Smart Search — Instant On-Site Search for WordPress

Visitors who can’t find it, don’t buy it

WordPress’s built-in search is slow, ugly, and only searches posts — never your WooCommerce products. Every visitor who hits it and gives up is a sale or a pageview you’ll never see in your analytics. Smart Search fixes that with a single floating icon that opens an instant, live-typing search modal covering your entire catalog: blog posts and store products, together, ranked and shown with a thumbnail, an excerpt, and — optionally — the price.

Smart Search vs. the alternatives

What’s inside

• Floating search icon (choose the corner) that opens an instant modal — works on any theme, no template edits
• Live, debounced search as the visitor types (min. 2 characters, 300ms delay — fast without hammering your server)
• Searches posts and WooCommerce products together, up to 8 results, each with thumbnail, excerpt snippet, and a type badge
• Optional price display on product results (your call — toggle on or off)
• `
  Search
  ` shortcode to embed the same search box inline anywhere — a page, a widget, a header
• Full control panel: which post types are searchable, result count, placeholder text, icon position, and colors to match your brand

FAQ

Will it slow my site down? No — search runs through a lightweight REST endpoint only when the visitor is actively typing, and results are capped and debounced.

Does it work with my theme? Yes. It’s a self-contained floating widget — it doesn’t touch your theme’s template files.

Can I turn off product search and just search posts (or vice versa)? Yes, both are independent toggles in Settings.

Do I need to know code to install it? No. Upload the zip through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, activate, and configure from the Settings menu.

Honesty note: this is a single-site license for one WordPress installation. It’s a self-contained plugin with no ongoing subscription — future feature updates aren’t automatic, so if you’d like a newer version down the line, just get in touch.

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