Title: CatCode Smart Search for WooCommerce Author: CatCode Published: September 30, 2026 Last modified: September 30, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/assets/banner-772x250. png?rev=3721633) ![](https://ps.w.org/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/assets/icon-256x256.png? rev=3721633) # CatCode Smart Search for WooCommerce By [CatCode](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catcodestudio/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/) ## Description The standard WooCommerce search looks for the exact letters you typed. “Notebok”,“ ноутбак”, “AB 123-45” instead of “AB12345” — and the shopper sees “No products were found” while the product is right there. Smart Search fixes that without sending your catalogue to an outside service: it keeps its own compact index in your WordPress database and answers from it. **What shoppers get** * **Typos are forgiven.** One typo in words of 4–6 letters, two in longer words; swapped letters count as one typo. “Showing results for …” tells the shopper what was searched. * **SKUs the way people type them.** “AB-123 45”, “ab12345” and “AB 12345” all find AB12345; Cyrillic letters that look like Latin ones (А, В, С, Е, Н, К, М, О, Р, Т, Х) are read as Latin. The exact SKU comes first. * **Ukrainian and Russian spellings together.** “телевізор” finds “Телевизор”, “ мило” finds “Мыло”: і/и/ы, є/е/э, ї, ґ and the apostrophe are matched automatically. * **Word forms.** “чохли” finds “чохла”, “headphones” finds “headphone”. * **Live suggestions** under the search field: product image, price, SKU, the categories the results are in, “All results (N)”. Keyboard navigation, works on mobile, no jQuery. * **Ranked results page.** Name and SKU matches first, then categories and brands; products in stock before sold-out ones. The shopper can still sort by price or popularity. **What the shop owner gets** * An index that updates itself when a product, its stock or its category changes; big imports are indexed in the background. * The first build runs in the background after activation; the shop keeps its standard search until the index is ready. * A search tester in the admin: type like a shopper, see the results and the time it took. * WP-CLI: `wp catcode-srch reindex`, `wp catcode-srch search "query"`, `wp catcode- srch stats`. * A ready-made form: `[catcode_srch_search]`. **Fast on big catalogues** A search reads the vocabulary, the entries of the few words it picked and the rows of the winners — never the products table with LIKE. The index lives in five small tables with the keys the queries need. **Where the data goes** Nowhere. The index is built from your products and stays in your database; suggestions are served by your own site through the WordPress REST API (`/wp-json/catcode-srch/ v1/suggest`). No external requests, no tracking. ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. WooCommerce must be active. 2. The index builds in the background (a few minutes for tens of thousands of products). Progress: WooCommerce Smart Search Index and test. 3. Suggestions appear under the existing search fields of the theme. To place a form yourself, use the `[catcode_srch_search]` shortcode. ## FAQ ### Does it work with my theme’s search field? Suggestions attach to every field named “s” — the WordPress, WooCommerce and most theme search forms. If your theme uses another field, set its CSS selector in the settings. ### What if the index is not built yet or finds nothing? The standard WordPress search runs, exactly as without the plugin. ### Will it slow down my site? Pages load one small script and stylesheet; the server is asked only when a shopper types. Indexing happens when products are saved, not when pages are viewed. ### Does it search in descriptions? Name, SKU, categories (with parent categories) and brands are searched. These are the fields shoppers search by; descriptions bring many accidental matches. ### Is my data sent anywhere? No. Everything happens on your server. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “CatCode Smart Search for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ CatCode ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catcodestudio/) [Translate “CatCode Smart Search for WooCommerce” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * First release: own index, typo tolerance, SKUs with spaces and dashes, Ukrainian/ Russian spelling matching, word forms, live suggestions, ranked results page, admin search tester, WP-CLI commands. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.2** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [live search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/live-search/)[product search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/product-search/) [sku](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sku/)[typo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/typo/) [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/catcode-smart-search-for-woocommerce/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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