Search Hero

Search Hero replaces the standard WordPress search with a better search engine. You’ll get faster more relevant results, and your users will thank you.
Your wordpress content will need to be indexed after plugin installation. Once the content is indexed, new and updated content will be kept up to date automatically.
The index process can be done from the plugin settings page, and also using wp-cli on the command line.
For large sites with many posts, using wp-cli is recommended. The command to index is <code>wp-cli search-hero index</code>

Search Hero replaces the default search with a better search that sorts by relevance.  Designed for fast performance, and large wordpress sites.

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>.
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No personal information is stored by the plugin itself, but IP addresses may be transmitted to external APIs.
<h3>Plugin Upgrade Permission Issues</h3>
If you see a “folder permission” or “update failed” error while upgrading this plugin, it means WordPress does not have permission to replace the existing plugin folder. This issue occurs due to file/folder permissions or ownership on the server.
Please follow the steps below or share them with your hosting provider:
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Ensure the following recommended WordPress permissions:
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<li>Folders: 755</li>
<li>Files: 644</li>
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Verify that all WordPress files are owned by the web server user:
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<li>www-data (Ubuntu/Debian)</li>
<li>apache (CentOS/RedHat)</li>
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Ask your hosting provider to correct ownership and permissions using: 
chown -R : /path/to/wordpress/ 
find /path/to/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; 
find /path/to/wordpress/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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Make sure no security plugins or hosting rules are blocking file deletion during updates.
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If your hosting requires FTP credentials for updates, enter them in: 
WordPress Admin → Updates → Enter FTP details.
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If the issue continues, please contact your hosting provider and ask them to “fix WordPress file permissions and ownership.” This will resolve the problem in most cases.

Ansera Search

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

Search Hero vs Ansera Search