WooCommerce Predictive Search

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WooCommerce Predictive Search engine delivers users instant and changing results as they type in the dropdown which shows the product thumbnail, product title and description. Users can click through from the dropdown to the ‘All Results Search page’ that features endless scroll. KEY FEATURES Search objects include Product name, Post name, Page name Add Predictive Search box via the WooCommerce Predictive Search Widget to any widgetized area on your site WooCommerce Predictive Search engine delivers 100% accurate results, 100% of the time. Super-fast results even on sites with 1,000’s of products, posts and pages Results show in search box dropdown as soon as you start to type. Full in plugin search box and search results dropdown style and layout options Click through to see all search results on a designated page (features endless scroll) Pretty URL for the All Search Results pages. WOOCOMMERCE PREDICTIVE SEARCH WIDGET Add Predictive Search box via the WooCommerce Predictive Search Widget Set Placeholder text that shows in the search box on front end – example ‘Type your search here’ Choose which objects- Products, Posts, Pages should be included in the search Set the number of results to show for each object type e.g. Products 6 When there are more results than can show in the dropdown a link is added to the dropdown footer to see all results Set order that the search object shows in the dropdown and on the All Results Search page. Option to show just product, post, page title in results Option to show or not show Product, Post or page feature image thumbnail with results Option to show or not show description extract with results including the length in characters Option show or not show Product prices Add any number of Predictive Search Widgets to widget areas around your site ALL SEARCH RESULTS PAGE On install the plugin auto creates a WooCommerce Predictive Search page with shortcode Page title and url can be edited to your liking All results search page shows results in list format with Object sort All results search page results show with endless scroll feature Option to set the number of results to show per endless scroll action – default is 10 Option to show description extracts and set the number of description characters to show – default is 100 characters Option to show or not show product SKU with Products search results Option to show or not show product prices with Product search results Option to show or not show Add to cart button with Product search results Option to show or not show Categories meta for each Product and Post result Option to show or not show the Tags meta for each Product and Post result All results show with featured image thumbnails EXCLUDE FROM SEARCH RESULTS Exclude any product from showing in Predictive Search results Exclude any post from showing in Predictive Search results Exclude any page from showing in Predictive Search Results SPECIAL CHARACTERS Special Characters near match. Query strings that CONTAINS a special character eg d’E return all matches found for d’e and de. Special Characters Prepend and Append near match e.g. Query (Purple) will return all matches found for (Purple) and Purple. Option to turn Special Characters Function ON or OFF Option to select any Special Characters used on your site. Results returned with or without special character input SINGULAR / PLURAL RESULT(s) Returns results when user adds plural (s) to search term – the s is ignored e.g. bike and bikes will both return the same results TECHNICAL FEATURES Predictive Search Database is auto updated each time a Product, Post or Page is created, updated or deleted Manual Database Sync option to manually sync Predictive Search database with WooCommerce and WordPress databases if required No Conflict. Can be used in conjunction with any other Search plugin without conflicts occurring Woocommerce Predictive Search front end JavaScript functions are built in backbone.js Backbone makes Predictive Search an incredibly robust, powerful and lightweight application All front end calls now via WooCommerce Legacy API instead of ajax-admin.php The All Results Search Pages is a backbone.js (SPA) Single Page Application Backbone stack backbone/underscore/router used for the All Results Search page The Sort product by search object loads the results without loading a new page Results are cached not on your server but on the user’s machine via Backbone.localStorage.js PREMIUM VERSION For those that want a deeper store search there is the Premium Predictive Search plugin. The Premium has all of the features of the FREE version plus these advanced search features Additional Search objects – Product Attributes, Product SKU, Variation SKU’s, Product Category and Product Tags Search in Product Category Feature. From Search box use can select a Product category and Search just within that category or select a category and click the search icon and will open the Product category page Predictive Search PHP tag for adding search to your sites header (when header does not support widgets) or into theme templates Shortcode – Add search box to any product post or page by shortcode A second dynamic search box template (Header Template) for making different search box styles Focus Keywords – Predictive Search meta section on each product page, post and page for setting ‘Focus Keywords and Keyword Phrases’ Full integration with Yoast SEO and All in One SEO plugins Full integration with the Google Analytics Site Search Feature Performance enhancement settings for sites that have very large stores example 10,000+ products or posts CONTRIBUTE When you download WooCommerce Predictive Search, you join our the a3rev Software community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress beginner or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to the future development of WooCommerce Predictive Search or any of our other plugins on Github head over to the WooCommerce Predictive Search GitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute. Want to add a new language to WooCommerce Predictive Search! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org USAGE WP admin > WooCommerce menu > Predictive Search menu – Settings Open the + Search Results No-Cache and turn On the Results No-Cache option while you are setting up and testing Go to WordPress Appearance menu > Widgets Locate WooCommerce Predictive Search widget and drag it into the sidebar where you want it to show. Configure the search widget to show the desired results and meta on the frontend and click SAVE. Now that Predictive Search is live on your site go back to the Predictive Search menu and on the Widget Template style the search box and results dropdown to match your theme. Enjoy your outstanding quality site search