CelerSearch – Lightning Fast Search with Meilisearch

CelerSearch routes WordPress search through Meilisearch. Sub-50ms responses, typo tolerance, autocomplete, highlighting, and full WooCommerce support — with an admin UI built for day-to-day use, not just setup.

🔍 Search

• Millisecond results on any site size
• Typo tolerance and stemming out of the box
• Live autocomplete as users type
• Match highlighting on titles and excerpts
• Category, tag, and custom-taxonomy filtering
• Custom search results pages via Views + block/shortcode
• Native WordPress search fallback when Meilisearch is unreachable

🗂 Indexing

• Posts, pages, any custom post type
• WooCommerce products (including variations) and orders
• Real-time sync on publish, update, trash, and watched meta changes
• Manual rebuild with configurable batch size
• Per-index searchable, filterable, sortable attributes + synonyms — all editable in the admin
• Content splitting for long posts (configurable; Meilisearch deduplicates results)

🌐 Where search runs

• Frontend site search (replace the default results page with a custom View)
• Admin list search (posts, products, media)
• REST API search (headless/decoupled setups)
• AJAX-faceted WooCommerce shop & archive filters

🎯 Use cases

• WooCommerce stores with thousands of orders — native admin order search slows to a crawl and misses matches as the orders table grows. Enable the ”WooCommerce Admin Orders Search” area and lookups stay instant at any scale.
• Product catalogs with rich attributes — drive shop and category archives with AJAX-faceted filters for color, size, brand, price, plus typo-tolerant keyword search.
• Content-heavy sites (news, blogs, documentation) — replace the frontend search with live autocomplete and fuzzy matching so readers find posts by typing a few characters.
• Custom post types at scale — directories, job boards, listings. Native WP search is a slow LIKE '%…%' across a handful of columns; CelerSearch indexes every field and ranks by relevance.

🧑‍💻 Developer-friendly

• 40+ filter hooks across indexing, search, and results
• Extend with your own index types (celersearch_supported_indices)
• Custom search-area types (celersearch_area_types) for BuddyPress, LearnDash, etc.
• Taxonomy-aware queries translate WP_Query tax_query to the engine filter syntax

Full documentation at docs.celersearch.com.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+
• PHP 8.1+
• A Meilisearch instance — self-host on your VPS, or get a managed one at celersearch.com from $10/mo.

🚀 Getting started

After activation a welcome notice points you to the setup flow:

1. Stand up Meilisearch — self-host (guide) or use celersearch.com
2. Add the service under CelerSearch → Services
3. Create an index under CelerSearch → Indices and rebuild it
4. Enable the relevant search area under CelerSearch → Settings