Softlinkster Semantic Search
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Self-hosted WordPress search with relevant results, live AJAX search, WooCommerce support, multilingual indexing, and privacy-safe analytics.
Softlinkster Semantic Search is a powerful self-hosted search plugin for WordPress. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, all processing happens on your server — no external API calls, and no data leaving your site.
Core Features
- BM25 Ranking — Industry-standard text relevance scoring with TF-IDF weighting.
- Live AJAX Search — Instant search dropdown with thumbnails, prices, keyboard navigation, and accessibility.
- Faceted Filtering — Filter results by category, tag, post type, price range, stock status, and product attributes.
- WooCommerce Integration — Search products by SKU, attributes, variations; display prices and ratings in results.
- Multilingual Support — 10 language processors (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, CJK, and more).
- Search Analytics — Top queries, zero-result queries, CTR, click tracking, and CSV export.
- Did You Mean — Automatic spell correction with clickable suggestions.
- Zero-Result Fallback — Show popular content, recent posts, and trending queries when no results match.
- Rich Result Cards — Thumbnails, excerpts, prices, star ratings, and post type badges.
- Privacy-First — GDPR-compliant with anonymized session tracking, data export, and erasure.
- WP-CLI Commands — Index, reindex, compute IDF stats, export analytics, and diagnose.
- Theme-Aware Search UI — Search results, zero-result screens, and live search styling adapt to the active theme for readable output.
- Classic Widget Support — Add the search form to widget areas in traditional WordPress themes.
Search Modes
- BM25 — Pure text relevance scoring for blazing fast, highly accurate local searches.