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WP PlugIndex currently records APSearch — Arabic & Persian Search version 0.1.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
WordPress search fails on Arabic-script languages, and it fails silently. A visitor searches کتابها and gets nothing, because the post says کتابها with a zero-width non-joiner. Someone types كتاب with an Arabic Kaf while the content uses the Persian ک.
A product title carries diacritics; the query does not. Every one of these is a lost search, a lost reader, and in a shop, a lost sale.
This plugin fixes it by keeping a normalized copy of your searchable text and matching queries against that copy.
What it normalizes
Yeh family: ي, ى, ئ, ے, ې → ی
Kaf family: ك, ڪ → ک
Alef family: أ, إ, آ, ٱ → ا
Heh family: ة, ۀ, ہ, ھ → ه
Diacritics (harakat), Quranic marks and kashida/tatweel are ignored
Arabic-Indic (٠-٩) and Extended Arabic-Indic (۰-۹) digits become 0-9
Zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ / نیمفاصله) and other invisible marks are ignored
Punctuation and repeated whitespace are ignored
Works with
The built-in search form and search results page
Any theme or block that runs a WP_Query search
WooCommerce product search (enable the product post type in settings)
The plugin sends nothing anywhere. It stores one normalized text field per post in your own database.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
arabic
farsi
persian
search
urdu
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 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity31 Aug 20262mo ago
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