Live suggestions
Product image, price, SKU and a snippet of the description, as the customer types, with categories, tags and brands alongside. On phones the whole thing goes full-screen, and the keyboard works throughout.
Better WooCommerce search
RangeSearch swaps WooCommerce's database scan for a real search index. Your customers get answers in a few milliseconds, misspellings still find the product, and you get a list of every phrase they tried.
2–5 ms per query on the dedicated endpoint, measured on a live store.
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2–5 ms
Engine query time
0
Plugins loaded per search
3
Endpoint fallbacks, automatic
< 2 s
Index build, 50 products
Default WooCommerce search loses sales
Someone using your search box has already decided to buy something. If the results come back empty or irrelevant, they'll go and buy it somewhere else.
WordPress out of the box
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Scans the whole posts table with
LIKE '%query%' - Orders results by date published, not relevance
- Doesn't know what a SKU is
- One misspelled letter returns an empty page
- No record of what customers searched for
With RangeSearch
- An inverted index in dedicated tables, built for lookups
- Relevance ranking, weighted by field and by sales
- SKUs, variation SKUs and GTIN/EAN barcodes indexed
- Typos corrected against your own catalogue
- Every phrase and click recorded, with CSV export
What it does
You configure all of this from the plugin's settings screens. Nothing here needs a snippet in functions.php.
Search everything that matters
Titles, descriptions, SKUs including variation SKUs, GTIN/EAN barcodes, categories, tags, attributes, custom fields, posts, pages and custom post types. Pick what counts as searchable and the index rebuilds around it.
Synonyms & stopwords
Your customers call it a tee, your catalogue calls it a t-shirt. Map one to the other, add one-way rules and multi-word phrases, and keep your stopword list on the same settings screen.
Pinned results
Decide what ranks first. Pin any product to the top of any phrase from a plain settings field, so the bundle you're pushing this week sits above everything else.
Made for your theme
Inherits your theme's fonts and colours instead of fighting them. Drop it in as a shortcode, widget or block, let it replace the WooCommerce form, or point it at your existing search 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.
Typos still find the product
Type "silverchar" and you get Silverchair. Corrections are checked against the words in your own catalogue, so it only ever suggests things you actually sell.
- Four correction strengths, from conservative to aggressive
- A "showing results for" notice so nothing feels like a guess
- Corrections apply to category and tag suggestions too, because they live in the same index
waterprof jaket
Showing results for waterproof jacket
RW
Ridgeline Waterproof Jacket
JKT-210 · Jackets
$189
TS
Traverse Softshell Jacket
JKT-118 · Jackets
$139
WP
Waterproof Pack Liner
ACC-330 · Packs
$25
See what your customers can't find
Every phrase, how many results it returned, and what got clicked afterwards. The list of searches that came back empty is the useful one: each row is either a product you should stock or a synonym you should add.
- No-result phrases collected separately and kept
- Click tracking, so you know which suggestion won
- CSV export and GA4 events for your own reporting
Top searches, last 30 days
| Phrase | Searches | Results |
|---|---|---|
| waterproof jacket | 412 | 18 |
| merino socks | 287 | 6 |
| gore tex bibs | 134 | 0 |
| trekker 40l | 96 | 2 |
| childrens harness | 71 | 0 |
Fast because it skips the slow part
Suggestions come from a dedicated endpoint that boots WordPress in a stripped-down mode, skipping your theme, your other plugins and the REST stack entirely. It loads the index tables and answers.
- If a security plugin blocks the endpoint, the search falls back to the REST API and then to admin-ajax on its own
- The dropdown and the results page share one engine and one ordering, so the preview matches what comes after Enter
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Every response carries its own timing:
"took": 2.4
Where a keystroke goes
- 1 Dedicated endpoint 2–5 ms
- 2 REST API fallback
- 3 admin-ajax fallback
Step 1 loads WordPress core and nothing else. On a store running fifteen plugins, that's the difference between waiting for all fifteen and waiting for none of them.
Pricing
The free version is a complete plugin, not a trial. Pro adds the parts that need the full engine, on as many sites as you run.
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
Most popular
Pro — single site
$49 /year
One production site. Everything in Free, plus:
- 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 — 5 sites
$99 /year
For people running a few stores.
- Every Pro feature, on up to five production sites
- One key for all of them, no separate purchases
- Move an activation between sites yourself
- Spend one on a staging site if you test there
Pro — unlimited
$199 /year
For agencies and multi-store operators.
- Every Pro feature, on as many sites as you run
- One key, no seat counting
- Add client sites without buying again
- Staging and development sites included
Your licence key arrives with your receipt and activates in the plugin settings. Manage your subscription, payment method and invoices any time from your account. 14-day refund, no questions asked.
Questions
If yours isn't here, email us and we'll answer it.
Will it slow my site down?
No. Searches never touch your theme or other
plugins, and the index lives in its own tables. Nothing else on your
site changes.
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.
Can I move a licence to another site?
Yes. Deactivate it in the plugin settings on
the old site and activate it on the new one. A licence covers one
production site at a time.
What happens if I stop paying?
The plugin keeps working with the free feature
set. Your settings stay where they are, and everything switches back
on if you renew.
Try it on your own catalogue
Download the free plugin, run the index once, then type into your own store's search bar. That's the whole setup.