WordPress FullText Search
for powerful modern in-site search
Install this plug-in on your website and users will find all the data you have planned. Nothing will get lost.
A special algorithm makes searches several times faster, adds real relevance and displays results in a user-friendly way. You can search by titles, article text, meta fields, tags, categories, and even by file content!
Searching in PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, etc is currently supported.

The best solution to find attachments by their content
No need to code or set up for hours - it just works... Awesome!
One of the must-have plugins for the WordPress
Very flexible plugin, we solved all issues with the PDF files on our website with it

This product is designed (and still being developed) by an international team for WordPress users and enthusiasts from all over the world.
We take special steps to make it accessible to you. You can pay for the Pro license using Paypal or a credit card issued in ANY country.
How Does It Work?
A modern two-stage search approach
(this method is also used by Google, Yandex, Bing, and other popular search engines)

STAGE #1: Data Indexing
Immediately after activation, the plugin extracts all data from your website database (posts, meta fields, categories, tags, attachments' content, etc) and put it to a separate high-optimized structure, called "Word-based Search Index".
This index uses MySQL WordPress database but different tables. No existing data tables will be touched. This index will be kept in sync when you make any changes in WP.
Unlike Google or Bing, WPFTS Pro processes the internal data of the site, not HTML webpages. Thanks to this, even protected data is indexed and can be made available for search.
STAGE #2: Search and Display
When the website user makes the search, the plugin dynamically improves the standard WordPress search functionality (WP_Query) using hooks so WP uses the Word-based Index to search textual data. Thus all previously indexed data become searchable like usual posts.


Finally, the WPFTS plugin shows found records in a user-friendly manner (like Google does) using your existing theme page. You don't need to change any template for this. Even the attachment files will be magically shown in search results!
Has been running since 2016 on a variety of sites
Some More Details
The inbuilt ("standard") search in WordPress simply searches through all posts on your website, comparing the search request with the title and posts' content. The more files (posts, pages, etc.) the site has, the slower the search process will be. For example, if you website contains more than 10000 posts the search process can take from a few seconds to tens of seconds! It is not convenient for an end user and heavily overloads a server.
WordPress FullText Search plugin provides a background scan of all data (posts and pages) on your site, splitting them into separate words and writing a systematized structure in separate tables of database (the so-called "index"). At the same time, the search significantly speeds up because the index for the requested word (or the combination of words) immediately shows the list of all files where this word is used. Such algorithm works hundred, if not thousand times faster than the standard search. That is why a similar algorithm is used by Yandex, Google, Facebook, VKontakte and other popular search engines.
The complete search index is built once - after the first activation of the plugin. Thereafter WPFTS plugin will correct the data in the created index during adding, editing or deleting of posts/pages in a "clear" automatic mode.
The search index is saved and stored in a separate database. Your original data remains unchanged.
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