About this plugin
WordPress search matches raw substrings against post titles and content. It ignores custom fields, cannot rank by relevance, and gives up on a single typo. OZY Smart Search replaces it.
Ranked results. Okapi BM25 scoring over a purpose-built index, with per-field weights. A title match outranks a passing mention in a paragraph.
Typo tolerance. When an exact search comes up short, near-miss words are tried, scored below exact matches so a real hit always wins.
Custom fields. Advanced Custom Fields, Secure Custom Fields, Meta Box, CMB2, Carbon Fields and core meta are detected automatically, including repeaters, groups and flexible content.
WooCommerce. Products, variations, SKUs and attributes are indexed. Result cards show price, stock, rating and add-to-cart, and respect catalogue visibility.
Optional semantic search. Add a key from one of the supported AI providers and results start matching by meaning, not just wording. Several providers have a free tier.
Without a provider the plugin never contacts an external service.
Design without CSS. Six presets and full control over colour, type, spacing, shape, shadow, hover and motion, with a live preview — and the same controls again on the widget itself in every page builder.
Works where you build. Native widgets for the block editor, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Oxygen, Bricks, Avada and Brizy. A shortcode covers everything else.
Leave the default-search replacement on and your theme’s existing search form starts using it with no template changes.
Analytics that suggest fixes. See what visitors search for, what found nothing, and where they click — then get concrete suggestions: a page worth writing, a synonym worth adding, a field worth weighting higher.
Everything is free
There is no pro version, no feature lock, no trial and no upsell. This plugin is how people find OZY Solutions, and that is the whole model.
Features
- Live AJAX search with debouncing and in-memory response caching
- BM25 relevance ranking with configurable per-field weights
- Fuzzy matching for typos
- Optional semantic search and AI reranking
- Multiple independent search engines per site
- Custom field indexing across six field plugins
- WooCommerce products, variations, SKUs and attributes
- Synonyms and stopwords, with CSV import
- Faceted filtering: post type, taxonomy, price, date, author, rating, stock
- Search results page with sorting, filter chips and pagination
- Search analytics with zero-result tracking and recommendations
- Voice search using the browser Speech Recognition API
- Recent and popular searches
- Full keyboard navigation and WCAG 2.1 AA support
- Dark mode, reduced motion and high contrast support
- Multisite, WPML and Polylang
- Cache plugin compatibility: WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3TC, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache
- REST API and WP-CLI commands
- Theme-overridable templates and documented hooks
Privacy
Search analytics are stored in your own database. IP addresses are hashed with SHA-256 and never stored raw; session identifiers are random. There is no telemetry, no licence check and no phone-home of any kind.
The plugin registers suggested privacy policy text and hooks into the WordPress personal data export and erase tools.
External Services
This plugin connects to third-party AI services only when the site administrator explicitly configures a provider and supplies an API key. No data is sent to any external service by default, and the plugin is fully functional without any provider.
The following services may be used based on your configuration:
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- Purpose: generate text embeddings for semantic search, and optionally rerank results
- Data sent: the text of indexed content, and search queries entered by visitors
- When: during indexing, and when a search runs with semantic mode enabled
- Terms of service: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
- Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
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- Purpose: optional AI reranking of search results and query understanding
- Data sent: the search query and the titles and excerpts of candidate results
- When: only when AI reranking or query understanding is enabled
- Terms of service: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms
- Privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
com)
- Purpose: optional AI reranking of search results and query understanding
- Data sent: the search query and the titles and excerpts of candidate results
- When: only when AI reranking or query understanding is enabled
- Terms of service: https://groq.com/terms-of-use/
- Privacy policy: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/
dev)
- Purpose: generate text embeddings for semantic search, and optionally rerank results
- Data sent: the text of indexed content, and search queries entered by visitors
- When: during indexing, and when a search runs with semantic mode enabled
- Terms of service: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
- Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
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- Purpose: generate text embeddings for semantic search, and optionally rerank results
- Data sent: the text of indexed content, and search queries entered by visitors
- When: during indexing, and when a search runs with semantic mode enabled
- Terms of service: https://mistral.ai/terms
- Privacy policy: https://mistral.ai/terms#privacy-policy
If no provider is configured, this plugin operates entirely on your own server using keyword-based search with fuzzy matching, and does not contact any external service.