Nick Haskins

WP Live Search (beta) is a search plugin for WordPress that returns results as the user types for what they are looking. It currently supports posts, pages, post types, including multiple post types, and design modes.
This is very much a working prototype, so please log any issues you find on the Github repo below. 
<a href="https://github.com/bearded-avenger/wp-live-search" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/bearded-avenger/wp-live-search</a>
Here’s some documentation. 
<a href="http://bearded-avenger.github.io/wp-live-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://bearded-avenger.github.io/wp-live-search/</a>
Add the shortcode <code>[wp_live_search]</code> to a page or something. There’s a few shortcode attributes that you can use, and are as follows:
type=”” 
Your choices are <code>posts</code> or <code>pages</code>. Defaults to <code>posts</code>. You can also pass <code>type,type</code> to search multiple post types. For example type=”recipes,books”
multi=”” 
By default this is turned off. Set this to true only if you’re using multiple post types above.
placeholder=”” 
The text displayed in the input. Defaults to <code>Search...</code>.
number=”” 
Total search result to return. Default is 20
excerpt=”true” 
Show the excerpt along with the title and featured image (if set)
compact=”true” 
Makes a tiny WP Live Search for use in header widgets and such
dropdown=”true” 
Display search results as a drop-down instead of pushing down the content around it
results=”” 
The text displayed for the results. Defaults to <code>entries found</code>.
results_style=”inside” 
Displays the “entries found” inside of the input area, useful for using in areas like header widgets where space is minimal.
target=”” 
An optional target UL parent to send the search results to. Example <code>target="#someotherdiv"</code>.
Here are a couple examples:
Default Usage: 
 [wp_live_search]
Use in Header Widget: 
 [wp_live_search compact=”true” dropdown=”true” results=”found” results_style=”inside”]
Search through multiple post types: 
 [wp_live_search multi=”true” type=”posts,page”]

WP Live Search

A super light-weight live search plugin that utilizes the WP REST API.

WPSOLR

<h4>Option 1 – Install a search engine on-premise with Docker</h4>
<ul>
<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 AI (keywords/hybrid/vector)</a></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 (keywords/hybrid/vector)</a></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 (keywords)</a></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 (keywords)</a></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 (keywords)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Option 2 – Using Cloudways? Use their pre-installed search engine service for Elasticsearch 8.x or Opensearch2.x</h4>
<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 (keywords)</a></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 (keywords)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Option 3 – Alternatively, use the wizard to connect with OpenSolr</h4>
If you cannot install Docker search, our wizard will configure your WordPress search with: 
– A trial Apache Solr index hosted by <a href="https://opensolr.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Opensolr</a> 
– Ajax search & autocompletion 
– Facets (filters) 
– Related posts.
<h4>Option 4 – More features with a subscription</h4>
Consider our flagship plugin <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSolr Enterprise</a> 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/guide/configuration-step-by-step-schematic/configure-your-indexes/activate-extensions/woocommerce-add-on/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a> In/out of stock, attribute variations, price variations, add to basket in suggestions, order/coupon search in back-end. 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/ai-chatbot-for-wordpress-and-woocommerce/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">AI connectors for RAG and ChatBots</a> Export WordPress data to feed any AI system in real-time: AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Kafka, Amazon SQS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Run. 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/which-search-engine-should-you-use/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Manage more than one engine</a>. For instance, Elasticsearch for back-end search, Weaviate AI for front-end search, Solr for suggestions, Recombee for AI Recommendation widgets. 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/wpsolr-enterprise/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">AI search personalization</a> Algolia AI search personalize, Google Retail search personalization. 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/wpsolr-pro-plus/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">AI recommendations</a> Algolia Recommend, Amazon Personalize, Recombee, Google Retail AI Personalization. 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/guide/configuration-step-by-step-schematic/configure-your-indexes/0-connect-your-indexes/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Enterprise hosting providers</a> Amazon Opensearch, Solr Opensolr, Solr Searchstax, Opensearch & Elasticsearch Bonsai, Algolia, Elasticsearch Elastic, Google Retail, Recombee. 
– <a href="https://www.wpsolr.com/facets-filters/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_campaign=wpsolr_free" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced filters and facets</a> Hierarchy tree, slider, range, select, select2, color picker, data picker. 
– …

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