A shopper types the plural. Your catalog is written in the singular. The search returns nothing, and the sale is gone.

On a French-language store this is the single most common way a WooCommerce search comes back empty – “chaussures” failing to find “Chaussure”, “chevaux” failing to find “Cheval”. Glance Live Search treats them as the same word, irregular plurals included.

The rest is what you would expect from a live search, built carefully. Results appear as fast as someone can type, matched on name, SKU or category, with no page reload. A search that finds nothing offers the closest term instead of a dead end. Colors, corners and height follow your brand. And the whole thing adds under 36 KB to your storefront.

Why Glance Live Search?

Understands plurals – singular and plural are one word on a French store, irregular ones included, and words that only look plural are left alone: prix stays prix, souris stays souris
Instant results – matching products appear as fast as your customers can type
Finds everything – searches product titles, SKUs, descriptions, excerpts and categories
Beautiful by default – design presets + full Custom mode to match any brand
Stays fast under load – recent searches are remembered, so a term someone has just typed is answered immediately
Made for phones – the search takes over the screen, and never hides behind a notch
Search history – recent searches saved locally and displayed on focus
Usable by everyone – works entirely from the keyboard, and screen readers announce the results properly
Built to be adapted – 31 documented extension points, listed at the end of this page
See what shoppers look for – the terms they search, the ones that find nothing, and the ones that lead to a click
Fits your theme – drops into any theme through the shortcode, widget or block, with dedicated adjustments for Shoptimizer, Astra and Kadence

Free Features

Instant live search by product name and SKU
Plurals understood on French-language stores, including irregular ones
Optional search index for large catalogs, built in one click and reversible
Search in product descriptions and short descriptions (optional)
Up to 100 results per search, with a “View all results” link
Search history displayed on focus (configurable, 1–20 items)
Recent searches are reused, so repeating one is instant
Full-screen mobile overlay with configurable breakpoint
2 design presets: Sharp and Clean
Configurable search delay, minimum characters, and placeholder text
Search button (icon or text) – inside or outside the bar
Text button switches to icon automatically on mobile
Analytics dashboard – top keywords over 7 days
Shortcode [glance_search], WordPress widget, Gutenberg block, Elementor widget
Works with block themes and the site editor
Results update on their own when you add, edit or remove a product
Dedicated adjustments for Shoptimizer, Astra and Kadence; works with any other theme through the shortcode, widget or block

Pro Features

Spelling correction – a search that finds nothing offers the closest matching term instead of a dead end
Price ranges – three brackets worked out from your own catalog, offered under the bar
In-stock only – hide out-of-stock products from live search
4 design presets – Sharp, Clean, Pill, and fully Custom
Full color customization – bar, border, text, placeholder, button
Category filter in the search bar
Variation search – find products by attribute values (color, size, etc.)
Show SKU, rating, and category count in results
Categories in search results
Upsell recommendations below search results
Click tracking – see which results shoppers actually open
Advanced analytics – 7, 14, 30 and 90-day views, success rate for each search term, and CSV export
Priority support

Learn more

Pricing, screenshots and documentation: www.glancelivesearch.com

For Developers

Glance exposes 31 extension points. They follow one naming rule — area then thing, separated by slashes —
for filters and actions alike. The four names without a slash are kept for
backward compatibility only and will be removed in a future release.

The search itself

glse/search/phrase — the term, before anything is done with it. ( string $term )
glse/search/min_chars — how many characters before a search fires. ( int $min, string $term )
glse/search/filters — category, stock and price filters. ( array $filters, string $term )
glse/search/query_args — the SQL pieces, just before they are assembled: join, where, params, order. ( array $args, string $term, array $filters, int $limit )
glse/search/results — the formatted results. ( array $results, string $term )
glse/results/product_data — one product row. ( array $data, WC_Product $product, string $term )
glse/search/categories — matching categories. ( array $categories, string $term )
glse/search/after — action, fired once a search is done. ( string $term, array $results, int $ms, string $category )

Language

glse/search/french_morphology — whether French plural rules apply. Decided from the site language. ( bool $applies, string $locale )
glse/search/word_variants — the forms a word is looked up under. The typed word always comes first. ( array $forms, string $word )

Index and performance

glse/search/use_fulltext — whether the fast index drives this search. A guard on short words may still turn it off afterwards. ( bool $use, string $term )
glse/search/hidden_visibility_slugs — product_visibility terms excluded from results. ( array $slugs )
glse/search/price_brackets — the price chips under the bar. ( array $brackets )
glse/rate_limit/client_ip — the address requests are counted against. Change it behind a proxy. ( string $ip )

Output

glse/template/search_form — path of the form template. ( string $path, array $atts )
glse/template/search_results — path of the results template. ( string $path, array $vars )
glse/form/html — the rendered bar. ( string $html, array $atts )
glse/form/placeholder — the placeholder text. ( string $placeholder )
glse/results/output — the whole AJAX response before it is sent. ( array $response, string $term, array $results )
glse/results/no_results_html — what shows when nothing matches. ( string $html, string $term, string $url )
glse/results/extras_budget — how many rows categories and recommendations may share. Default 6. ( int $rows )
glse/search/view_all_url — the “see all results” address. ( string $url, string $term, string $category )
glse/scripts/localize — the data handed to the front-end script. ( array $data )
glse_force_load_assets — load the assets on a page where the bar is not detected. ( bool $force )
glse_fs_loaded — action, fired once the licensing SDK is ready. No arguments.

Dictionary (Pro)

glse/suggestions/taxonomies — taxonomies feeding the spelling dictionary. ( array $taxonomies )
glse/suggestions/stopwords — words the dictionary ignores. ( array $stopwords )

Deprecated

Still fired, no longer documented as stable. Use the slashed name instead.

glse_search_filters glse/search/filters
glse_modify_results glse/search/results
glse_modify_categories_results glse/search/categories
glse_after_search glse/search/after

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