSS or JS code snippets</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoclose/" rel="ugc">Auto-Close</a> – Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks and manage revisions on your WordPress site</li>
</ul>


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