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native WordPress search experience with fast, modern AJAX results, a dedicated relevance index, and a polished admin workflow. Visitors get instant suggestions as they type; site owners get visibility into what people search for and what they cannot find.<\/p>\n\n Built for production sites, Rankology is suitable for blogs, business websites, membership portals, and WooCommerce stores that need accurate, configurable search without slowing down the front end.<\/p>\n\n Create unlimited Search Widgets<\/strong> \u2014 each an independent placement with its own post types, layout, theme, behavior, filters, and relevance-weight overrides.<\/p>\n\n Connect OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude to layer AI features on top of the core search engine \u2014 nothing here is required for the plugin to work:<\/p>\n\n Understand how search performs on your site:<\/p>\n\n A unified Rankology<\/strong> menu in wp-admin: Dashboard, Search Indexing, Appearance, Search Filter, SERP Builder, Result Tuning, Smart Search, Analytics & Logs, Integrations, Tools, and Settings \u2014 organized set up \u2192 tune \u2192 measure \u2192 maintain, for clarity on both small blogs and larger editorial teams. Search Widgets are managed from their own screen (Rankology \u2192 Search Widgets<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n TXT file extraction uses native PHP only.<\/p>\n\n This plugin stores search analytics, index data, and plugin settings in your WordPress database. It does not phone home to Rankology servers.<\/p>\n\n Search logs associated with a visitor are included automatically in WordPress core's built-in personal data export and erase tools (Tools \u2192 Export\/Erase Personal Data<\/strong>), so data-subject requests can be fulfilled without manual database work.<\/p>\n\n When the WP Consent API<\/a> is active, Rankology checks the visitor's \"statistics\" consent category before logging search queries, clicks, or engagement data. If a compatible consent plugin has not granted that category, tracking is skipped for that visitor.<\/p>\n\n When Google-style autocomplete<\/strong> is enabled in Rankology \u2192 Appearance \u2192 Autocomplete<\/strong>, the plugin may send partial search terms from your site to Google's public suggestion service at When Smart Search AI features are enabled and an API key is configured, the plugin may send request data to your selected provider (OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude) to generate summaries, query understanding, or related AI-assisted search output.<\/p>\n\n If you enable scheduled analytics email reports, message content is sent through your WordPress site's configured mail transport ( When voice search is used in supported browsers, speech recognition is handled by the visitor's browser. Rankology does not record or transmit audio to its own servers.<\/p>\n\n\n Yes. Rankology can include WooCommerce products in search results, display product prices where appropriate, and apply relevance weighting to SKU and product fields when WooCommerce is active.<\/p><\/dd>\n Rankology does not remove WordPress core search automatically. You place the Rankology search bar where you want it \u2014 via block, shortcode, or widget \u2014 and can customize the on-site search results template for a complete replacement experience.<\/p><\/dd>\n Create a Search Widget in Rankology \u2192 Search Widgets<\/strong>, copy its shortcode, and paste it into your header template, a block theme header pattern, or a hook-friendly location. You can also use the Rankology Search<\/strong> Gutenberg block in the site editor.<\/p><\/dd>\n A Search Widget is an independent search configuration. Each widget can target different post types, use a different layout or theme, enable its own filters, and override relevance weights \u2014 useful when a shop search and a blog search need different behavior.<\/p><\/dd>\n Rankology is built for performance. Search queries use a dedicated index and cached responses where appropriate, and the public endpoint includes rate limiting. Initial indexing runs in the background and can be managed from the admin or WP-CLI.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Enable search analytics and visit Rankology \u2192 Analytics & Logs<\/strong> for top queries, trending terms, zero-result searches, engagement (scroll\/mouse) tracking, and individual log entries. Data can be exported for reporting, and zero-result\/low-CTR alerts flag emerging gaps automatically.<\/p><\/dd>\n Redirect rules let you send specific search queries (exact or pattern-based) to a custom URL \u2014 for campaigns, synonyms, or steering users to the right landing page. Rules can be scoped by user role and language, and live under Rankology \u2192 Result Tuning \u2192 Redirects<\/strong>. With Smart Search enabled, semantic matching can also catch queries that don't match a rule's exact pattern.<\/p><\/dd>\n No \u2014 Smart Search is entirely optional. When enabled with an API key for OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude, it adds AI overviews, per-result summaries, typo-tolerant query understanding, intent-based ranking, semantic redirects, related-content suggestions, and click-based personalization on top of the core keyword\/BM25 search engine, which works fully on its own without it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Rankology exposes REST endpoints under Yes. Network-level settings synchronization is available for WordPress multisite installations, with optional per-subsite overrides when individual sites need different settings.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, if you want file content indexing beyond plain TXT files. Install Search experience<\/h4>\n\n
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Does Rankology work with WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does this replace the default WordPress search?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I add search to my theme header?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is a Search Widget?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will Rankology slow down my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I see what visitors search for?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What are query redirect rules?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What does Smart Search \/ AI do, and is it required?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is there a REST API?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
rankajlisrh\/v1<\/code> covering search, click tracking, redirects, merchandising, A\/B experiments, engagement tracking, personalization, voice parsing, and Smart Search summary streaming \u2014 suitable for headless WordPress and custom front ends.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes Rankology work on multisite?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I need extra libraries for PDF or DOCX indexing?<\/h3><\/dt>\n