About this plugin
🚀 Supercharge Your WordPress Search with WP Fast Total Search (WPFTS)!
Tired of the standard WordPress search that doesn’t find what you need? Are your users struggling to find content hidden in meta fields, shortcodes, or even files?
WP Fast Total Search (WPFTS) is the solution that revolutionizes search on your site, making it truly fast, accurate, and comprehensive.
Why WPFTS is Exactly What You Need:
✨ Searches EVERYWHERE:
Unlike standard search, WPFTS indexes and finds information not only in post titles and content, but also within:
- Meta fields (Custom Fields)
- Custom Post Types
- Text inside shortcodes
- Content of attached files (PDF, DOCX, etc. in the Pro version)
- Dynamically generated content
⚙️ Simplicity and Compatibility:
- No External Dependencies: Doesn’t require installing heavy external services (like Elasticsearch or Solr). Perfect for standard shared hosting!
- Enhances, Doesn’t Replace: WPFTS enhances the standard WordPress search ( WP_Query ), it doesn’t break it. All your plugins and themes using standard search will automatically work better with WPFTS.
- Works Out-of-the-Box: Just install and activate.
🎯 Flexibility and Control:
- Customizable Relevance: Control what matters most in search results! Assign “weights” for title, content, and each meta field using an improved TF-IDF algorithm.
- Live Search (AJAX): Let users see search results instantly as they type. Easily added via the widget or shortcode [wpfts_widget].
- Phrase Search Support: Find exact matches.
- Flexible Sorting: Sort results by relevance, date, title, and many other parameters.
Key Advantages of WPFTS:
- ✅ True Indexed Search: Fast and efficient.
- ✅ No External Libraries or Services Required: Everything works right inside your website.
- ✅ HTML Cleanup: Correctly indexes content by removing tags and comments (important for Gutenberg).
- ✅ Language Support: Ready translations (English, German, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian) and easy to add your own.
- ✅ API and Documentation: Extend and customize the plugin to fit your needs.
- ✅ Compatibility: Works great with PHP 5.6 up to PHP 8.2+.
- ✅ Extensibility: Supports add-ons, with a large library available and the ability to create your own.
💎 Get Even More with WP Fast Total Search Pro!
The Pro version unlocks powerful features:
- 📄 Search Inside File Content: Indexes text within PDF, DOC, DOCX, and other formats.
- 🔍 Filter Search by File Type (MIME-type).
- 💡 Smart Excerpts: Displays PDF content snippets directly in search results.
- ☁️ Optional External Service for text extraction from files (license included).
- 🤝 Priority Technical Support: Help with installation, configuration, and conflict resolution.
- 🔄 Regular Auto-Updates: Just like plugins from the WordPress repository.
- 🧩 Premium Add-on Bundle: Integrations with popular plugins (WordPress Download Manager, Filebase Pro, Delicious Downloads, etc.) to index their content and files. Ability to request custom add-on development.
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🌍 Translations
We are grateful to the translators who made the plugin accessible worldwide:
- torkeller ( @torkeller ) for German and German_formal
- Peter Smits @psmits1567 for Dutch
- Lera Suhanova for Ukrainian
- epsiloncool @epsiloncool for Russian
Join us in translating the plugin into your language! Let’s make it useful for everyone.
📚 Documentation
Detailed information can be found in the Documentation.
Security Policy
Reporting Security Bugs
Please report security bugs found in the WP Fast Total Search plugin’s source code through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.