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Snappy Search
Snappy Search

Snappy Search

5/5 (1 ratings) — active installs Updated Apr 9, 2026
Demo

Demo

Snappy Search is a powerful and lightweight AJAX search plugin that enhances your site’s search functionality with lightning fast results. Powered by TNTSearch, it indexes your WordPress posts for near instant, accurate, and efficient searching. Say goodbye to slow searches, this plugin ensures a seamless user experience with improved relevancy. Perfect for blogs, news sites, and content heavy websites. For even faster search performance, install our Snappy Search Standalone API.

Demo

Currently Supports

  • Searching WooCommerce products
  • Searching Easy Digital Downloads downloads
  • Searching WordPress posts
  • Searching WordPress pages
  • Searching through WooCommerce orders

Features

  • Search through various post types fast without requiring multiple page loads
  • Popular search terms can be displayed below the search
  • Define synonyms when there are multiple search terms that could be used
  • Option to filter WooCommerce products by rating, price, or custom fields.
  • Set how many characters to trigger the AJAX search
  • Set a typing delay before an AJAX request is made
  • Tab selection between various indexes if more than one is enabled
  • Adds a dropdown by defined selector to search form to show results
  • Can build indexes for products, downloads, posts, pages, orders
  • Background sync for indexes
  • Index updater that handles when data is added, updated, removed, set to draft, or visibility hidden.
  • Ability to adjust the batch size for the initial index so smaller servers don’t get overloaded
  • Limit the number of results displayed
  • Advanced search to replace the default WordPress search
  • Add your own custom shortcode template by copying snappy-search-form.php to your theme folder
  • Reindexer button
  • Adds categories, product categories, tags, product tags, and custom fields (if used) to the index to help with more accurate results
  • Shortcode [snappy_search_polyplugins placeholder=”Search…”] to inject a Snappy Search form anywhere
  • Shortcode [snappy_search_mobile_polyplugins] to inject a mobile Snappy Search form anywhere
  • Shortcode [snappy_search_advanced_polyplugins] to inject an advanced Snappy Search form anywhere
  • /wp-json/snappy-search/v1/products endpoint to get array of product ids (Requires WooCommerce)
  • /wp-json/snappy-search/v1/downloads endpoint to get array of download ids (Requires EDD)
  • /wp-json/snappy-search/v1/posts endpoint to get array of post ids
  • /wp-json/snappy-search/v1/pages endpoint to get array of page ids

Road Map

  • Add analytics for 0 search items and other things
  • Add scroll to load more results
  • Add another shortcode for replacing advanced search

Contributors

You can submit a PR via our Github Repository

GDPR

We are not lawyers and always recommend doing your own compliance research into third party plugins, libraries, ect, as we’ve seen other plugins not be in compliance with these regulations.

This plugin uses the Bootstrap, BootStrap Icons, and SweetAlert2 3rd party libraries. These libraries are loaded locally to be compliant with data protection regulations. This plugin also uses TNTSearch.

This plugin collects and stores certain data on your server to ensure proper functionality. This includes:

  • Storing plugin settings
  • Remembering which notices have been dismissed
  • Storing search terms made by users when enabled