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<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.

webdevstudios

Michael Beckwith

Brad Williams

Scott Basgaard

Richard Aber

Ashar Irfan

Greg Rickaby

Easily integrate the powerful search tool Algolia AI Search & Discovery directly into your WordPress website. Quickly index all of your website’s content and provide lightning fast and accurate search results within minutes!
Built and supported by WebDevStudios, the website agency behind Custom Post Type UI, WP Search with Algolia immediately improves search on your website. Your users will be impressed!
Enable Autocomplete and Instantsearch to immediately provide a more robust search experience to your visitors. Plus, you receive full control over the look, feel, and relevance of your users’ search experience.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>One-click indexing of all content in WordPress</li>
<li>Relevant, faceted ready search results in milliseconds with native typo-tolerance from Algolia AI Search & Discovery</li>
<li>Super granular control on search content relevancy and content positioning</li>
<li>Language-agnostic</li>
<li>WordPress hooks and filters available for easy customization of indexed content.</li>
</ul>
This plugin requires API keys from <a href="https://www.algolia.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Algolia</a>. API keys are free for small personal projects and non-commercial use. Learn more about <a href="https://www.algolia.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">commercial use pricing</a>.
<h3>WP Search with Algolia Pro</h3>
Introducing WP Search with Algolia Pro, our new premium version of WP Search with Algolia! Pro features include:
<ul>
<li>Multisite Network-wide support!
<ul>
<li>Create a global search for content across all the sites in your network all in one Algolia index.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>WooCommerce support
<ul>
<li>Indexing Product data including SKU, pricing (standard and variable), short descriptions, dimensions, and more.</li>
<li>Total sales and total ratings indexed for popularity</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Advanced SEO support with Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, Rank Math SEO, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework.
<ul>
<li>Content level settings to exclude individual content from the search index</li>
<li>Set Algolia’s indexing to match with existing search engine “noindex” settings</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Are you ready to go Pro? Check out <a href="https://pluginize.com/plugins/wp-search-with-algolia-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Search with Algolia Pro on Pluginize</a>!
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://webdevstudios.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WebDevStudios</a></li>
<li><a href="https://algolia.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Algolia</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/wp-search-with-algolia/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-search-with-algolia/" rel="ugc">Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/wp-search-with-algolia/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Feature requests and bugs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/algolia-snippet-library" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Search with Algolia Snippet Library</a></li>
</ul>
This plugin is a derivative work of the code from the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-by-algolia-instant-relevant-results/" rel="ugc">Search by Algolia – Instant & Relevant results</a> plugin for WordPress, which is licensed under the GPLv2.

WP Search with Algolia

I'm absolutely in love with this plugin. Algolia search by itself is amazing. This plugin makes it a breeze to index the exact content I want.

indexing is a breeze


This is effectively a continuation of the official Algolia WordPress plugin that Algolia abandoned in favor of focusing on their main product/services. Thankfully, WebDevStudios stepped up to the plate and released this plugin to keep it alive with their own set of updates & ongoing support.



I've been using this plugin since the very beginning (having used the official plugin from Algolia before that) and it's been a seamless transition with it being straightforward to use & customize if/when needed in these past years, for example having custom facets/filters being added to the search results page template / allowing linking to a specific set of search filters & queries / etc. which then uses the official Algolia implementation for that aspect of things so it's well documented (this also then shows a warning in the site admin if/when a customized search template in the theme is then left using an outdated version which might warrant being checked and/or updated as needed [then updating the version stated in that template file to get rid of that notice in that process.])



Developer support for this plugin has always been receptive & responsive when it comes to both bug fixes as well as potential features to add in a future update.



I find it difficult to try to find a better value and/or better overall search provider for WordPress than Algolia, and at that point, there doesn't look to be a better method to integrate it with a site quickly & effectively than what this plugin provides (easy to get up and running while customizable in the ways one would expect if/when needed.)


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