Advanced Woo Search – Product Search for WooCommerce

Advanced Woo Search is a plugin for self-hosted WordPress sites, or wordpress.com hosted sites that allow installation of third party plugins.
Plugin requires the following at minimum to work properly:

• WordPress 4.0 or greater
• WooCommerce 3.0.0 or greater
• PHP 5.5 or greater
• MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0 or greater
• Apache or Nginx server (recommended, but other options may work as well)

There are several ways you can add plugins search form on your site. The simplest way – is by turning on the Seamless integration option from the plugins settings page.

You can also use build-in widget to place plugins search form to your sidebar or any other available widget area.

Or just use shortcode for displaying form inside your post/page:

[aws_search_form] 

Or insert this function inside php file ( often it used to insert form inside page templates files ):

echo do_shortcode( '[aws_search_form]' ); 

Also please read the guide article about search form placement: Adding Search Form.

Yes. The simplest way of doing this is by using Seamless Integration option. Just go to the plugin settings page -> General page and turn on Seamless Integration option. Now all your current default search bars must be replaced with plugin ones. This is working for almost all WordPress themes.

In order to start using the plugin search form you need to take following steps:

• Installation. Install and activate the plugin. You can follow these steps if you face any problems.
• Index plugin table. Click on the Reindex table button inside the plugin settings page and wait till the index process is finished.
• Set plugin settings. Leave it to default values or customize some of them.
• Add search form. There are several ways you can add a search form to your site. Use the Seamless integration option, shortcode, widget or custom php function. Read more in the guide article: Adding Search Form.
• Finish! Now all is set and you can check your search form on the pages where you add it.

In order to work, the plugin first requires to index all your WooCommerce products data. All content words are normalized and stored inside a plugin index table. For now all plugin search queries will be performed through this index table.

This is a one-time action. After first indexation all other product changes will be synchronized automatically.
Indexing helps to speed-up search and to bring more accurate search results.

Read more about indexing in the guide article: Indexing.

Plugin search will works with most of the available WordPress themes. If you faced any problems using the plugin with your theme please contact support.

Advanced Woo Search works with many plugins out-of-the-box. For some of the most popular plugins we manually check proper work of integration features. It is the plugins like Advanced Custom Fields, WPML, Polylang, Elementor, Divi Builder, BeRocket AJAX Product Filters, FacetWP and many more.

Please read some guide integrations articles: Integrations.

Note that if some of the plugin is not presented in the list it doesn’t mean that it will not work with Advanced Woo Search. Many plugins will just work without any extra effort. But if you find any problem with your plugin and Advanced Woo Search please contact support team.

Advanced Woo Search plugin itself doesn’t create any special search results page, instead it is using your current theme search results page to inherit its results. So the plugin search results page will look the same as your default search results page.

How to customize search results pages depending on your current theme and plugin. If you are using page builders like Elementor, Gutenberg, Divi Builder, Breakdance Builder, Bricks Builder and many more – you can simply customize WooCommerce products search results page via them. In other cases it all depends on your current theme and what options for search page customizations it has.

Yep. This plugin is always compatible with the latest version of Woocommerce?

Please ask your question via the support forum or plugin contact page.

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