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A single search on a busy WordPress site can turn up blog posts, pages, and products in one long list. When you filter search results by post type, visitors get to pick the kind of content they came for, right on the results page. Your site already tags every post, page, and product with its […]

Highlighting search terms in WordPress makes it easier for visitors to find exactly what they’re looking for on your site. Their search words stand out in every result, so they can spot the right page at a glance. That small change guides visitors to the content they want faster, which can lead to more page […]

Learn how to hide out of stock products from WooCommerce search, including live search, so shoppers only find items they can buy. No coding needed. Try it now.

WooCommerce gives you one built-in way to handle sold-out products on a classic shop page, and it’s all or nothing. The hide out of stock items from the catalog setting removes them for every shopper, including the ones who’d happily wait for a restock. A better option is to let shoppers decide for themselves. When […]

Learn how to customize the no results found page in WordPress so failed searches show spelling fixes, helpful links, and offers instead of a dead end.

Shoppers love a shortcut to the good stuff, and a WooCommerce star rating filter gives them one. With a single drag, they can skip past everything below 4 stars and browse only the products your customers already rave about. The good part is that your store already has what this filter needs. Each time you […]

Most advice for a slow WordPress search treats it like a slow website, which is why it rarely helps. The delay usually sits in the database query that runs every time a visitor presses search. By default, WordPress turns each search word into a pattern like %word% and checks it against the title, excerpt, and […]

Quotation marks only narrow a search when the search tool knows how to read them. A shopper who types “waterproof hiking boots” into your store’s search bar wants that one product, not every boot that shares a word with it. WordPress’s default search does keep straight-quoted words together, but it only checks post titles, excerpts, […]

Letting readers filter blog posts by author is one of the easiest ways to keep them reading on a multi-author blog. When someone finds a writer they like, they can see everything that person has written in one click, instead of digging through your archive. WordPress gives each writer an author archive, but it shows […]