WordPress search with Weaviate AI, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Apache Solr, or Apache Solr Cloud.
| Author: | WPSOLR (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 6.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.9.4 |
| Plugin version: | 24.4 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 28-04-2023 |
| Last updated: | 01-04-2026 |
| Rating, %: | 90 |
| Rated by: | 2 |
| Plugin URI: | https://www.wpsolr.com |
| Total downloads: | 7 891 |
| Active installs: | 40+ |
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WPSOLR replaces WordPress native search with fast, scalable AI and keyword search on your server.
Connect WordPress to modern search engines like Weaviate, Vespa.ai, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Apache Solr using Docker.
Features include instant search results, autocomplete suggestions, faceted navigation, and content recommendations—on the frontend and in the WordPress admin.
- No more slow MySQL LIKE queries
- Built for large content sites, WooCommerce stores, and communities
- Works with AI, vector, hybrid, and keyword search engines
See WPSOLR in action: search 700,000 WordPress posts in real time.
Core features
- Replaces WordPress search and archive queries (frontend & backend)
- Adds real-time search suggestions inside search bars
- Adds faceted search widgets (filters)
- Adds More-Like-This recommendation widgets on the frontend
Option 1 – Install your own search engine with Docker
Run your search stack on-premise using Docker:
- Docker search for PostgreSQL with Timescale extensions (keyword BM25 / hybrid / vector)
- Docker search for OpenSearch (keyword / hybrid / vector)
- Docker search for Weaviate (keyword / hybrid / vector)
- Docker search for Vespa.ai (keyword / hybrid / vector)
- Docker search for Elasticsearch (keywords)
- Docker search for Apache Solr (keywords)
Option 2 – Cloudways users
Use Cloudways’ pre-installed search Elasticsearch or OpenSearch services:
- Cloudways WordPress search for OpenSearch (keywords)
- Cloudways WordPress search for Elasticsearch (keywords)
Option 3 – Use the setup wizard (no Docker required)
If you cannot install Docker, our guided wizard configures WordPress search automatically using:
- A free trial Apache Solr index hosted by OpenSolr
- AJAX search with instant results
- Autocomplete and suggestions
- Facets (filters)
- Related content recommendations
Free vs Enterprise
Free version
- Replace WordPress search (frontend & backend)
- Keyword search with Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch
- AI / vector search with Weaviate and Vespa.ai
- Search suggestions & autocomplete
- Faceted search widgets
- More-Like-This recommendations
- Docker & Cloudways support
WPSOLR Enterprise
- Multi media file chunking, indexing, citations in suggestions with WPSOLR Parse, LlamaIndex, Unstructured
- WooCommerce advanced search (prices, stock, variations, orders, coupons)
- AI-powered vector & hybrid search at scale
- Multiple search engines at the same time
- AI personalization (Algolia AI, Google Retail)
- AI recommendations (Algolia Recommend, Amazon Personalize, Recombee)
- AI connectors for RAG & Chatbots (N8N, AWS S3/SQS, GCP CloudStorage/PubSub/DataFlow, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Ray)
- Advanced facets (range, sliders, hierarchy, color, date)
- ACF custom fields as facets
- Enterprise hosting providers & SLA support
Visit us to discover more features
Videos – WPSOLR Enterprise
Searching 180,000 Products in WooCommerce
Searching 200,000 Posts in a WordPress News Site
Searching 3 million topics in bbPress
Destination Site Search with Keyword Autocompletion and Infinite Load
Multilingual vector search with Weaviate and Cohere
10× faster suggestions with Elasticsearch
WooCommerce suggestions in 250 ms (100k products)
WooCommerce suggestions in 195 ms (873 products)
Image search in WordPress media with Weaviate
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