A drop-in search bar that shows live, ranked results as visitors type — across every post, page, custom post type, taxonomy, custom field, and ACF field. Typo-tolerant and fast enough to feel instant on sites with 50,000+ posts.
This search is live, right now, on this page. From docs to directories, it just works. Try it live below. Start typing and see the results show up.
Documentation · Searching across guides and API references
News & magazines · Articles, comments, and tags
Knowledge bases · Custom post types and help docs
Three steps to live search.
Five minutes from install to visitors actually finding what they came for.
01
Install and let it run.
One click and the plugin indexes your content in the background. No spreadsheets, no manual tagging, no waiting around.
02
Choose what visitors can find.
Pick the post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and ACF fields that matter. Set weights so the right results surface first.
03
Drop it anywhere.
Shortcode, or page-builder element. Replaces native WordPress search instantly — no theme edits, no developer needed.
Watch the setup (2:15 minutes)
Configure what gets searched.
Per post type, per field. Weight what matters most so titles outrank passing mentions in the body.
Post titles
Match in post and page titles
Post content
Search inside the body of every post
Excerpts
Hand-written summaries get indexed too
Custom post types
Docs, recipes, properties, anything
Categories & tags
Match across categories and tags
Custom fields
Any post meta field, indexed
ACPT, ACF, Meta Box
Works with most basic content fields
Comments
Optionally search discussions
Index once. Queries stay instant — even on sites with tens of thousands of posts.
Why people pick Elevated.
Fast results, typo tolerance, and zero setup. The details that turn search into a competitive advantage.
0.15-second live results
Ranked suggestions appear as visitors type. No spinner, no full page reload, no waiting.
Typo-tolerant, four levels
Plurals, partial words, and misspellings are matched automatically. You decide how forgiving it gets.
Keyboard shortcut
Visitors can open search with ⌘K or Ctrl-K, or set it up to use a forward slash. The shortcut they already know from every modern app.
"Did you mean?" + recents
Corrected queries, recent searches, and your site's most popular terms turn dead ends into clicks.
Scales to huge sites
Purpose-built index with BM25 ranking — not WP_Query. Tens of thousands of posts stay sub-second.
Every field, every post type
Posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, ACF, Meta Box, and post meta. Weight fields independently.
A closer look at what makes it click.
The details visitors notice without being able to name them, and the controls that let you shape every one.
⌘K SHORTCUT
RECENTS & POPULAR
Keyboard-first, with smart starting points.
⌘K and Ctrl-K open search without reaching for the mouse, and the empty state isn't empty — visitors land on their recent queries and your site's most popular terms, turning a blinking cursor into one-click answers.
Show or hide thumbnails and excerpts, tune colors for backgrounds, text, and highlights, dial in padding and spacing — all from the settings panel. Defaults look great out of the box, and the knobs are there when you want them.
Two built-in looks are selectable from the settings panel: light and dark. No CSS overrides, no theme conflicts. Pick the one that matches your brand and ship.
Writing "dock" still finds your Roast Duck recipes. Off, Soft, Normal, and Hard let you decide how forgiving matching gets. Plurals and partial words handled automatically.
First-class drag-and-drop elements for both builders. A shortcode covers Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, and any widget area. No theme edits, no template hooks, no developer required.
Queries hit a TNTSearch-powered purpose-built index instead of WP_Query, and a result cache makes repeat queries and pagination near-instant, even on sites with tens of thousands of posts. Indexing runs in background transactional batches so your editors never feel it.
Built by Soflyy. Shipping WordPress plugins for 15 years.
Makers of Breakdance, WP All Import, and Oxygen Builder. Partners on AnalyticsWP, WPCodeBox, WP Debug Toolkit, and other plugins trusted by WordPress site owners.
15 yrs
Shipping plugins
We've been building for WordPress since before responsive design was cool.
-24 hrs
Support replies
Helpful responses from real people who know the products inside out.
100k +
Active installs
Soflyy plugins run on over 100,000 sites, from solo shops to enterprise stores.
Pricing.
Same plugin. Different scale. 90-day money-back guarantee on every tier.
90-day money-back guarantee. No subscriptions on the All Access Pass.
Common questions.
Suggestions appear in around 0.15 seconds on average, even on sites with tens of thousands of posts. A built-in result cache keeps repeat queries and pagination near-instant.
Typo-tolerant by default, with four levels (Off / Soft / Normal / Hard) so you decide how forgiving matching is. Plurals, partial words, and prefix matches are handled automatically — type "woo" and you'll match "woocommerce".
By relevance, not date. The plugin uses BM25 scoring, weights matches by field (titles count more than body), and floats title matches above body-only matches. You can override the per-field weights.
Yes. Any public post type is searchable. You can also exclude certain categories and tags, or decide to only include some.
Yes. The plugin reads from ACF, Meta Box, and standard WordPress post meta. Pick exactly which fields to index from the settings UI.
Yes. The shortcut opens the search wherever you've placed it — site-wide if it lives in a global place, like in your header, or on the specific pages where you've added the shortcode. It's configurable and can be disabled.
A "Did you mean?" suggestion offers a corrected query, turning dead ends into clicks. You can also customise the empty-state and no-results messages.
No. Indexing runs in the background in transactional batches. Queries hit a custom full-text index (TNTSearch), not WP_Query. Front-end scripts only load on pages that actually use the search.
Works with any WordPress theme via the shortcode. Native page-builder elements are included for Breakdance and Oxygen. Elementor, Divi, and Gutenberg sites use the shortcode.
Same idea — a proper WordPress search engine — built for 2026. Faster live-results UI out of the box, simpler configuration, modern indexer, and lifetime updates available via the All Access Pass.
