You want your WordPress site to offer the fastest, most accurate search experience. Swift search results keep your visitors happy and on your site longer. To help you improve search capabilities on your site, we’re launching WP Engine Search which is powered by Elasticsearch.

Starting today, WP Engine Search is a WP Engine Labs Alpha project. Just like WP Engine focuses on making WordPress great, Elasticsearch is built upon the open source Apache Lucene and focuses on making search great.

WP Engine Search provides you with a high availability, full text search engine. It’s wicked fast, and returns nearly real-time search results with high accuracy, sorted by relevance. WP Engine Search is available as part of the WP Engine platform. We do the heavy lifting for you, so you don’t need to contract with yet another vendor, and integrate it natively into your site, just to make search effective.

In addition to being faster and more accurate than standard WordPress search, WP Engine Search reduces the load on your database server by not performing a full-text scan on the database for every search operation. WordPress search, on the other hand, uses a simple MySQL query to find results and sorts search results by the age of the post.

Using WP Engine Search adds a host of other great search features as well, including:

  • More relevant search results
  • Autosuggest
  • Fuzzy matching (which catches misspellings and close queries)

Sign up now to let our team know you’re interested in the WP Engine Search Alpha project.

We’ve also launched the Alpha for WP Engine Related Posts. You can read more about it here.

For more information on Labs projects, click here.

 

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  • Mike on
    April 21, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    That’s super exciting! I saw a lot of ES stuff on 10up’s repo, so it’s really cool to see that you’ll be offering this with your services. If you’re accepting any feature requests, would you be open to support faceted search? I haven’t found anything spectacular, but I have high hopes for ES =)

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    • Stephen Lin on
      April 21, 2015 at 2:50 pm

      Hi Mike, we’re excited about this new feature as well! Faceted search is a great suggestion and definitely something worth looking into a little further down the road. We’ll get it on the list as a feature request.

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  • Manuel on
    April 21, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    Will cost extra $?

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    • Stephen Lin on
      April 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm

      Hi Manuel, this is currently an Alpha project under Labs. We will be working with customers who have expressed interest and we have approved under this current limited availability. Final pricing and availability for customers will be determined closer to general release.

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  • Ilona on
    April 24, 2015 at 10:31 am

    Very nice! Can’t wait to test the Elastic Search functionality soon!

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  • Glenn on
    February 24, 2016 at 11:12 am

    Any update on this?

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  • Gabriel Galvão on
    April 6, 2016 at 6:52 am

    Would love to know how is the processo about this. I have tryed to sign up to the beta, but I was too late.

    Please keep us update.
    Thanks.

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  • Chris Liu-Beers on
    May 19, 2016 at 8:17 am

    Would love to know where this project stands… Thanks!

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  • Augustin on
    August 18, 2016 at 1:29 am

    Awesome, i will test some of this plugin to improve the search on my costumers websites http://www.olshoppers.com

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  • Michael on
    October 13, 2016 at 5:29 am

    Any updates on the status of this?
    We are trying to avoid the high costs of swiftype or a solr solution.
    Thanks

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  • Rafael Schouchana on
    November 13, 2016 at 9:54 am

    Hi guys, any updates on this? Keen to use it.

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