
WordPress’s native search ignores custom fields entirely. If your content lives in Advanced Custom Fields, WooCommerce product attributes, Pods, or any other post meta, visitors will never find it through the default search box. SearchWP Premium solves this by rebuilding the search index from the ground up — indexing custom fields, taxonomies, shortcode output, PDF text, and more — and returning relevance-ranked results that match how people actually search.
This package includes the core SearchWP plugin plus its premium addons, giving you a complete search infrastructure without piecing together multiple licenses.
Higher engagement: Visitors find relevant content faster, reducing bounce rate and increasing time on site.
More conversions: Ecommerce sites surface products by SKU, attributes, and custom specs — not just titles.
Content ROI: Older posts and deep archive pages become discoverable again.
Developer-friendly: Hooks, filters, and a REST API for custom integrations.
Performance focused: Indexing runs in the background; search queries hit optimized tables, not raw post meta.
Most search plugins only tweak the query. SearchWP rebuilds the index from the ground up, giving you control over what gets indexed, how it’s weighted, and how results are displayed. The included addons — Live AJAX Search, Metrics, Redirects, and more — would cost extra elsewhere. Everything is configured through a clean WordPress admin interface; no code changes required unless you want them.
Yes. It replaces the search query via WordPress hooks, so any theme that uses get_search_form() or WP_Query for search will automatically benefit.
Absolutely. Each engine lets you enable or disable specific post meta keys, taxonomies, and content types, and assign custom weights per source.
Indexing runs as a background process via WP Cron. Front-end searches query optimized tables, not raw post meta, so they’re typically faster than default search.
Yes. SearchWP supports both network-activated and per-site configurations, with a network admin dashboard for overseeing all subsites.
If your WordPress site relies on custom fields, plugin data, or structured content that the native search ignores, SearchWP Premium + Addons is the most direct path to a search experience that actually works. Install, choose your sources, adjust weights, and your visitors start finding what they came for — no rebuild required.