Aetos Arabic Search Normalizer
Aetos Arabic Search Normalizer improves normal front-end WordPress searches for Arabic visitors.
It keeps WordPress’s existing title, excerpt, and content matching, then adds a bounded normalized fallback for post titles and excerpts. For example, a search for احمد can find a title containing أَحْمَد, and مدرسه can find مدرسة.
The normalizer handles these common differences:
- Alef forms: ا, أ, إ, آ, and ٱ.
- Ta marbuta and ha: ة and ه.
- Ya and alef maqsura: ي and ى.
- Waw/ya with hamza: ؤ and ئ.
- Common Arabic diacritics and tatweel.
- Common Persian keyboard forms for kaf and ya.
The plugin works automatically with posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and other post types when their front-end search uses WordPress’s normal WP_Query search.
Performance boundaries
The plugin deliberately normalizes only the relatively short post_title and post_excerpt database columns. WordPress’s original post_content search remains active, but the plugin does not wrap full content in repeated SQL transformations.
Enhancement is skipped and the exact core search is preserved for admin, REST, Ajax, attachment, excluded-term, unusually long, or more than six-term searches. These are performance and compatibility boundaries, not paid limits.
The plugin creates no index, custom table, option, cookie, analytics record, scheduled task, REST route, or external request.
Privacy
The plugin sends no data outside the site and stores no search terms, settings, cookies, analytics, or personal data.