Enterprise WordPress search plugin. Post types Search, WooCommerce Search, Live Search, Filters, Facets, Recommendations.

WPSOLR

<p>WPSOLR replaces WordPress native search with fast, scalable AI and keyword search on your server.</p>
<p>Connect WordPress to modern search engines like Weaviate, Vespa.ai, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Apache Solr using Docker.</p>
<p>Features include instant search results, autocomplete suggestions, faceted navigation, and content recommendations—on the frontend and in the WordPress admin.</p>
<ul>
<li>No more slow MySQL LIKE queries</li>
<li>Built for large content sites, WooCommerce stores, and communities</li>
<li>Works with AI, vector, hybrid, and keyword search engines</li>
</ul>
<p>See WPSOLR in action: search 700,000 WordPress posts in real time.<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sttS9fD6DnE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>Core features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Replaces WordPress search and archive queries (frontend & backend)</li>
<li>Adds real-time search suggestions inside search bars</li>
<li>Adds faceted search widgets (filters)</li>
<li>Adds More-Like-This recommendation widgets on the frontend</li>
</ul>
<h3>Option 1 – Install your own search engine with Docker</h3>
<p>Run your <a href="https://github.com/eostis-sarl/wpsolr-stacks" rel="nofollow ugc">search stack</a> on-premise using Docker:</p>
<ul>
<li>Docker search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/how-to-easily-configure-postgresql-ai-search-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">PostgreSQL with Timescale extensions</a> (keyword BM25 / hybrid / vector)</li>
<li>Docker search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/how-to-easily-configure-opensearch-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenSearch</a> (keyword / hybrid / vector)</li>
<li>Docker search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/how-to-easily-configure-weaviate-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Weaviate</a>  (keyword / hybrid / vector)</li>
<li>Docker search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/how-to-easily-configure-vespa-ai-search-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Vespa.ai</a> (keyword / hybrid / vector)</li>
<li>Docker search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/how-to-easily-configure-elasticsearch-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Elasticsearch</a> (keywords)</li>
<li>Docker search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/how-to-easily-configure-solr-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Apache Solr</a> (keywords)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Option 2 – Cloudways users</h3>
<p>Use Cloudways’ pre-installed search Elasticsearch or OpenSearch services:</p>
<ul>
<li>Cloudways WordPress search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/guide/configuration-step-by-step-schematic/configure-your-indexes/0-connect-your-indexes/create-an-elasticsearch-index/create-a-cloudways-elasticsearch-index/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenSearch</a> (keywords)</li>
<li>Cloudways WordPress search for <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/guide/configuration-step-by-step-schematic/configure-your-indexes/0-connect-your-indexes/create-an-elasticsearch-index/create-a-cloudways-elasticsearch-index/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Elasticsearch</a> (keywords)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Option 3 – Use the setup wizard (no Docker required)</h3>
<p>If you cannot install Docker, our guided wizard configures WordPress search automatically using:</p>
<ul>
<li>A free trial Apache Solr index hosted by <a href="https://opensolr.com/faq/view/billing/34/solr-cloud-free-membership" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenSolr</a></li>
<li>AJAX search with instant results</li>
<li>Autocomplete and suggestions</li>
<li>Facets (filters)</li>
<li>Related content recommendations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Free vs Enterprise</h3>
<h4>Free version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Replace WordPress search (frontend & backend)</li>
<li>Keyword search with Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch</li>
<li>AI / vector search with Weaviate and Vespa.ai</li>
<li>Search suggestions & autocomplete</li>
<li>Faceted search widgets</li>
<li>More-Like-This recommendations</li>
<li>Docker & Cloudways support</li>
</ul>
<h4>WPSOLR Enterprise</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi media file chunking, indexing, citations in suggestions with WPSOLR Parse, <a href="https://www.llamaindex.ai/" rel="nofollow ugc">LlamaIndex</a>, <a href="https://unstructured.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Unstructured</a></li>
<li>WooCommerce advanced search (prices, stock, variations, orders, coupons)</li>
<li>AI-powered vector & hybrid search at scale</li>
<li>Multiple search engines at the same time</li>
<li>AI personalization (Algolia AI, Google Retail)</li>
<li>AI recommendations (Algolia Recommend, Amazon Personalize, Recombee)</li>
<li>AI connectors for RAG & Chatbots (N8N, AWS S3/SQS, GCP CloudStorage/PubSub/DataFlow, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Ray)</li>
<li>Advanced facets (range, sliders, hierarchy, color, date)</li>
<li>ACF custom fields as facets</li>
<li>Enterprise hosting providers & SLA support<br />
Visit us to discover <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">more features</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Videos – WPSOLR Enterprise</h3>
<p>Searching 180,000 Products in WooCommerce<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vwvIrNPm_jY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Searching 200,000 Posts in a WordPress News Site<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZRJhXbOIxiw?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Searching 3 million topics in bbPress<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f2hSN1gCyvA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Destination Site Search with Keyword Autocompletion and Infinite Load<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/06oYnIA9tmA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Multilingual vector search with Weaviate and Cohere<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PwmI9VHJSkg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>10× faster suggestions with Elasticsearch<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/plJ3Sv4ypUI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>WooCommerce suggestions in 250 ms (100k products)<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YVB3eFG5nLY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>WooCommerce suggestions in 195 ms (873 products)<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ARj32Ltcwb0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Image search in WordPress media with Weaviate<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6hocA93nqjg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>


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