Description

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress – A WordPress live search plugin – Ajax search

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress was designed to boost the user search experience to the maximum. It provides a live ajax search, which makes the wordpress search experience more comfortable. The results are presented with images (if any found), so they look more attractive and less flat. The search works with mobile devices, let it be Android or IOS powered. As of version 3.1 (2014 sep. 19) the search can override the default wordpress search results – so the ajax functionality is extended. The search can return posts, custom post types (like WooCommerce products, BBPress forums, topics, replies), Categories, custom taxonomy terms, buddypress users, buddypress gorups and buddypress activities as results.

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress features

LAYOUT & THEMES

Four built-in layouts: Vertical, Horizontal, Polaroid and Isotopic. 60+ pre-defined theme for each layout, including the ones on the demo page.
MANY CONTENT TYPES SUPPORTED

The search supports posts, pages and any kind of custom post type. WooCommerce, Jigoshop, wp-Ecommerce and many other plugins use custom post types – so they are all compatible with Ajax Search Pro.

FRONTEND SEARCH SETTINGS

The plugin provides a customizable frontend settings interface for users. By ticking a few checkboxes the user can change the behaviour of the plugin – like looking for exact matches, including/excluding certain post types, categories or custom taxonomies (like product categories)
ICONS

Use the variety of high resolution, vectorized and colorizable svg icons or upload your own if you want to.

IMAGE SUPPORT

The search has built in libraries with extreme compatibility for image handling. They can parse through content, excerpt, custom fields or just simply display the featured image.
WIDGETS & SHORTCODES

Three different widget are provided (latest searches, top searches and search box) and two shortcodes for each search. Shortcode buttons are also visible on the post editor.

ADJUSTABLE SEARCH LOGIC

You can change the search logic to fit your needs. By default the plugin works with an OR logic to provide higher amount of results. If you however need more strict results, you can change this with a click. More info in the documentation search logic section.
SMART IMAGE PARSING

Highly adjustable image parser ensures to show the best quality images in the results. The plugin can scan the featured, content, excerpt custom field for images.

MULTISITE SUPPORT

Having a multisite network? You can select which blogs you want to include in each individual search instance. You can search multiple blogs at the same time.
RELEVANCE SEARCH & INDEX TABLE

A fully configurabe relevance options panel is provided for those, who like to fine-tune their plugins. You can switch to index table search and create indexes for even more relevant results.

VISUAL COMPOSER SUPPORT

As of version 4.0 the search acts as a Visual Composer add-on as well. You can easily manage the search instances via the Visual Composer plugin.
COMPACT LAYOUT MODE

No place on your site for the search widget? You can hide the search bar until the user clicks on the magnifier icon.

KEYWORD SUGGESTIONS & AUTOCOMPLETE

Google keyword suggestions and autocomplete is enabled by default. The suggestions language is changeable.
KEYWORD HIGHLIGHTING

The search phrase can be highlighted in the results list. You can change the color of the highlighting as well.

INDEX TABLE ENGINE

Plugin version 4.5 introduces a new, index table powered search engine. This engine is capable of indexing shortcode content, for sites built with composer plugins. It’s also a huge performance saver for high traffic sites.
PERFORMANCE TRACKER

Track the search query performances with the simple, built in performance tracker. It will help you optimize the search ajax speed.

SEARCH STATISTICS

By enabling the search statistics will give you an insight on which phrases are the most popular on your website.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS INTEGRATION

With a push of a button you can integrate google analytics to the search, so the phrases will show up as pageviews on your analytics dashboard.

CACHE

For websites with higher traffic caching is provided to reduce the database queries and increase the search performance.
COMPATIBILITY

Compatibility options will provide you a quick fix interface in case something is not working properly.

PERFORMANCE TRAKING

The plugin will track the query performances and give you a better insight on your recent setting changes.
EXPORT AND IMPORT

Want to use a working search instance on your other project? Export the search settings and import them to your other site. Easy as that.