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WP Search Insights – Privacy-Friendly Search Analytics

Description

WP Search Insights records all searches made on your website. See from which post, page, or product a search originated in a clean and straightforward dashboard. Keep records of most popular searches, with and without results. Rank keywords by popularity and use the search filter to keep out spam.

Any code suggestions? We’re on GitHub as well!

Features

  • Records search activity on your website
  • Explore results in custom date ranges
  • Keep records of most popular searches, with and without results
  • Rank keywords by popularity
  • Search filter to keep out spam
  • Works with Ajax Search forms
  • Records originating pages and subsequent landing page after a search query
  • Export records in CSV
  • Privacy-friendly search analytics

Love WP Search Insights?

Hopefully, this plugin gives you valuable insights into what your users are looking for. If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please leave us a review!

Contact us if you have any questions, issues, or suggestions.

WP Search Insights in your language?

Translations can be added very easily here.

Screenshots

  • WP Search Insights Dashboard

Installation

To install this plugin:

  1. Download the plugin
  2. Upload the plugin to the wp-content/plugins directory,
  3. Searches are already being recorded! Follow the link in the activation notice to your WP Search Insights dashboard.

FAQ

Where can I find documentation?

  • WP Search Insights maintains a knowledgebase at https://wpsi.io.

Where can I find the search results or settings?

  • You can find the plugins dashboard and settings in the Tools -> Search Insights menu

How does it work?

  • Search forms are standard in WordPress and should be used by anyone to improve user experience. Recording visitors searches will give you insight into what your visitors are looking for, from which page, and what post is most relevant for their query. Analyzing this data will make your website a better fit for your next visitors!

Can I leave a feature request?

  • Yes, and please do! After our first release we will keep adding new features to free and develop premium add-ons to complement the data recorded by WP Search Insights.

Can I remove results?

  • Yes. Under settings you can clear your database searches. This cannot be overturned. Deleting single search queries can be removed from the dashboard by using the ‘delete’ option.

Reviews

July 25, 2023
This plugin seems very promising. Nice user friendly and understandable interface. But plugin is useless while it not save custom settings.Please test and update this very essential plugin. I will be happy to upgrade my review when this plugin will work as expected.
December 25, 2022
Es un plugin fantastico, lo tengo instalado en todas mis webs, y en tiendas de clientes. Este plugin me ayuda a comprender y a saber que es lo que buscan los usuarios, y así conocer si estoy dando un resultado correcto, o hacer contenido para esa búsqueda. Sencillamente es genial, esta super bien. Cuando instalas el plugin te hace un recorrido por todas las funciones del mismo algo mágico. Gracias por hacer un plugin tan bueno.
December 8, 2022
As stated in the title, 100% recommended to use this plugin, has a nice UX and does nicely what is says it does. Features needed: - table/list of most popular searches (sorted/sortable by different parameters) [Option to Show all by number of searches - this is absolutely essential] - should be able to identify if search was done by user or guest - should identify if user purchased in declared interval after searching [WooCommerce] (and have hooks ready to use for different automations)
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Search Insights – Privacy-Friendly Search Analytics” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.3.8

  • Added ignore button to all searches table
  • Added option to clear database tables after certain time period
  • Added all time option to search overview
  • Fix: search terms containing multiple words are now correctly filtered
  • Fix: filter is now case-insensitive

1.3.7

  • Updated domain in readme/files

1.3.6

  • Fix: random number one next to delete button

1.3.5

  • Name change

1.3.4

  • Mobile pagination
  • PHP docs update

1.3.3

  • WP 5.5 compatibility

1.3.2

  • Improvement: added support for Toolset search
  • Improvement: added option to provide your own search parameter

1.3.1

  • Fix: remove frequency numbers from overview

1.3.0

  • Changed to date-range picker
  • Load more searches in data range in the background
  • CSV export directly from server, allowing complete database download
  • State saving of order and page
  • Improved mobile and ipad design
  • Improved front-end search tracking
  • Ajax tracking made optional, default enabled when any one of the known ajax search plugins is active

1.2.1

  • Improved review notice dismissal

1.2.1

  • Improved review notice dismissal

1.2

  • Changed lay-out

1.1

  • Added text filter area to exclude terms from results
  • Added option to select which user roles can view the dashboard
  • Updated tour structure and added native WP buttons
  • Added suggested privacy statement text
  • Updating some strings
  • Fix: when same string is search, the time is now updated as well

1.0.0

  • Initial release