Description
Softlinkster Semantic Search is a powerful self-hosted search plugin for WordPress. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, all processing happens on your server — no external API calls, and no data leaving your site.
Core Features
- BM25 Ranking — Industry-standard text relevance scoring with TF-IDF weighting.
- Live AJAX Search — Instant search dropdown with thumbnails, prices, keyboard navigation, and accessibility.
- Faceted Filtering — Filter results by category, tag, post type, price range, stock status, and product attributes.
- WooCommerce Integration — Search products by SKU, attributes, variations; display prices and ratings in results.
- Multilingual Support — 10 language processors (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, CJK, and more).
- Search Analytics — Top queries, zero-result queries, CTR, click tracking, and CSV export.
- Did You Mean — Automatic spell correction with clickable suggestions.
- Zero-Result Fallback — Show popular content, recent posts, and trending queries when no results match.
- Rich Result Cards — Thumbnails, excerpts, prices, star ratings, and post type badges.
- Privacy-First — GDPR-compliant with anonymized session tracking, data export, and erasure.
- WP-CLI Commands — Index, reindex, compute IDF stats, export analytics, and diagnose.
- Theme-Aware Search UI — Search results, zero-result screens, and live search styling adapt to the active theme for readable output.
- Classic Widget Support — Add the search form to widget areas in traditional WordPress themes.
Search Modes
- BM25 — Pure text relevance scoring for blazing fast, highly accurate local searches.
Installation
- Upload the
softlinkster-semantic-searchdirectory to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin from Plugins.
- Open the Softlinkster Semantic Search admin menu.
- Start building your index from the Indexer page.
FAQ
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Does it work without WooCommerce?
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Yes. It degrades gracefully to post/page search.
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Does it support Polylang and WPML?
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Yes, with graceful fallback when unavailable.
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How does the live search work?
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It uses the REST API with debounced AJAX requests. No page reload needed. Results appear in a dropdown with thumbnails, prices, and keyboard navigation.
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Is it GDPR compliant?
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Yes. Search analytics use anonymized session hashes. The plugin registers WordPress data exporters and erasers for privacy compliance.
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Does it work with block themes and classic themes?
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Yes. The plugin integrates with normal WordPress search flows on both block and classic themes. Classic themes can also use the included search widget in widget areas.
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Historique des changements
2.1.0
- Fixed analytics recording, click tracking, privacy exporter/eraser support, and admin dashboard wiring.
- Improved REST/auth handling, cache invalidation, query filtering, and search pipeline performance.
- Cleaned up branding, input sanitization, test fixtures, and WordPress.org review compliance issues.
2.0.0
- Live AJAX Instant Search — Real-time dropdown with debouncing, keyboard navigation, thumbnails, query highlighting, WooCommerce prices, and dark mode support.
- Faceted Filtering — Category, tag, post type, price range, stock status, and attribute facets.
- Enhanced Analytics Dashboard — Summary stat cards (total searches, CTR, avg results, zero-result rate) and Most Clicked Posts table.
- Zero-Result Fallback Page — Popular content, recent posts, and trending query suggestions.
- Rich Search Result Cards — Thumbnails, excerpts, WooCommerce prices, star ratings, post type badges.
- « Did You Mean » UI — Clickable spell correction suggestions on search results page and in live dropdown.
- Search Form Rendering — Added
resultsLayout(cards/list) andshowFacetsattributes for rendered search forms. - Incremental Indexing — Content hash check skips unchanged posts during re-indexing.
- Accessibility — ARIA roles, combobox patterns, keyboard navigation, screen reader labels.
- Dark Mode — Full dark mode support for live search dropdown, facets, and result cards.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- BM25 engine support.
- Multilingual processing and CJK bigram tokenization.
- WooCommerce indexing and price query parsing.
- REST API, WP-CLI, analytics, and admin UI.