Site Search for WordPress
A free plugin that replaces the WordPress search with enterprise site search: words and meaning in one ranking, facets, autocomplete, analytics, WooCommerce products, SEO tags, a sitemap and an out of the box chat bot that answers from your site. The searches run on Opensolr, not on your server.
Let Visitors Talk to Your Site
An out of the box chat bot that answers from your posts, pages, products and documents, and links every one it mentions. Opensolr runs it: nothing to install on your server.
- Answers from your contentThe chat searches your Opensolr Index, the same one the plugin fills for your search page, and writes the answer from what it finds, word by word, in the visitor's own language. Every page, product and PDF page it mentions is linked. When your site does not have the answer, it says so.
- Facts it never guessesToday's date, the local time anywhere, exchange rates, VAT rates and VAT numbers, distances, postal codes and places are looked up, never made up. What it can look up
- Commands that answer at once
/search,/time,/rate,/vat,/distance,/translateand more: typing/lists them. Commands - Yours to set, and to watchYour own instructions, the look of the chat window and limits per visitor; stats and the history of every conversation, so you see what people ask and what your site does not answer yet. Settings, stats and history
On in four steps
The plugin has a Chat Bot tab that opens the Chat Bot of your index in one click:
- Open the Chat Bot tab of the plugin and click Open the Chat Bot of your index.
- List the domains of your site.
- Click Save settings.
- Add the one-line embed code to your pages. The chat is live.
It answers with the AI requests of your plan: 500 a month on every plan, more on Pricing.
Everything Your Search Needs
Six things the plugin gives your site. Each links to the page that explains it.
Hybrid search
The words people type and what they mean count in one ranking. Hybrid search
AI Hints, AI Reader & Chat Bot
A short answer written from your own posts, any result read as clean text with a summary, and a chat bot that talks to your visitors. AI Hints · AI Reader · Chat Bot
Facets & autocomplete
Lists, min/max sliders, date ranges and drill-down categories, plus suggestions as visitors type. Facets
WooCommerce
Products pushed with their prices, categories and images, ready for a price slider. WooCommerce
Analytics & elevation
Queries, clicks and searches with no results in your WordPress database; pin or exclude results per query. Analytics · Elevation
SEO tags & sitemap
Open Graph, Twitter Card, canonical and description tags on every page, and a sitemap at /opensolr-sitemap.xml. SEO
Up and Running in Four Steps
Install, connect, fill, search. Installation · Setup
Install
From the WordPress Plugin Directory, or upload the ZIP.
Connect
Your Opensolr email and API key, a region: the index is created for you.
Fill it
Let Opensolr crawl your sitemap, or push posts and products with Data Ingestion.
Search
Your visitors search at /opensolr-search.
How It Compares
The default WordPress search next to Opensolr Search.
| Feature | WordPress Default | Opensolr Search |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance ranking | Basic MySQL LIKE | BM25 + AI vectors |
| Faceted navigation | ✗ | ✓ List, slider, date, hierarchy |
| Autocomplete | ✗ | ✓ Suggestions + results |
| AI-powered answers | ✗ | ✓ AI Hints + AI Reader |
| Chat bot on your site | ✗ | ✓ Answers from your content, run by Opensolr |
| Search analytics | ✗ | ✓ Queries, clicks, CTR |
| WooCommerce products | Basic text only | ✓ Price, SKU, categories |
| Document search (PDF, DOCX) | ✗ | ✓ Full text extraction, scanned PDFs and pictures read with OCR in 100+ languages (live demo) |
| Query elevation (pin/exclude) | ✗ | ✓ Visual controls |
| Dark theme | ✗ | ✓ Built-in |
| Highlighting | ✗ | ✓ Term highlighting |
| SEO meta tags | ✗ | ✓ Open Graph, Twitter Card, canonical, description |
| Server load | Every search is a MySQL query | Searches run on Opensolr |
| Multilingual (WPML/Polylang) | Partial | ✓ Auto locale filtering |
Ready to Transform Your WordPress Search?
Install the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory and your search is live in minutes. The free plan and every current plan include a monthly allowance of AI requests for AI Hints, AI Reader, search by meaning and the chat bot (500 a month to start; more on Pricing).
How the plugin fills your index and what your site gets: WordPress: Opensolr Search plugin · Enterprise Site Search