VISeek – Easy Custom Search

WordPress’ default search is good – but maybe enough for you. If you’re looking for an easy custom WordPress search solution, you’ll need something else. Let’s see what’s missing and what you can achieve with VISeek.

WordPress search system is limited, hard to customize, and doesn’t give you insights into what people are actually looking for. Out of the box, it only looks through post titles and content, ignoring custom fields, taxonomies, or product details. Results are often sorted by date instead of relevance, so the most useful content doesn’t always appear first. It also doesn’t handle typos, synonyms, or stop words well, which can lead to empty or inaccurate results. There are no built-in filters for categories, tags, or post types, and users have to reload a whole new page for every query since there’s no instant or live search. On top of that, WordPress doesn’t provide analytics on what people are searching for, making it hard to optimize content. These gaps are even more obvious on WooCommerce stores, where product-specific needs like categories, tags, and attributes aren’t supported by default.

VISeek – Easy Custom Search changes that by giving you full control over your site’s search experience.

Features at a glance:

• Add unlimited search templates, as many as you need
• Choose from 2 styles with full customization options
• Replace the default WordPress search bar with VISeek forms
• Enable AJAX-powered live search for instant results
• Set minimum characters before search triggers
• Decide whether to override the default results page
• Filter out irrelevant terms with stopwords
• Track user searches with detailed search logs
• Analyze trends with built-in search reports
• Add plugin processes (stopword filtering, user logs) to the main WP query for consistent results

What VISeek does to optimize your easy custom WordPress search system:

• Create multiple search templates as your store needs
• Styles the search UI to match your site and control how queries behave.
  • Choose between 2 different layouts with unique styles
  • Toggle the search button on or off
  • Add filters by category or tag, and customize the filter titles
  • Show or hide popular search terms, and edit the label for this section
  • Customize colors (background, cover, text, etc.) to fit your theme
  • Control search results display: set “no result” text, “view all results” text, and adjust background, text, and highlight colors
  • Preview the search form directly in the editor
• Deliver instant results with AJAX-powered live search, no page reloads
• Use stopwords and smarter query handling for more accurate, relevant results
  • Add as many stopwords as needed with a clear, visible stopword list
  • Track and display the most common search terms in the log, with counts shown for each
• Records Search logs and Reports show exactly what people look for or most popular search keyword.
• Apply VISeek’s improvements directly to WordPress’ main search query – Stopword or user log.
• If you’re a WooCommerce user, searching for products feels natural – Filter results by WooCommerce product categories, tags fields.

With VISeek, you can transform WordPress default, plain search into a tool that’s fast, flexible, and insightful – an easy custom WordPress search that works the way you and your visitors expect.