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Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter

The Best Ajax Live Search and Filter for WordPress. Live suggestions, Custom Post types, Custom fields, Categories, WooCommerce & Elementor support

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version4.14.7
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 3.5 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update19 Oct 202614d ago
Active installations70K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.8 / 5 from 266 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter version 4.14.7 as active, updated 14d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Ajax Search Lite is a live search plugin for WordPress. This responsive live search engine, which will boost your user experience by providing a user friendly ajax powered search form – a live search bar. You can filter the results with the category and post type filter boxes as well.

Google autocomplete and keyword suggestions also included.

Very smooth animations with mobile device support and regular updates. Use Ajax Search Lite as a replacement for the default WordPress search with a better looking, more efficient search engine.

Fine-tune the user experience by providing a powerful ajax search plugin to your visitors. Supports custom post types and custom fields and more. Boost your site search engine with this custom built live search engine.

Home | Features | Lite Docs | Pro Docs

Ajax Search Lite and Ajax Search Pro does not require monthly subscriptions, does not store your data on external servers – everything is done locally, on your server.

Features List

  • Search in posts and pages
  • Search in custom post types such as WooCommerce Products, Events, Portfolio items and more
  • Search in title, description, excerpt, categories and tags and any custom fields
  • Archive page live loader and filter
  • Automatic search replacement as well as widget and shortcode availalbe
  • Custom Filter boxes (checkbox filters) for categories and post types
  • WPML, Polylang and QtranslateX compatible
  • Live Search Statistics
  • Super Fast Search Cache – instant cached results
  • 10+ built in templates + options for color adjustments
  • Retina ready vectorized SVG and CSS3 icons
  • Category and post exclusions
  • Frontend search settings boxes
  • Images in search results
  • Fully ajax powered
  • 50+ options on the backend
  • Caches images for faster response time
  • Performance Options
  • Google analytics integration – both as Events and Pageviews
  • Primary and Secondary ordering options
  • Highly compatible and responsive

Support

Feel free to contact us via the support forums.

In Pro version

  • Front-end demo | Back-end demo
  • Create multiple search bars with different configurations
  • All page builders supported (Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Breakdance, Gutenberg, Beaver etc..)
  • Search in Every custom post type
  • Search in Media Attachments and contents (PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc..)
  • Search in BuddyPress activity feed, users and group names
  • Search in PeepSo Groups and Group Activities
  • Search result grouping by categories or post types
  • Search in custom fields including repeaters and special custom field taypes
  • Predictive search results suggestions
  • WooCommerce Shop search and filter
  • Search and filter Elementor Loop Grid and JetEngine Listing Grid
  • Advanced caching technology – image precaching, search phrase caching
  • Category filters, custom field filters, post type filters, tag filters, taxonomy term filters and date filters
  • Checkbox, Drop-down, Multiselect, Radio, Slider and Range slider filters
  • Results grouping by category, post type or content type
  • Load more and Inifinite scroll
  • 100+ Themes – Fully configurable and editable – with theme customizer & preview window
  • 4 layouts: Vertical, Horizontal, Polaroid and Isotopic (with pagination)
  • 400+ Admin options
  • Google keyword suggestions and autocomplete
  • Compatibility options and features
  • Caching options & Search statistics
  • Keyword Highlighting & more…
  • Highly compatible and responsive
  • Full Features List

Testimonials

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“Beyond the live search, it also makes your search much more complete. ” – Ben Pines – Elementor

” – Tom Ewer – WPMU Dev

“Ajax Search Pro plugin gives you a live Ajax search, so much comfortable search experience” – Dragan Nikolic – Thematosoup

” – Colin Newcomer – aThemes

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • better search
  • live search
  • product search
  • woocommerce search
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity19 Oct 202614d ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version4.14.64.14.7
Version4.14.54.14.6
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.3
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