Relevanssi
100,000+ active installs · Rated 4.8/5 · Updated October 23, 2026
A search plugin that replaces the standard WordPress search with a relevance-ranked engine. It supports partial-word matching, phrase searches, custom excerpts with highlighted terms, and searching comments, tags, categories and custom fields, with multisite support. It suits sites with lots of content where date-ordered results fall short, though its index needs considerable database space. A free version is available, and Relevanssi Premium adds more features.
Pros
- Relevance-sorted results with partial-word matching
- Compatibility modules for WooCommerce, Polylang, WPML and ACF
- Search log and did-you-mean suggestions
Cons
- Index tables can need hundreds of megabytes of database space
- Some advanced features are only in Relevanssi Premium
- Search log stores what visitors search for, which may need a privacy notice
Topics: Search plugins , Translation plugins , WooCommerce plugins
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