About this plugin
Plattio Search helps WooCommerce customers find products faster without adding a heavy search platform to your store.
Display the search as a compact icon that opens a slide-out field, or as a permanently visible search bar. Results update while the customer types and may include product images, prices, quantity controls and direct add-to-cart actions.
The plugin also includes a lightweight zero-result search report. Store owners can see which searches returned no products, identify missing products or common synonyms, mark opportunities as resolved and export the filtered report as CSV.
Live WooCommerce product search
- Fast live results with product image, title and price.
- Multiple matching methods for SKU, product title, category and fuzzy fallback matching.
- Two display modes: compact search icon or visible search bar.
- Direct cart actions for simple purchasable products.
- Quantity controls when direct add-to-cart is enabled.
- Variable product handling: products requiring options open their product page.
- Body-level result portal to prevent clipping inside sticky headers, builders and overflow containers.
- Keyboard navigation and an accessible live-result region.
Search suggestions
- Select existing WooCommerce categories and products as manual suggestions.
- Optionally show popular searches to new visitors and recently used searches to returning visitors.
- Suggestions remain hidden until the customer clicks or taps inside the search field.
- Programmatic focus, animations, resizing and unrelated page interactions do not open the result panel.
Zero-result search report
The report is available under WooCommerce > Settings > Plattio Search > Statistics.
- See search phrases that returned no products.
- View total searches, language, first seen and last seen dates.
- Filter by 7, 30 or 90 days, or view all stored data.
- Filter open and resolved merchandising opportunities.
- Mark phrases as resolved or reopen them later.
- Delete individual phrases or clear all zero-result data.
- Export the active filtered report as a UTF-8 CSV file.
- Exclude store administrators from tracking by default.
The reporting system is intentionally lightweight. It uses one local aggregated table, no external analytics service, no background cron jobs and no charting framework.
International and RTL ready
Plattio Search includes translations for 32 WordPress locales. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu include RTL support, and the frontend and administration screens follow WordPress’ active text direction.
Designed for WordPress and WooCommerce
- Uses WordPress and WooCommerce APIs.
- Declares WooCommerce HPOS compatibility.
- Loads frontend assets only when required.
- Loads administration assets only on Plattio Search settings screens.
- Uses capability checks, nonces, sanitization and escaped output.
- Supports WordPress multisite installation and cleanup.
Shortcode
Use the basic shortcode:
[plattio_search]
Visible search bar:
" width="520px" limit="6"]
Compact search icon:
" width="520px" icon_color="#000000" icon_hover_color="#0e3f3f" primary_color="#0e3f3f" icon_size="25px" button_size="38px" height="44px" border_radius="10px" close_button="yes" limit="6"]
Search with direct add-to-cart:
" add_to_cart="yes" add_button_text="Add" options_button_text="Choose options" limit="6"]
Available attributes
- display – icon or bar.
- placeholder – Search-field placeholder text.
- width – Maximum field and result-panel width.
- height – Search-field height.
- button_size – Search-button size.
- icon_size – Search-icon size.
- border_radius or radius – Field and panel corner radius.
- icon_color – Default search-icon color.
- icon_hover_color – Search-icon hover color.
- close_color – Close-button color.
- close_hover_color – Close-button hover color.
- primary_color – Primary accent color for one shortcode instance.
- close_button – yes or no.
- limit – Number of live products, from 1 to 10.
- add_to_cart – yes or no.
- add_button_text – Button text for simple products.
- options_button_text – Button text for products requiring options.
- post_type – Retained for shortcode compatibility; live results remain limited to WooCommerce products.
The built-in shortcode generator hides options that do not apply to the selected display mode.
Privacy
When zero-result tracking is enabled, Plattio Search stores only:
- The normalized search phrase.
- The active site language.
- An aggregated search count.
- The first-seen time.
- The last-seen time.
- The open or resolved report status.
The zero-result report does not store raw IP addresses, WordPress user IDs or tracking cookies, and it does not send analytics data to an external service.
Duplicate suppression is kept in memory while the page is open and does not write the search phrase to browser storage. Public AJAX endpoints use a temporary one-way request hash for abuse prevention.
Store administrators can disable zero-result tracking, exclude users who can manage WooCommerce, export the report, delete individual entries or remove all stored report data. Suggested text is also added to the WordPress Privacy Policy Guide.
Support
For help with installation, configuration or troubleshooting:
- Use the WordPress.org support forum for Plattio Search.
- Email [email protected].
- Documentation: https://plattio.no/docs/?pkb_product=plattio-search
When requesting support, include your WordPress version, WooCommerce version, Plattio Search version, active theme, shortcode and a clear description of the issue.