WordPress.org

Authors: Ajay, Mark Ghosh

Do you hate the inbuilt WordPress search?

Improve your visitors search experience with Better Search

Better Search will provide contextually search your WordPress blogs and then list the results based on relevance. It automatically replaces the default WordPress search and supports templates for perfect integration into your blog.

Additionally, the plugin will track the searches and allow you present a "search heatmap" of the most popular searches.

Features

• Search for posts contextually with results sorted by relevance
• Automatically replaces your default WordPress search with Better Search results
• Display a list of popular search terms (daily and overall) on your blog in the form of a heatmap
• Choose between WordPress search and Better Search (coming soon)
• Support for a template file for perfect integration into your blog template
• Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the plugin from within WP-Admin
• Works with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache

Changelog

• 1.1.7 - Two new fulltext indexes added... the first step to better control on search results
• 1.1.6 - Bug fixed in display of daily search heatmap
• 1.1.5 - Fixed a bug
• 1.1.4 - Fixed a bug
• 1.1.3 - Critical Fix: Possible security hole
• 1.1.2 - Fixed: Searches not tracked when not using template
• 1.1.1 - Fixed: Certain search terms didn't work
• 1.1
  • Plugin now allows use of template file. Create a file better-search-template.php in your themes folder.
  • Pages are also included in the results. You can turn it off in options
  • Drafts are no longer included in results
  • WordPress Title rewritten
  • Added support for localization.
• 1.0 - Release