Ajax Search Pro is a highly customizable, powerful ajax search engine for WordPress. It’s an all around search plugin, which supports posts, pages, custom post types and much more… 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)
Featured list:
- 300+ possible options on admin panel
- 60+ pre-defined fully customisable themes
- Vertical / Horizontal / Polaroid and Isotopic styled results list
- Multiple search plugins on one page – You can configure all of them separately!
- Google Keyword Suggestions on no results, witch a language selector
- Responsive width
- Search caching & image precaching for better performace
- Search in public custom fields
- Results filtering by custom taxonomies, custom fields
- Search relevance options with adjustable weight values
- Retina ready SVG icons
- WPML support
- Google Analytics Integration module
- Scroll-to-results option
- Keyboard navigation for vertical results
- Multiple instances of search boxes are now possible
- Better preview
- Shortcode buttons on the Post editor
- Better image options and image handling
- Hooks – Filters & Actions for developers
- For the full list see the changelog down below!
- Search statistics page
- Default search text
- Intelligent image parsing (possible from post featured image, post content, post excerpt, possible to set priorities as well)
- Custom Post Types support – You can select which post types do you want to search! Tested with BBPress!
- qTranslate compatible
- Font, color, border, box shadow options
- Keyword Highlighting in search results
- Works in templates and in post and pages as well
- WPBakery Page Builder addon included
- Search widgets also included
- Preview window on the admin page
- Mobile support
- Frontend Search options popup
- Possible to search in Posts, Pages and Products (WooCommerce, Jigoshop, WP-ecommerce)
- Image caching + TimThumb for alternative solution
- Very easy installation and set up
- Powerful api for controlling the search from other frontend applications
- jQuery powered, for the best possible compatibility
- Show more results link below the search box
- WordPress 3.5+ compatibility!
- Multisite support!
- Search autocomplete with search statistics or google keywords!
- Error checking module
- Shortcodes can be executed in search results
- Search result content HTML tag stripping is possible
- Category selectors on the frontend – It’s possible to filter the posts by categories
- You can select custom fields as post title and description
- Post grouping by category or post type!
- Search in comments
- It’s possible to exclude categories or posts from the search!
- Stable, custom built jQuery for maximum compatibility
- Shortcodes strippable/executable in results
- Supports pages with categories/taxonomies