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Doofinder

<p>Doofinder provides fast, accurate results based on your website contents. Results appear in your search box at an incredible speed as the user types.</p>
<p>Doofinder can be installed in any website with very little configuration (feed your search engine with data and put a bit of javascript code in your page).</p>
<p>This extension allows you to easily populate the data Doofinder needs to be able to search your database and to insert the Doofinder layer script into your WordPress site.</p>
<p>With Doofinder you are confident that your visitors are finding what they are looking for.</p>
<p>These are some advantages of using Doofinder in your site:</p>
<ul>
<li>Instant, relevant results.</li>
<li>Tolerant of misspellings.</li>
<li>Search filters.</li>
<li>Increases the conversion rates.</li>
<li>No technical knowledge are required.</li>
<li>Allows the use of labels and synonyms.</li>
<li>Installs in minutes.</li>
<li>Provides statistical information.</li>
<li>Doofinder brings back the control over the searches in your site to you.</li>
</ul>
<p>When users start typing in the search box, Doofinder displays the best results for their search. If users make typos, our algorithms will detect them and will perform the search as if the term were correctly typed.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Doofinder sorts the results displaying the most relevant first.</p>
<p>More info: <a href="http://www.doofinder.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.doofinder.com</a></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> To use this plugin you need to have an account at Doofinder. If you don’t have one you can signup <a href="http://www.doofinder.com/signup" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> to get your 30 day free trial period.</p>
<p>The minimum technical equirements are basically the same as the WordPress ones. Take a look at their <a href="https://docs.WordPress.com/document/server-requirements/" rel="nofollow ugc">server requirements</a> for more info.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>Once activated, you will see a new entry in the main menu called <em>Doofinder</em> with two sub-menus:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Doofinder:</strong> To access the main settings page of the module.</li>
<li><strong>Index Posts:</strong> To access the indexing wizard.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>NOTICE:</strong> Doofinder for WordPress has built-in support for <a href="https://wpml.org/es/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">PolyLang</a> multi-language plugins. In case you use any of them, ensure you’ve switched <em>context</em> to one of the defined languages. In <em>All Languages</em> context you won’t be able to configure anything. You will have to configure as many search engines as languages you have in your site.</p>
<p>Doofinder Settings</p>
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<p>Authentication</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>API Key:</strong> This is the secret token you use to index contents (in ML environments you can share the same key). Your API key can be found in the Doofinder Control Panel. Click on your profile name (in the header) and then on <em>API Keys</em>. Make sure you’re using a <em>Management</em> API key and not a <em>Search</em> API key.</li>
<li><strong>Search Engine HashID:</strong> Id of the search engine that will index your contents. Can be found in the Doofinder Control Panel. Click on <em>Search Engines</em> in the header. Hash ID will be visible next to the name of your Search Engine. Remember to use different search engines for different languages if you’re in a ML environment.</li>
</ul>
<p>Index Settings</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Post Types:</strong> Choose which contents you want to index.</li>
</ul>
<p>Search Settings</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>JS Layer:</strong> Enable the Doofinder JavaScript layer – when typing into a search field a window will pop up containing the list of results generated by Doofinder. This requires correct layer code pasted in the <em>Layer Javascript Code</em> field.</li>
<li><strong>JS Layer Script:</strong> Here you can paste the Layer Javascript Code that can be found in the Doofinder Control Panel. It is required for the Javascript Layer to work.</li>
<li><strong>Internal Search:</strong> Internal search overrides the default WordPress search that happens when users enter their search term and press Enter (and the website goes to the search results page).</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> Unless you know what you’re doing, it’s recommended to index contents first and, after the indexing process is finished, enable this option. If you switch the order, your site may return no results until something is indexed.</p>
<p>Index Posts</p>
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<p>This section allows you to reindex all your contents. Just press the button and wait until it finishes. You will have to do this for each language if you’re in a ML environment.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> Unless you know what you’re doing, it’s recommended to disable internal search when reindexing contents and, after the indexing process is finished, re-enable it. If you switch the order, your site may return no results until something is indexed.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> Don’t leave the Index Posts screen until the process finished or your data won’t be fully indexed.</p>


This plugin integrates the Doofinder search service with your WordPress site.

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CelerSearch

<p>CelerSearch routes WordPress search through Meilisearch. Sub-50ms responses, typo tolerance, autocomplete, highlighting, and full WooCommerce support — with an admin UI built for day-to-day use, not just setup.</p>
<h4>🔍 Search</h4>
<ul>
<li>Millisecond results on any site size</li>
<li>Typo tolerance and stemming out of the box</li>
<li>Live, paginated autocomplete as users type</li>
<li>Match highlighting on titles and excerpts</li>
<li>Category, tag, and custom-taxonomy filtering</li>
<li>Pin documents at fixed positions for chosen queries (per-index Rules)</li>
<li>Custom search results pages via Views + block/shortcode</li>
<li>Native WordPress search fallback when Meilisearch is unreachable</li>
</ul>
<h4>🗂 Indexing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Posts, pages, any custom post type</li>
<li>WooCommerce products (including variations) and orders</li>
<li>Real-time sync on publish, update, trash, and watched meta changes</li>
<li>Manual rebuild with configurable batch size</li>
<li>Per-index searchable, filterable, sortable attributes + synonyms — all editable in the admin</li>
<li>Content splitting for long posts (configurable; Meilisearch deduplicates results)</li>
</ul>
<h4>🌐 Where search runs</h4>
<ul>
<li>Frontend site search (replace the default results page with a custom View)</li>
<li>Admin list search (posts, products, media)</li>
<li>REST API search (headless/decoupled setups)</li>
<li>AJAX-faceted WooCommerce shop & archive filters</li>
</ul>
<h4>📊 Analytics (opt-in)</h4>
<ul>
<li>See your top queries and which ones return zero results, so you can fix content gaps</li>
<li>Daily query-volume trend per index over 7/30/90-day windows</li>
<li>Off by default and fully private — data stays in your own database, with bounded retention (see Privacy & Data below)</li>
</ul>
<h4>🎯 Use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>WooCommerce stores with thousands of orders</strong> — native admin order search slows to a crawl and misses matches as the orders table grows. Enable the “WooCommerce Admin Orders Search” area and lookups stay instant at any scale.</li>
<li><strong>Product catalogs with rich attributes</strong> — drive shop and category archives with AJAX-faceted filters for color, size, brand, price, plus typo-tolerant keyword search.</li>
<li><strong>Content-heavy sites (news, blogs, documentation)</strong> — replace the frontend search with live autocomplete and fuzzy matching so readers find posts by typing a few characters.</li>
<li><strong>Custom post types at scale</strong> — directories, job boards, listings. Native WP search is a slow <code>LIKE '%…%'</code> across a handful of columns; CelerSearch indexes every field and ranks by relevance.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🧑‍💻 Developer-friendly</h4>
<ul>
<li>40+ filter hooks across indexing, search, and results</li>
<li>Extend with your own index types (<code>celersearch_supported_indices</code>)</li>
<li>Custom search-area types (<code>celersearch_area_types</code>) for BuddyPress, LearnDash, etc.</li>
<li>Taxonomy-aware queries translate WP_Query <code>tax_query</code> to the engine filter syntax</li>
</ul>
<p>Full documentation at <a href="https://docs.celersearch.com" rel="nofollow ugc">docs.celersearch.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0+</li>
<li>PHP 8.1+</li>
<li>A Meilisearch instance — self-host on your VPS, or get a managed one at <a href="https://celersearch.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">celersearch.com</a> from $10/mo.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🚀 Getting started</h4>
<p>After activation a welcome notice points you to the setup flow:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stand up Meilisearch — self-host (<a href="https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/self_hosted/getting_started_with_self_hosted_meilisearch" rel="nofollow ugc">guide</a>) or use <a href="https://celersearch.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">celersearch.com</a></li>
<li>Add the service under <strong>CelerSearch <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Services</strong></li>
<li>Create an index under <strong>CelerSearch <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Indices</strong> and rebuild it</li>
<li>Enable the relevant search area under <strong>CelerSearch <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings</strong></li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy & Data</h3>
<p>CelerSearch does not phone home and does not send any data to third-party services. All search queries are forwarded only to the Meilisearch (or future Typesense) instance you configure under CelerSearch <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Services.</p>
<p>The optional <strong>Analytics</strong> feature (off by default; opt-in under CelerSearch <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Analytics) stores each performed search in your own WordPress database so you can see what visitors search for. When enabled it records:</p>
<ul>
<li>The search term (the text typed by the visitor)</li>
<li>The matching index, area type, and the number of results returned</li>
<li>The search engine that served the request (e.g. <code>meilisearch</code>) and a timestamp</li>
</ul>
<p>IP addresses, user identifiers, session tokens, referrers, and user-agent strings are <strong>never</strong> stored. Retention is bounded by a configurable window (default 30 days, range 7–365) and a daily background job prunes older rows automatically. You can disable Analytics at any time and clear all collected data from the Settings page. Uninstalling the plugin drops the analytics table entirely.</p>


CelerSearch – Lightning Fast Search with Meilisearch

⚡ Instant, typo-tolerant WordPress search powered by Meilisearch. Autocomplete, highlighting, faceted filters, WooCommerce-ready.

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