12 Best WordPress Search Plugins
Improve your website's search functionality with advanced WordPress search plugins. Enhance user experience with fast, accurate, and customizable search solutions.
Relevanssi – A Better Search
Active Installations: 100,000+
393 ratings
Updated: 12/18/2024
Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.
Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin
Active Installations: 100,000+
1,456 ratings
Updated: 1/29/2025
Advanced WordPress custom search plugin. Provides Search Form Customizer, WooCommerce Search, AJAX Search & Live Search support!
Search Regex
Active Installations: 200,000+
96 ratings
Updated: 12/29/2024
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
Advanced Woo Search
Active Installations: 70,000+
237 ratings
Updated: 3/17/2025
Advanced WooCommerce search plugin. Search inside any product field. Support for both AJAX search and search results page.
Search & Replace
Active Installations: 100,000+
281 ratings
Updated: 8/26/2024
Search & Replace data in your database with WordPress admin, replace domains/URLs of your WordPress installation.
Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter
Active Installations: 80,000+
243 ratings
Updated: 1/27/2025
The Best Ajax Live Search and Filter for WordPress. Live suggestions, Custom Post types, Custom fields, Categories, WooCommerce & Elementor support
String locator
Active Installations: 100,000+
122 ratings
Updated: 1/15/2025
Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins
Search Exclude
Active Installations: 60,000+
178 ratings
Updated: 3/13/2025
Hide any post or page from the search results.
Real-Time Find and Replace
Active Installations: 90,000+
80 ratings
Updated: 10/28/2024
Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user's browser.
ACF: Better Search
Active Installations: 40,000+
160 ratings
Updated: 2/28/2025
This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Better Find and Replace
Active Installations: 50,000+
159 ratings
Updated: 3/26/2025
Search and replace text, code blocks, URLs, media, images, footer credits, jQuery/Ajax content or anything in real-time & database with advanced f …
Search & Filter
Active Installations: 50,000+
169 ratings
Updated: 11/20/2024
Search and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Search Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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