Bernhard Kau

<p><strong>Kau-Boy’s OpenSearch is deprecated and will be removed from the plugin directory on July 29, 2023, 13 years after its first release. If you still want to use OpenSearch on your site, I recommend switching to <a href="https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/open-search-document/" rel="nofollow ugc">Open Search Document</a> which is still actively supported.</strong></p>
<p>Integrates an OpenSearchDescription so that users can add your blog as a search location to their browsers. Your favicon will also be visible next to the search option in the browser.</p>
<p>You don’t need to setup any information. Just install and activate the plugin!</p>


Kau-Boy's Opensearch

Integrates an OpenSearchDescription so that users can add your blog as a search location to their browsers. Your favicon will also be visible next to  …

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.

Kau-Boy's Opensearch vs WPSOLR Search — WordPress Search Plugin