Self-hosted WordPress search with relevant results, live AJAX search, WooCommerce support, multilingual indexing, and privacy-safe analytics.

Khurram Shehzad

khurram.shehzad

Softlinkster Semantic Search is a powerful self-hosted search plugin for WordPress. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, all processing happens on your server — no external API calls, and no data leaving your site.
<h4>Core Features</h4>
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<li>BM25 Ranking — Industry-standard text relevance scoring with TF-IDF weighting.</li>
<li>Live AJAX Search — Instant search dropdown with thumbnails, prices, keyboard navigation, and accessibility.</li>
<li>Faceted Filtering — Filter results by category, tag, post type, price range, stock status, and product attributes.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Integration — Search products by SKU, attributes, variations; display prices and ratings in results.</li>
<li>Multilingual Support — 10 language processors (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, CJK, and more).</li>
<li>Search Analytics — Top queries, zero-result queries, CTR, click tracking, and CSV export.</li>
<li>Did You Mean — Automatic spell correction with clickable suggestions.</li>
<li>Zero-Result Fallback — Show popular content, recent posts, and trending queries when no results match.</li>
<li>Rich Result Cards — Thumbnails, excerpts, prices, star ratings, and post type badges.</li>
<li>Privacy-First — GDPR-compliant with anonymized session tracking, data export, and erasure.</li>
<li>WP-CLI Commands — Index, reindex, compute IDF stats, export analytics, and diagnose.</li>
<li>Theme-Aware Search UI — Search results, zero-result screens, and live search styling adapt to the active theme for readable output.</li>
<li>Classic Widget Support — Add the search form to widget areas in traditional WordPress themes.</li>
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<h4>Search Modes</h4>
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<li>BM25 — Pure text relevance scoring for blazing fast, highly accurate local searches.</li>
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