Ajax Search Pro Documentation
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    • Automatic Updates
      • Activation on Development and Staging environments
      • Managing purchase codes
      • Purchase Code (license key)
    • Manual Updates
    • Safe Update Guide
    • Plugin update issues or errors
    • Disabling update check
  • Installation instructions
    • Uninstallation & Reset
  • Getting started
    • Importing from the Lite version
    • Editor Blocks
    • Search Shortcodes
    • Search Widget
    • Gutenberg and Other Page Editors
    • Replacing the default theme search bar
    • Placing the search shortcode in theme files
    • Search as menu item
    • Custom result box position
    • Custom filters box position
    • Shortcode generator
  • Search Sources
    • Search Engine
    • Post, Page, Product and other Post Type Search
    • Searching Titles, Content, Excerpt
    • Search in custom fields
      • Search By Product SKU
    • Search by categories, tags or other terms
    • Search in Attachments
      • Mime types table
    • Search in File contents (pdf, word, excel etc..)
    • Search in Users
      • User meta fields
    • Limits (number of results)
    • Categories and terms as results
    • Image options
    • Result ordering
    • 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
    • Results page override
    • Results, Archive Page and Shop Live Search and Filter
  • Elementor Integration
    • Elementor Pro Posts Widget Live Filter
    • Elementor Loop Grid Integration
    • Elementor Pro Product Widget Live Filter
    • Custom results page with Elementor Pro
    • 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
    • Category and Taxponomy term filters
    • Post type Filters
    • Custom field filters - selectors
    • 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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  • Generic Questions
  • Is the plugin compatible with any theme?
  • Can I have more than 1 search box on my page?
  • Can I search for custom post types?
  • Can I search post media attachments?
  • Can I search attachment file contents as well?
  • Can I search files in a directory, that are not registered as media attachments?
  • Can I also use it as a simple search engine without ajax?
  • Can I display the same search results on the default WordPress search page as on the ajax search pro?
  • Will it work with any language? (chineese, russian, greek etc..)
  • Is the plugin compatible with multi language plugins like WPML?
  • Are there any recurrence fees?
  • Will you help me if I have problems?
  • Questions about functionality
  • Does it support searching for post categories and post tags?
  • Does it support searching for product categories and tags or other taxonomy terms?
  • Can I look for posts, pages or products based on tags or categories?
  • Can I search executed shortcode content?
  • Can I display the ajax search results on the default search page?
  • Layout and Theme related
  • WooCommerce related
  • Is the plugin compatible with WooCommerce?
  • Will the search display WooCommerce product images?

Pre-Purchase FAQ

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Last updated 7 years ago

Here you can find the most frequently asked questions about Ajax Search Pro.

Use the search bar on the top left corner of the screen or your browser search (press F3) too look for a question.

Generic Questions

Is the plugin compatible with any theme?

Yes, the search is template independent.

Can I have more than 1 search box on my page?

Yes, you can create as many different boxes as you want.

Can I search for custom post types?

Yes you can, see the Search in custom post types section

Can I search post media attachments?

Yes, it is possible.

Can I search attachment file contents as well?

Yes, indexing and searching Text, PDF, RTF, CSV, Office docx, Excel and Powerpoint file contents is possible. More information in section.

Can I search files in a directory, that are not registered as media attachments?

No, unfortunately that is not possible.

Can I also use it as a simple search engine without ajax?

Yes you can. The plugin is also a fully funtional simple search engine.

Can I display the same search results on the default WordPress search page as on the ajax search pro?

Will it work with any language? (chineese, russian, greek etc..)

Yes, the plugin is language independent.

Is the plugin compatible with multi language plugins like WPML?

Yes, it is fully compatible with WPML, Polylang and QTranslateX plugins.

Are there any recurrence fees?

Will you help me if I have problems?

Questions about functionality

Does it support searching for post categories and post tags?

Yes the plugin supports searching for post categories and tags.

Does it support searching for product categories and tags or other taxonomy terms?

Yes, you can select which taxonomy terms you would like to search for.

Can I look for posts, pages or products based on tags or categories?

Yes, the plugin supports that. It can look through every taxonomy term related to any post type - post tags, post categories, product tags, product categories, forum tags etc...

Can I search executed shortcode content?

Can I display the ajax search results on the default search page?

Yes, if you search through the Ajax Search Pro input box and the override is activated, the same results will appear on the default results page.

Layout and Theme related

WooCommerce related

Is the plugin compatible with WooCommerce?

Yes, it is compatible with WooCommerce.

Will the search display WooCommerce product images?

Yes, it will.

Yes, it is possible. More information in section.

Once you buy the product, it’s yours for life with free updates, documentation and 6 months of support (re-newable, see envato’s for more information).

Yes, of course, the plugin is supported. If you haven’t found resolution in this documentation or in the , you can open a support ticket and I will assist you with the problem.

As of plugin version 4.5, yes you can. It requires to generate an to index every shortcode content.

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