I heard many times, that WordpPess's search doesn't work good.
Are there any other search engines available for wordpress?
I know about sphynx, seems its a good one, but available plugins are out of date.
Thanks.
I heard many times, that WordpPess's search doesn't work good.
Are there any other search engines available for wordpress?
I know about sphynx, seems its a good one, but available plugins are out of date.
Thanks.
Share Improve this question edited Mar 29, 2011 at 0:08 hakre 12.9k6 gold badges49 silver badges85 bronze badges asked Mar 28, 2011 at 22:28 ilovewordpressilovewordpress 3371 gold badge4 silver badges12 bronze badges 4- Please see also this question: How to make search engine index PDF files ? – hakre Commented Mar 29, 2011 at 0:08
- I personally like a lot the Search Unleashed plugin. Simple and efficient. It does need a bit of patching unfortunately, because the author seems to have given up. Fortunately, the patch can be found on the wordpress forum, in this thread. – pixeline Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 9:31
- I am having the same problem few days ago. But after a search of few days i am able to find a Wordpress Plugin fulltextsearch. This plugin creates a transparent word-based index to smooth the search and makes the website fully searchable. – Jack Wood Commented Jul 13, 2018 at 10:48
- Elasticsearch and for integration with WordPress ElasticPress are good. – Nicolai Grossherr Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 19:50
3 Answers
Reset to default 3WordPress › Relevanssi - A Better Search « WordPress Plugins
Key features:
Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date.
Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don't match.
Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query).
Search for phrases with quotes, for example "search phrase".
Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted.
Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results.
Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields.
Advanced features:
Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments.
Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits.
Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings.
Index custom post types and custom taxonomies.
Index the contents of shortcodes.
Google-style "Did you mean?" suggestions based on successful user searches.
Automatic support for WPML multi-language plugin
Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want.
There are a lot of a posts written about this, and it took me a while to figure out a solution. Google Custom Search is a great solution - if you have a google account (which you can easily get if you don't), a basic understanding of wordpress themes, and some php.
http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/2010/01/22/how-to-google-custom-search-wordpress/
If you don't have those skills sets, there is a pretty good plugin you can use. It's not as good as Google Custom Search, but it does the job better than the Wordpress's search engine.
http://wordpress/extend/plugins/relevanssi/
Hope this helps a bit.
Using a dedicated search engine like sphinx or solr You can improve search result.