WP Engine

John Parris

Boost site performance and conversions in minutes with WP Engine’s AI Toolkit. Get easily setup and configured AI-powered search, recommendations, and a vector database to super-charge your site and continuously provide real value without constant intervention. Including products that boost search performance, create tailored user recommendations, and a platform that allows you to build chatbots and other AI-powered products, the WP Engine AI Toolkit is a cutting-edge bundle of innovative, easily configured, self-maintaining AI solutions built to continuously boost your site’s conversions without constant manual intervention. And, it’s controlled right from the platform you are used to! No need for extra vendors or extra costs.With WP Engine’s AI Toolkit, you can access three key products:
Smart Search AI helps convert your website’s most high-intent visitors with more accurate and more relevant search results.
AI-Powered Recommendations, included in Smart Search AI, helps increase engagement and conversions with auto-updating recommendations based only on your site’s content.
Managed Vector Database helps you build your own AI tools with our easily configured and self-maintaining vector database that seamlessly and continuously translates all your WordPress data for AI. We extract, vectorize, and normalize all your WordPress data for AI.

WP Engine AI Toolkit


The simplest solution I've encountered to make search actually work for my small site. With a lot of easily misspelled terms on the site (and my own lack of spelling ability) having a simple solution with fuzzy matching is so worth it. 


Simple and effective


This plugin makes my search results faster and more relevant. It provides relevant results even if I misspell a word. It has a lot of configuration options to let me control the way the results are organized and weighted. It's easy to set up and just works automatically when searches are executed.


I love this plugin

Boost site conversions in just a few clicks with Smart Search AI, AI-Powered Recommendations, and Managed Vector Database.

Scott Reilly

This plugin prevents WordPress from allowing and handling any search requests from the front-end of the site. Specifically, this plugin:
<ul>
<li>Prevents the search form from appearing if the theme uses the standard <code>get_search_form()</code> function to display the search form.</li>
<li>Prevents the search form from appearing if the theme uses a <code>searchform.php</code> template</li>
<li>Prevents the search item from appearing in the admin tool bar when shown on the front-end.</li>
<li>Disables the search widget.
<ul>
<li>Removes the Search widget from the list of available widgets</li>
<li>Deactivates any search widgets currently in use in any sidebars (they are hidden, not deleted; they’ll reappear in their original locations if this plugin gets deactivated)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Disables the search block.
<ul>
<li>Removes the Search block from the list of available blocks</li>
<li>Deactivates any search blocks currently in use, such as in posts or as a widget (they are disabled, not deleted; they’ll reappear if this plugin gets deactivated and the associated placeholder block doesn’t get deleted)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>With or without a search form, the plugin prevents any direct or manual requests by visitors, via either GET or POST requests, from actually returning any search results.</li>
<li>Submitted attempts at a search will be given a 404 File Not Found response, rendered by your site’s 404.php template, if present.</li>
<li>Disables output of <code>SearchAction</code> in SEO schema by the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">Yoast SEO</a> plugin.</li>
</ul>
The plugin only affects search on the front-end of the site. It does not disable searching in the admin section of the site.
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/disable-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/disable-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>

Disable Search


In 2024, numerous bots are crawling sites, generating significant search spam. Generally, site search incurs high costs, primarily because we end up paying for CPU resources consumed by spam.



If site search is not crucial for your website, I recommend activating this plugin.



Thank you, Scott, for maintaining this simple yet effective plugin!


The most effective way to avoid search spam

Disable the built-in front-end search capabilities of WordPress.

WP Engine AI Toolkit vs Disable Search