Improve WordPress search
Make your search even more powerful
WP Engine Smart Search AI offers sites a natural-language search experience built to deliver more accurate and reliable results for end users—without metered pricing or a performance tax.
Powerful-yet-simple search
A better search for your users
Built to identify user intent even with misspellings or phrases, site users experience accurate results with Smart Search AI. In turn, this leads to higher conversion and keeps engaged users from bouncing off your site.
Unlike other search providers, Smart Search AI does not bog down your server and produces search results up to 10x faster than other options on the market. Users get to enjoy fast results with a GPT-like experience, without compromising site performance.
Other smart tools often require manual set-up or technical skills to ensure proper setup.
However, with WP Engine Smart Search AI, you can get going with 3 simple clicks. Our Installation will auto-index your data now and in the future with no technical ability required.
Built to identify user intent even with misspellings or phrases, site users experience accurate results with Smart Search AI. In turn, this leads to higher conversion and keeps engaged users from bouncing off your site.
Unlike other search providers, Smart Search AI does not bog down your server and produces search results up to 10x faster than other options on the market. Users get to enjoy fast results with a GPT-like experience, without compromising site performance.
Other smart tools often require manual set-up or technical skills to ensure proper setup.
However, with WP Engine Smart Search AI, you can get going with 3 simple clicks. Our Installation will auto-index your data now and in the future with no technical ability required.
Elevate your impact with Search Insights
Easily identify trending and ‘no-result’ searches on your site. Craft content that resonates with your highest-intent users, while seamlessly filling any gaps in your content strategy.
An Enhanced Search Experience
Powerful features and integrations
Typo-tolerant and intuitive
Guide users to what they’re looking for—even they misspell or type different versions of the search term.
Infinitely scalable search
WP Engine Smart Search AI offloads your search queries from your WordPress server, allowing for scalability without a performance tax.
Get going quickly with 3 step setup
A simple installation process that auto-syncs all your data after your first setup.
No hidden fees
Unlike other search tools currently in the market, our pricing is transparent, non-metered, and all-inclusive—making great results more accessible.
Thoughtful AI
Unlike other major AI models, WP Engine or our partners will not use your data to train our search models, so you can rest assured that your data is safe and belongs to you.
Out-of-the-box ACF compatibility
Get full ACF support for custom post types & taxonomies without re-syncing.
API flexibility with WPGraphQL and REST
Access all your data, no matter the source, with the tool of your choice.
Related posts and recommendations
Use WPGraphQL or our API to suggest relevant content to your visitors.
Composable index and search options
Index data for your search results from any source(s)—WordPress or not!
Setup Smart Search AI in minutes
Get set up and start seeing results quickly
- 1Install with just a few clicks
Setup WP Engine Smart Search AI from the Add-ons page in your user portal—just install a license on any environment and one-time sync your data to get started.
- 2Configure search results easily
Our intuitive UI allows for simple search customization to populate the most relevant content, giving you more control over the search experience.
- 3Optional: Fully extendable search
WP Engine Smart Search AI and our powerful API give you the ability extend your search capabilities and data, like populating related content on your website.
WP Engine Smart Search AI
FAQ
WP Engine Smart Search AI is for Premium-only customers, and the pricing will depend on your plan level—starting at just $140/month.
The best part? There’s no limit to the number of sites or searches—it’s all based on your existing WP Engine plan! Unlike other search solutions, you won’t get nickel-and-dimed for every little search request or index.
Yes! WP Engine Smart Search AI is designed to work seamlessly with any Atlas site and the Atlas headless WordPress platform as well as any of our Premium plans.
Setup on Atlas is just as easy as any other WordPress site, and it comes with built-in headless search support, including WP GraphQL and ACF.
WP Engine Smart Search AI is a powerful, easy-to-setup, ACF-compatible, and headless-ready search tool unlike anything else on the market.
Whether you need an “it just works” search solution to improve your site experience quickly or a highly-customizable offering go beyond just search results, WP Engine Smart Search AI is the perfect solution for your WordPress search needs—headless WordPress included!
Many other search solutions on the market aren’t headless-compatible, or if they are, require complex setups and custom code to get your search up-and-running. WP Engine Smart Search AI works with headless sites out-of-the-box!
It also works seamlessly with your favorite tools like ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), WPGraphQL, and more!
Absolutely! Whether you are using WP Engine Smart Search AI on a Premium or Atlas plan, you get the best-in-class, award-winning support experience you’ve come to know and love from WP Engine. And while we may not be able to help you with custom development work, we also have a community of headless developers and our Developer Relations team here to collaborate with you!
We’re glad you asked! WP Engine Smart Search AI comes with:
- Seamless integration with headless WordPress
- Fuzzy Search
- Stemmed Search
- Faceted Search
- Results Weighing
- WPGraphQL compatibility
- Full ACF compatibility (with zero custom code)
- Advanced operators (AND, OR, NOT, >, <)
- Exclusions (with WPGraphQL)
- Related & recommended posts
- Multi-field searches
- Index 3rd party data
- Public GraphQL API
WP Engine Smart Search AI documentation is found at developers.wpengine.com and includes step-by-step setup instructions, troubleshooting tips, API documentation, and more.