contexa

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


Contexa AI Search

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


WPSOLR Search — WordPress Search Plugin

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

Contexa AI Search vs WPSOLR Search — WordPress Search Plugin