contexa

<h4>WooCommerce’s Default Search Costs You Sales</h4>
Your customers search for “blue running shoes” and get irrelevant results. They search “iphne case” with a typo and get nothing. 80% of shoppers leave after a bad search experience — and WooCommerce’s built-in search only matches exact title keywords.
Contexa fixes this. It understands what your customers mean, not just what they type.
<h4>How Contexa Is Different</h4>
<ul>
<li>AI-Powered Semantic Search — Understands intent, not just keywords. “Laptop bag” finds “notebook carrying case” too</li>
<li>Typo Tolerance — “snekers” still finds sneakers. Works across 100+ languages including Hebrew, Arabic, and English</li>
<li>Instant Autocomplete — Suggestions appear as customers type, based on your store’s actual search history</li>
<li>Sub-2-Second Results — Direct API with client-side rendering. No server load on your WordPress hosting</li>
<li>5 Recommendation Engines — Similar products, trending, personalized, frequently bought together, and cart-based upsells</li>
<li>AJAX Add to Cart — Customers add to cart without page refresh, with quantity selectors</li>
<li>5 Visual Templates — Classic, minimal, shadow, bordered, and gradient styles in list or grid layouts</li>
<li>WooCommerce Native — Automatic currency detection, stock status, and product sync</li>
<li>WPML Support — Full multilingual search with language-specific content sync</li>
<li>Content Search — Search blog posts, pages, and custom post types alongside products</li>
<li>Order Tracking — Track which searches lead to purchases. See your search-driven revenue</li>
<li>Easy Setup — Install, enter API key, sync products. Working search in under 5 minutes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Search Shortcode</h4>
Add AI search to any page: 
 [contexa_search layout=”list” columns=”4″ show_description=”yes” show_price=”yes” results_per_page=”12″ template=”1″]
Available options: 
– <code>placeholder</code> – Search input placeholder text (default: “Search for products…”) 
– <code>button_text</code> – Search button text (default: “Search”) 
– <code>layout</code> – Display layout: list or grid (default: list) 
– <code>columns</code> – Number of grid columns when layout=”grid” (default: 4) 
– <code>show_price</code> – Display product prices: yes/no (default: yes) 
– <code>show_description</code> – Display product descriptions: yes/no (default: yes) 
– <code>results_per_page</code> – Maximum results to display (default: 12) 
– <code>template</code> – Visual template style 1-5 (default: 1)
Template Styles: 
1. Classic Grid (default) – Traditional cards with hover lift effect 
2. Minimal Clean – Borderless design with subtle hover backgrounds 
3. Card with Shadow – Rounded cards with elegant shadow effects 
4. Modern Bordered – Bold black borders with inverted hover state 
5. Colorful Gradient – Purple gradient background with white text
Examples: 
 `
Basic search (list layout, default template)
[contexa_search]
List layout with classic template
[contexa_search layout=”list” template=”1″]
Grid layout with 3 columns and minimal template
[contexa_search layout=”grid” columns=”3″ template=”2″]
Grid with modern bordered template, no descriptions
[contexa_search layout=”grid” template=”4″ show_description=”no”]
List with colorful gradient template and 20 results
[contexa_search layout=”list” template=”5″ results_per_page=”20″]
Custom placeholder and button text
[contexa_search placeholder=”What are you looking for?” button_text=”Find Products”] 
 `
<h4>Recommendations Shortcodes</h4>
Display smart product recommendations with AJAX add to cart functionality:
Similar Products (product page recommendations): 
 [contexa_similar product_id=”123″ title=”You May Also Like” columns=”4″ limit=”8″]
Trending Products: 
 [contexa_trending title=”Trending Now” columns=”4″ limit=”8″]
Personalized Recommendations (based on visitor behavior): 
 [contexa_personalized title=”Recommended For You” columns=”4″ limit=”8″]
Frequently Bought Together: 
 [contexa_frequently_together product_id=”123″ title=”Frequently Bought Together” columns=”4″ limit=”4″]
Cart-Based Recommendations: 
 [contexa_cart_based title=”Complete Your Purchase” columns=”4″ limit=”4″]
All recommendation shortcodes include: 
– AJAX add to cart with +/- quantity selectors 
– Click tracking for analytics 
– Automatic stock status detection 
– Responsive grid layouts
Available parameters: 
– <code>title</code> – Section heading (optional) 
– <code>columns</code> – Number of columns for grid display (default: 4) 
– <code>limit</code> – Maximum number of products to display (default: 8) 
– <code>show_price</code> – Display product prices: yes/no (default: yes) 
– <code>show_add_to_cart</code> – Display add to cart with quantity selector: yes/no (default: yes)
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>A Contexa.co API key (free trial available)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy & Data Collection</h3>
Contexa AI Search connects to external Contexa.co services to provide AI-powered search and recommendations. By using this plugin, you acknowledge that data will be sent to Contexa.co for processing.
<h4>Third-Party Service</h4>
<ul>
<li>Service: Contexa.co – AI Search Platform</li>
<li>Service URL: https://contexa.co</li>
<li>API Endpoint: https://api.contexa.co</li>
<li>SDK URL: https://api.contexa.co/sdk/contexa-sdk.js</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://contexa.co/terms-of-service</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://contexa.co/privacy-policy</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Sent to Contexa.co</h4>
Product Catalog Data (sent during sync): 
* Product names, descriptions, and excerpts 
* Product prices, SKUs, and categories 
* Product images and URLs 
* Product tags and attributes 
* Blog posts and pages (if Content Sync is enabled)
Search & Interaction Data (sent during usage): 
* Search queries entered by visitors 
* Search results clicked by visitors 
* Products added to cart 
* Products removed from cart 
* Completed orders (product IDs, quantities, prices)
Visitor Identification: 
* Anonymous visitor ID (stored in <code>contexa_visitor_id</code> cookie) 
* No personally identifiable information (PII) is collected 
* Visitor IDs are used to track behavior across sessions for analytics
<h4>User Controls</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tracking Consent: You can enable/disable visitor tracking in plugin settings</li>
<li>Content Sync: You can choose which post types to sync (posts, pages, custom types)</li>
<li>Auto Sync: You can disable automatic product synchronization</li>
<li>Cookie Notice: We recommend adding a cookie consent notice to your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>External Resources Loaded</h4>
This plugin loads the Contexa search SDK JavaScript from api.contexa.co/sdk/contexa-sdk.js on all frontend pages when an API key is configured. This SDK is part of the Contexa.co service and required for AI search functionality.
<h4>Data Retention</h4>
Data sent to Contexa.co is retained according to Contexa’s privacy policy. You can request data deletion by contacting Contexa support.

Contexa AI Search

AI-powered WooCommerce search with autocomplete, typo tolerance, and smart recommendations.

Ansera.AI

Ansera Search replaces the default WordPress search with an intuitive AI powered answer engine based on your site’s existing content.
We all know that when website visitors can’t find the answers they’re looking for, they will leave in frustration never to return. Traditional website search just returns a list of links for visitors to sort through themselves while most chatbot solutions are annoying and require significant set up.
Ansera solves for these issues and more by providing your website visitors with human readable natural language search responses based only on your site’s content.
Unlike traditional website search tools, Ansera can be up and running in as little as 5 minutes by even the least technical users. Once you install Ansera on your site, all you have to do is select the pages you want to train it to answer on. Additionally, you can link to externally stored content like youtube and vimeo videos or presentations.
Ansera’s analytics let you see what answers your users are actually seeking and how to improve your content and conversion to better serve them.
Features: 
– Out of the box set up while also providing several visual customization options for more advanced users 
– Human readable natural language search results 
– Real-time sync that updates answers as site content is updated 
– User analytics for all search queries 
– Customizable guiding questions 
– Visitors can email results to themselves 
– Integrate a custom lead generation form into the Ansera widget
Bring conversational AI search to your site in minutes – no coding required!
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin uses the following third-party services to provide its functionality:
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Google reCAPTCHA v3 – Used to detect and prevent spam/bot traffic. It collects user interaction data for verification. See <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google’s Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>. reCAPTCHA v3 works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sending it to Google to analyze whether a user is human. This process is automatic and invisible to users. This feature will be enabled after you provide Google ReCaptch V3 api credentials.
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api.ipify.org API – Used to determine user geolocation based on IP address. See <a href="https://geo.ipify.org/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">geo.ipify.org Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://geo.ipify.org/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>. Whenever user asks the question in the searchbox, we will call this api and fetch that user’s ip address. We are not passing any customer information to the api server.
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api.ansera.ai – This is the API server of the Ansera.ai platform. It receives content submitted by the WordPress admin from the plugin’s settings page and returns AI-generated responses. ON plugin activation wordpress pages will be sent to Ansera website. WordPress Administrator/Editor can manage sync/unsyc the posts from plugin settings page. See <a href="https://portal.ansera.ai/privacy.html" rel="nofollow ugc">www.Ansera.ai Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://portal.ansera.ai/terms.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
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dashboard.ansera.ai — Used to render analytics dashboards based on data collected by the <code>api.ansera.ai</code> service. It does not collect or access any data from the WordPress site itself. See <a href="https://portal.ansera.ai/privacy.html" rel="nofollow ugc">www.Ansera.ai Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://portal.ansera.ai/terms.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
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ansera-cdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com — Ansera developed a CDN javascript library and published it to Amazon S3 storage engine. This plugin renders the Ansera CDN from Amazon S3 bucket. Complete frontend UI will be rendered from this Javascript CDN library. See <a href="https://portal.ansera.ai/privacy.html" rel="nofollow ugc">www.Ansera.ai Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://portal.ansera.ai/terms.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>. See <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">aws.amazon.com Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.
</li>
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No personal information is stored by the plugin itself, but IP addresses may be transmitted to external APIs.

Ansera Search

Ansera AI-powered search plugin provides answers based on your existing Wordpress content. Smarter than search, simpler than a chatbot

Contexa AI Search vs Ansera Search