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  • Search Sources
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    • Post, Page, Product and other Post Type Search
    • Searching Titles, Content, Excerpt
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    • Search in Attachments
      • Mime types table
    • Search in File contents (pdf, word, excel etc..)
    • Search in Users
      • User meta fields
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    • Peepso Groups & Group activities search
    • Grouping title duplicates
  • Behavior
    • Return/Enter key and Magnifier icon click actions
    • Search logic (primary and secondary)
      • Exact Matches vs Fuzzy Matches
      • Search logics explained
    • Live search triggering events
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  • Elementor Integration
    • Elementor Pro Posts Widget Live Filter
    • Elementor Loop Grid Integration
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    • Elementor custom search page archive override and live filter
  • Other Integration
    • Jet Engine Listing Grid Integration
  • Multisite Settings
  • Frontend Search Settings & Search Filters
    • Settings layout, position and visibility
    • Generic Selectors
    • Content Type filters
    • Date filters
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    • Search button
    • Reset button
  • Layout Settings
    • Result Layout Types
    • Results information box
    • Results position & snap
    • Content, author, date and description in results
    • More results loader and infinite scroll feature
    • Results behavior
    • Results text keyword highlighter
    • Compact search box layout
    • Auto Populate - Automatic search results on initial page load
  • Autocomplete and Keyword suggestions
    • Autocomplete
    • Results and Keyword suggestions
    • "Try these" - suggested phrases
  • Theme Options - Visual changes to the search bar
    • Theme chooser
    • Preview
    • Search box and input field layout
    • Settings and Magnifier icon
    • Settings dropdown
    • Typography
  • Index Table
    • Generating the index table
    • Enabling index table engine
    • File Content Search Addon
    • Index table FAQ
    • Synonyms
  • Relevance Options
  • Advanced Options and Uses
    • Using the Results shortcode as a custom results page
    • Shortcodes in results content
    • HTML tags in results
    • Primary and Secondary title and description fields
    • Advanced title and Content fields
      • User Search - Advanced Title and Content fields
    • Excluding & Including results
      • Exclude by category or terms
      • Exclude or Include by authors (users)
      • Exclude or Include by date
      • Exclude by Item or ID
      • Include by ID
      • Include by categories or terms (restrict to category)
      • Exclude or Include by custom field values
    • Grouping results
    • Keyword Exception & Exclusions
  • Result priority settings
    • Individual Priorities
    • Priorities by Rules (priority groups)
  • Performance Tuning
    • Fine tuning the search configuration
    • Cache
    • Visual performance
    • Ajax performance tracker
  • Compatibility Settings
    • Javascript Compatibility
  • Google Analytics Integration (GA4)
    • Tracking with Google Site Tag (gtag.js)
    • Tracking with Google Tag Manager
    • Site Search Tracking
  • Troubleshooting
    • Styling issues
    • The response data is missing from the ajax request error message
  • Translating components
    • Translating with WPML
    • Translating with Polylang
  • Pre-Purchase FAQ
  • Plugin API
    • Actions list and usage
    • Filters list and usage
    • asp_query_args filter
    • Theme functions
    • Front-end filters API
    • Javascript API
  • Other Useful Things
    • Additional search keywords for post types
    • Negative keywords
    • Meta box on post editor screen
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  • If you had Ajax Search Lite installed
  • Installing Ajax Search Pro via the Plugin Manager
  • Installing via FTP (not recommended)
  • Multisite installation

Installation instructions

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If you are an experienced user, you may jump to the next chapter.

There is an on the wordpres.org website on plugin installations. You can read that if you prefer a more detailed guide.

If you had Ajax Search Lite installed

The Pro version is a separate plugin from Ajax Search Lite, so you can go back to the lite version any time you want to. Before or after installing the Pro version, please make sure to deactivate the lite version.

Installing Ajax Search Pro via the Plugin Manager

In WordPress the easies way of adding a new plugin is by the built-in plugin manager. Follow these steps to succesfully install this plugin.

Downloading the plugin for Direct Purchases

Downloading the plugin for purchases via Envato Market (codecanyon.net)

If you purchased the plugin on codecanyon.net, follow the instructions below.

1. Save the zip plugin file somewhere on your computer.

2. Log in to your WordPress back end area, it's usually on the yourdomain.com/wp-admin url

3. After logging in click on the Plugins menu and hit the Add New button

4. Now, click on the Upload Plugin button

5. Click on the Choose file button and select the ajax-search-pro.zip file. Then click the Install now button

After successful installation, you will need to activate the plugin. You can do that on the installation page, or go back to the plugins page and activate it there. After installing and activating, you should see the new plugin menu.

Using this method is highly recommended, it should work on 99% of all servers. If by any reason this method is not working, or it's not possible, then there is another way of installing a WordPress plugin

Installing via FTP (not recommended)

If the above method is not working, you can use FTP to upload the plugin files. This method is not recommended for beginners, so please be careful.

  1. After connecting to your server via ftp, you should search for your site's wordpress directory. It's usually located in a path like public_html/wp-content/plugins/ or www/wp-content/plugins/

  2. Unzip the ajax-search-pro.zip file and copy the ajax-search-pro folder to the servers plugin directory

  3. After succesfully copying the ajax-search-pro directory you will still need to activate the plugin. Log in to your sites back end.

That's it! After activation you should use be able to use the plugin.

Multisite installation

Make sure to install the plugin on the Network admin aka. the main site, because the plugin needs to be Network activated in order to work. The installation is the same as the previous method, just make sure that it is activated on the network admin (main) site.

If you purchased the plugin directly from ajaxsearchpro.com, then use the log-in details that were sent to you to access the product via . If you forgot your password or deleted the email by accident, don't worry, just use the with the email you provided during purchase. After logging in, click to the menu to access the download.

Download the ajax-search-pro.zip file on the dashboard (the Downloads menu). Make sure to download the Installable WordPress file only, as the other archive also contains documentation links and other files.

If you don't know how to connect to your website via ftp, I recommend reading the .

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