The search is one of the most important elements of any online store since in most cases it defines whether a potential customer remains on your site or, after not finding the right product, leaves it without even looking through what your store offers.
The search should work fast, show the results in the most convenient way and be a full-scale search so that even with the fuzzy key query, the user can see the results displayed and get interested in the products of the store.
The standard WooCommerce search allows you to search only after entering the full words in the search box. Then it displays the search results on a separate page.
In addition, it’s worth mentioning that the product name, which is quite enough for efficient store navigation can find a product only. There’s also great news that, by default, the store search copes with different word order patterns. For example, if you’re looking for “Long Sleeve Tee” and you enter “Tee Sleeve Long”, the store search will come up with the regular word order pattern, “Long Sleeve Tee”.
The standard search does not support the Live Search option, i.e. it does not show search results as you type in the search box.
The absence of this feature somewhat hinders search quality, as we’re so used to search usability offered by Google or Amazon.
There are no additional search settings in the standard WooCommerce search. All additional interface settings can only be done in the theme code.
Toolset’s search function works great not just on WooCommerce websites but really on any website you want to create.
Toolset gives you complete control over how your search works and looks. The best part is even programming novices can build it, as you don’t need any complex coding to implement it.
In fact, Toolset offers a Custom Types Training Course which will teach you how to create a search as well as other important features for advanced websites.
The features of the plugin:
Toolset’s search plugin contains a range of customization options which you can pick and choose from:
- Multiple types of filters such as text, numbers and checkboxes
- Control how your results are displayed – as a list, grid, map or any style you like
- Search through all your products and other content
- AJAX updates to change search results on the fly
- Sort your results based on filters
- Add paginations to your results
- Display results for products on custom maps to filter by distance or from your current location
- Search using quotes, ON and AND queries
Toolset is also compatible with other major plugins including WPML and Elementor.
The plugin is only available as a paid version. You can choose from three different Toolset accounts to buy.
This is one of the most popular plugins aimed at product search improvement in WooCommerce.
There is a free and paid edition of this plugin available. The plugin provides the Live Search option and has a number of settings to configure.
The plugin includes its own search index for products therefore, it’s important to reassign the product search index in the admin settings before the work starts. Plus, there’s also its own widget (different from the standard WooCommerce’s), so it’s important not to forget to replace it.
The free version features
The free plugin version is quite sufficient for the extended search settings and accurate search performance.
- An option to search by the product name
- An option to search by the variation name, category or short description
- An option to specify words to be ignored when searching
- Determining whether to show out-of-stock products in the search
- Showing the price in the autocomplete
- Showing the discount icon in the autocomplete
- A separate search widget
The premium version features
The premium version offers some additional interface customization options together with some functional features. Please check the following list.
- Showing a short description in the autocomplete
- Showing the rating in the autocomplete
- Showing the category in the autocomplete
- Selecting the category to search in, the search part (filter)
- Search results filtering option is very important in case there are too many search result items.
Doofinder is the site search for WooCommerce that integrates easily with WooCommerce shops.
So useful for customers, helping them to find products easily, because it understands their behavior, giving immediate and personalized results.
Their Site Search with Artificial Intelligence helps every eCommerce increase sales, with lots of functionalities. The customers surely will appreciate it, because their experience will improve when buying or searching for a product.
Doofinder Site Search features:
As previously said, Doofinder Site Search has functionalities to bring your eCommerce to the next level, as:
- Synonyms and autocomplete: allow you to find products despite the spelling mistakes.
- Visual and voice search: to help customers search in the way they want.
- Search filters: allow your customer to filter anyway, refining their search.
- Real-time statistics: information to understand your customers’ shopping behavior.
- Personalized results: to improve the user experience to the maximum.
Also, the installation is very easy. It takes only 5 minutes to install their Site Search in your WooCommerce online shop, no code is needed. Also, you can do their 30 days free trial.
YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search
This plugin is the most popular among all mentioned above as the number of its active downloads in the WordPress directory exceeds 100K.
There is a free and a paid edition of this plugin available.
For accurate plugin performance, it’s important to replace WooCommerce’s standard search widget for the new one, although it doesn’t need any additional re-indexation and starts operating right after its installation.
The free version features
The free version is very limited, although it offers the Live Search option.
- An option to search by the product name
- Highlighting the words the product was found for
- A separate search widget
The premium version features
The premium version contains a range of settings for customization. Mostly customizations refer to the live search widget interface. The search itself and the search results page is displayed with the help of WooCommerce. The search results filtering option is not available.
- An option to search by the variation name, category or short description
- Different settings for the autocomplete display: showing images, short descriptions, prices, ratings, and categories in the autocomplete
- Selecting the category to search in, the search part (filter)
- Showing the “Out of stock” icon
This is a new plugin that is not as popular as the ones mentioned earlier, although it suggests some interesting features that have not been presented yet in the existing solutions.
This plugin is available only as a free version. It supports the Live Search functionality and automatically displays the search results as the user types.
The plugin uses WooCommerce’s standard widget, therefore no additional settings are required. Moreover, it conducts its own product indexation for a quick search, so all you need is to click the indexation button in the search settings.
The features of the plugin
The main feature of this plugin is its search algorithm. It is looking for the products even if there is a mistake in the user’s search query.
- Searching despite a mistake (a typo) in the search query
- Search for the similar words
- Search for the words with the same pronunciation
- Search for the transliterated words
- Displaying the filter by the search results with the help of the Premmerce WooCommerce Product Filter plugin
- Expanding the capabilities of the Product Search WooCommerce widget.
Conclusions
Basically, there are three plugins that can greatly expand the basic WooCommerce search functionality. Each plugin conducts a search with the help of Live Search in the free version and offers some additional features in the paid one.
We highly recommend that you use an additional search plugin, as it will definitely increase your online store conversion.
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