Advanced Woo Search vs SearchWP
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| Feature | Advanced Woo Search v3.73 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | SearchWP v4.6.1.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 70,000+ | — |
| Last updated | October 20, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Advanced Woo Search · Advanced Woo Search PRO ($) | SearchWP ($) |
| Pros | Live AJAX search across product fields with a dedicated index table; Gutenberg blocks, a widget and an Elementor widget for placing the form; Did-you-mean suggestions and search terms display | Indexes posts, taxonomies, attachments, comments and users; Fuzzy, partial and synonym matching with stopword control; Search forms placed by shortcode or Gutenberg block |
| Cons | The readme lists several search sources and layouts as PRO-only; Index rebuilds run as background jobs, which need cron to run on time | Paid licence required; this code has no free edition; Weekly usage tracking runs unless a filter disables it |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | AJAX live search results, Background search index table kept in sync with products, Search results page replacement, Did-you-mean and similar-term suggestions, Gutenberg search blocks, Elementor search widget, WP-CLI command to rebuild the index | Index posts, taxonomies, attachments, comments and users ($), Fuzzy and partial matching ($), Synonyms and stopwords ($), Search form Gutenberg block ($), searchwp_template shortcode for results ($), Weekly email summaries ($), Page builder search blocks ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | WooCommerce ($) |
| Plugins | Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPML | Divi ($), bbPress ($), WPML ($), Polylang ($), Elementor ($), Advanced Custom Fields ($), WP All Import ($) |
| Requires WordPress | 4.0 | 5.3 |
| Requires PHP | 7.0 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | Yes |
| External services | — | searchwp.com, plugin.searchwp.com, swpusage.com |
| Blocks | 3 | 3 |
| Shortcodes | 6 | 2 |