Live suggestions
Product image, price, SKU and a description snippet as the customer types. Categories, tags and brands suggested alongside. Keyboard navigation and a full-screen overlay on phones.
A search plugin for WooCommerce
Your customers type.
The right product appears.
RangeSearch replaces WooCommerce's slow database scan with its own search index. Suggestions arrive in a few milliseconds, typos get corrected, and every search a customer makes is recorded so you can see what your store is missing.
2–5 ms query time on the dedicated endpoint. Measured, not estimated.
yourstore.com
Suggestions:
Default WooCommerce search loses sales
Out of the box, WordPress answers a search by scanning the whole
posts table with a LIKE '%query%' clause. It cannot
rank by relevance, it does not know what a SKU is, and one
misspelled letter returns an empty page. On a store with a few
thousand products it is also slow.
A customer who searches is a customer ready to buy. If the search comes back empty or wrong, they leave.
- Default engine
- full table scan per query
- RangeSearch engine
- inverted index, dedicated tables
- Default typo handling
- none, zero results
- RangeSearch typo handling
- corrects against your catalog
- Default ranking
- date published
- RangeSearch ranking
- relevance, weighted by field and sales
What it does
Search everything that matters
Titles, descriptions, SKUs including variation SKUs, GTIN/EAN barcodes, categories, tags, attributes, custom fields, posts, pages and custom post types. You choose the scope; the index follows.
Typo tolerance
"silverchar" finds Silverchair. Four correction strengths, a "showing results for" notice, and corrections work on category and tag suggestions too, because they live in the same index.
Synonyms & stopwords
Teach the engine your customers' vocabulary: "tee = t-shirt", one-way rules, multi-word phrases. Add stopwords in the settings, not in a code snippet.
Pinned results
Decide what ranks first. Pin any products to the top of chosen phrases from a plain settings field. Campaign week? Pin the bundle.
Search analytics
Every phrase, its result count, and what got clicked. A standing list of searches that returned nothing is your next product idea or synonym rule. CSV export included.
One engine everywhere
The dropdown and the results page share the same engine and the same ordering, so what customers preview is what they get after pressing Enter.
Made for your theme
Inherits your theme's fonts and colours instead of fighting them. Shortcode, widget, block, automatic WooCommerce form replacement, or attach it to any existing input with a CSS selector.
Built for developers
REST API, WP-CLI commands, documented filters for scoring and indexing, frontend events, and score debugging with a URL parameter. The index is four honest MySQL tables.
Fast because it skips the slow part
Suggestions are served by a dedicated endpoint that boots WordPress in a stripped-down mode: no theme, no other plugins, no REST stack. Just the index tables and an answer. If a security plugin blocks it, the search falls back to the REST API and then to admin-ajax on its own.
On a store running fifteen plugins, that is the difference between waiting for all fifteen to load and waiting for none of them.
- Engine query time
- 2–5 ms
- Endpoint overhead
- WordPress core only, no plugins or theme
- Index build, 50 products
- under 2 seconds
- Index updates
- automatic on product save, stock change, delete
- Timing in every response
"took": 2.4
Pricing
Free does the job. Pro does the job better, on one yearly subscription per store.
Free
$0
Everything a small store needs
- Live AJAX suggestions with images and prices
- Search titles, descriptions and SKUs
- Category and tag suggestions
- Results page powered by the same engine
- Mobile overlay, keyboard navigation
- Shortcode, widget, block, form replacement
- Search analytics with no-result phrases
Pro
$49/year per site
The full engine
- Dedicated fast endpoint (2–5 ms queries)
- Typo tolerance with four strengths
- Synonyms, stopwords, pinned results
- Variation SKUs, GTIN/EAN, attributes, custom fields
- Brands, custom post types, include/exclude rules
- Details panel, search history, voice search
- Click analytics, CSV export, GA4 events
- Scheduled index rebuilds
Pro licences activate instantly in the plugin settings and can move between sites. 14-day refund, no questions.
Questions
- Will it slow my site down?
- No. Searches never touch your theme or other plugins, and the index lives in its own tables. The rest of your site is untouched.
- Does it work with my theme?
- Yes. The search bar inherits your theme's styling, and if your theme already has a search input, RangeSearch can attach to it with a CSS selector instead of replacing your markup.
- What happens when I add or edit products?
- The index updates itself on save, stock change and delete. A scheduled rebuild is available as a safety net for bulk imports.
- Is it a FiboSearch alternative?
- Yes. RangeSearch is an independent plugin covering the same ground, with several things FiboSearch keeps in code snippets available as plain settings: stopwords, pinned results, per-group limits.
- What does the licence cover?
- One production site per licence, all Pro features, updates and support while the subscription is active. The free version keeps working if you cancel.