Gergely Szerovay

<p>WP Static Search</p>
<p>This plugin adds a static search engine to your WordPress site. Static in this context means that it works in the browser without using of server-side queries, so it’s ideal for static <a href="https://github.com/gergelyszerovay/wp-static-proxy" rel="nofollow ugc">websites generated from a WordPress site</a>.</p>
<p>Since both the search and the indexing happens in the browser, this plugin is not a good fit for sites that contain hundreds of pages and posts.</p>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<p>After you are installed the plugin, choose the ”Static Search” option from the left sidebar of the WordPress admin interface. Press the ”Update Index” button and wait until the indexing is finished. Each time you change the content of the website, you should update the search index manually.</p>
<p>To insert the search box and the search results into the site, use the [static_search] shortcode. It’s a good practice to create a page called ”Search” with the slug ”/search/” and insert the [static_search] shortcode into this page. To redirect the search widgets to this page, append the following code to the bottom of your .htaccess file:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \\?s=([^&]+) [NC]

RewriteRule ^$ /search/?q=%1 [NC,R,END]
</code></pre>
<p>This code redirects the search queries to the /search/ page, then the [static_search] shortcode processes them and shows the search results.</p>
<h3>Built With</h3>
<p><a href="https://lunrjs.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">lunar.js</a> – Javascript search engine</p>
<h3>Versioning</h3>
<p>We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This project is licensed under the Apache 2 and GPL2+ Licenses<br />
Acknowledgments</p>
<p>The frontend search code based on the <a href="https://www.mkdocs.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">MkDocs project’s</a> search plugin.</p>


WP Static Search

This plugin adds a static search engine to your Wordpress site. Static in this context means that it works in the browser without using of server-side …

Mateusz Gbiorczyk

<p>This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.</p>
<p>Everything works automatically, no need to add any additional code. The plugin does not create a search results page, but modifies the SQL database query to make your search engine work better.</p>
<p>Additionally you can search for whole phrases instead of each single word of phrase. As a result, search will be more accurate than before.</p>
<h4>New search core</h4>
<p>We modified the code of search engine. Content search is now faster by about 75% <em>(depending on the level of complexity of searched phrase)</em>!</p>
<h4>Support to the development of plugin</h4>
<p>We spend hours working on the development of this plugin. Technical support also requires a lot of time, but we do it because we want to offer you the best plugin. We enjoy every new plugin installation.</p>
<p>If you would like to appreciate it, you can <a href="https://ko-fi.com/gbiorczyk/?utm_source=acf-better-search&utm_medium=readme-content" rel="nofollow ugc">provide us a coffee</a>. <strong>If every user bought at least one, we could work on the plugin 24 hours a day!</strong></p>
<h4>Please also read the FAQ below. Thank you for being with us!</h4>


ACF: Better Search


Not only was the plugin author responsive in a timely manner, they also actually updated their code to allow for filtering in new options to potentially search through. This opens the door for other plugin authors that work with ACF Field types to automatically extend ACF Better Search on their own.



Working together to make awesome interoperable plugins for the win.


Responsive and help support


In the past, I've used pre_get_posts() to filter in some ACF fields to my searches. And, you know what they said about pre_get_posts(), if that's the solution to your problem, now you have 2 problems. This plugin has been immensely helpful in simplifying the process of adding ACF fields to search queries. Huge thanks!


Makes the complex simple


Hi guys! First of all: thank you for this plugin. It's a must if you use ACF.



...I switched from GUI defined ACF fields to PHP defined fields (trough the ACF export to PHP utility) and the plugin stopped working.



Fortunately I seen this thread: "Problem with search from imported fields (acf-json)" (sorry, WP don't allow links in reviews) and I activated the "Lite Mode": all worked again fine.



...I think you should detect it and advice your users, or at least explain it in the settings pane, because if my first testing was with the PHP fields, maybe I was discarded your great plugin.



Anyway: Thanks guys! Great plugin!!!


It's a must if you use ACF

This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

WP Static Search vs ACF: Better Search