FullText Search

A WordPress plugin that indexes all content on-site for fast full-text search, including posts, pages, PDFs, meta fields, taxonomies, and shortcode content.

It works without external services and aims to return relevant results in milliseconds.

Who it's for

Developers, power users and agencies streamlining site building and workflows

  • Sites with large amounts of content
  • Directories that search custom fields

Best FullText Search features

  • Indexed search

    Builds a search index in the WordPress database for fast results.

  • Meta field search

    Searches custom fields, taxonomies, and shortcode content.

  • Relevance tuning

    Weights titles, text, and specific fields to rank results.

  • Smart excerpts

    Shows highlighted snippets so visitors can judge a result.

  • File content search

    Searches the text of PDF and DOCX files (Pro).

  • Developer API

    Hooks and filters for custom search behaviour.

FullText Search pricing

All plans and prices
  • ProStarts here

    $79/year

    Unlimited sites

    • Search in file content (PDF, DOCX)
    • Filter by file type
    • Premium support
7.9/10
  • Free version on WordPress.org with core indexed search
  • No external search service or server needed
  • Works on standard shared hosting
  • File content search (PDF, DOCX) is only in the Pro version
  • Pro updates and support need an active license

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