Title: Rankology Ajax Live Search
Author: Rankology
Published: <strong>7 julho, 2026</strong>
Last modified: 3 agosto, 2026

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# Rankology Ajax Live Search

 Por [Rankology](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rankology/)

[Baixar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rankology-ajax-live-search.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Detalhes](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-ajax-live-search/#description)
 * [Avaliações](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-ajax-live-search/#reviews)
 *  [Instalação](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-ajax-live-search/#installation)
 * [Desenvolvimento](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-ajax-live-search/#developers)

 [Suporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rankology-ajax-live-search/)

## Descrição

Rankology Ajax Live Search upgrades the 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.

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.

#### Search experience

 * **Live AJAX search** — Results update as visitors type, with configurable debounce
   and keyboard-friendly navigation.
 * **Autocomplete suggestions** — Surface popular, recent, and Google-style query
   suggestions before a full search runs.
 * **Multiple result layouts** — Vertical dropdown, horizontal grid, polaroid tiles,
   and isotopic masonry.
 * **Visual polish** — Thumbnails, keyword highlighting, smart excerpts, and 8 built-
   in color themes (Classic, Dark Pro, E-commerce, Glass, Magazine, Material Design,
   Minimal, Neon).
 * **Single-result redirect** — Optionally send visitors straight to the destination
   when only one match is found.
 * **Modal and voice search** — Open search in a modal overlay and accept voice 
   input where supported by the browser.
 * **Add to cart from results** — Add WooCommerce products straight from the live
   results dropdown, no page reload required.
 * **Trending / popular searches widget** — Surface trending queries on the frontend
   as a standalone block, shortcode, or classic widget.
 * **Live filtering on archive pages** — Apply the same AJAX filters directly on
   taxonomy and post-type archive pages, not just the search results view.
 * **Responsive UI** — Mobile-friendly search instances and result panels.

#### Relevance and performance

 * **Custom search index** — Dedicated indexing engine with BM25-style relevance
   scoring and configurable field weights.
 * **Configurable content scope** — Include posts, pages, products, custom post 
   types, taxonomies, and custom fields.
 * **File indexing** — Optional extraction of text from attached PDF, DOCX, and 
   TXT files.
 * **WooCommerce ready** — Search products, show prices, add to cart from results,
   and weight SKU and catalog fields.
 * **Caching and rate limiting** — Protect the public search endpoint from abuse
   while keeping responses fast.

#### Filters and discovery

 * **Live filters** — Taxonomy, price range, and custom field filters with AJAX 
   updates, usable in search results and on archive pages.
 * **Filter builder** — Configure filter panels from the admin without writing code.
 * **SERP templates** — Customize the on-site search results page experience, including
   archive fields, SEO fields, and template layout.
 * **Result Tuning** — a dedicated workspace covering:
    - **Redirects** — send specific queries to a chosen URL by pattern, role, or
      language.
    - **Merchandising** — pin, promote, or hide specific results, with optional 
      scheduled campaign windows (e.g. Black Friday) that activate and expire automatically.
    - **A/B Experiments** — test ranking or layout variations and compare performance.
    - **Synonyms** — map alternate terms to the same results.
    - **Stop Words** — exclude noise words from matching.

#### Search widgets

Create unlimited **Search Widgets** — each an independent placement with its own
post types, layout, theme, behavior, filters, and relevance-weight overrides.

 * Gutenberg block (`rankajlisrh/search`)
 * Shortcode: `[rankajlisrh]`
 * Standalone filter panel shortcode: `[rankajlisrh_filters]`
 * Trending searches shortcode: `[rankajlisrh_trending_searches]`
 * Classic widget
 * Per-widget shortcodes for precise placement in headers, sidebars, and landing
   pages

#### Smart Search (AI-assisted, optional)

Connect OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude to layer AI features on top of
the core search engine — nothing here is required for the plugin to work:

 * **AI Overviews** — a generated summary paragraph above the result list.
 * **Per-result AI summaries** — short AI-written summaries for individual hits.
 * **Smart query understanding** — typo correction and natural-language constraint
   parsing (e.g. “red shoes under $50”).
 * **Intent ranking** — reorders results based on detected query intent.
 * **Semantic redirects** — AI-assisted fallback matching for redirect rules when
   no exact pattern matches.
 * **Related content & “People also search for”** — AI-surfaced related content 
   carousel and related-query suggestions.
 * **Personalization & click learning** — results adapt per-session based on prior
   clicks, without user accounts or persistent profiles.
 * **Phrase autocomplete** — AI-assisted phrase-level suggestions.
 * **Usage & cost dashboard** — track token usage and estimated cost per provider.
 * **Encrypted API keys** — provider keys are encrypted at rest, never stored as
   plaintext.

#### Analytics and optimization

Understand how search performs on your site:

 * **Overview dashboard** — Top queries, trending terms, and zero-result searches.
 * **Search logs** — Detailed query history with results count, click tracking, 
   device, and locale.
 * **Per-search detail view** — Drill into an individual search: query, filters 
   applied, results returned, and clicks.
 * **Engagement tracking** — Anonymous scroll-depth funnel and mouse heat-zone data
   for the search results area.
 * **Zero-result and low-CTR alerts** — Scheduled checks that flag queries returning
   nothing or rarely getting clicked, so content or indexing gaps get noticed automatically.
 * **Query redirect rules** — Send specific searches to a chosen URL by pattern,
   role, or language.
 * **Exports** — Download analytics as CSV or a printable PDF report.
 * **Scheduled email reports** — Optional periodic analytics summaries sent via 
   WordPress `wp_mail()`.

#### Developer tools

 * **REST API** — Headless and custom integrations under the `rankajlisrh/v1` namespace:
   search, click tracking, redirects, merchandising, A/B experiments, engagement
   tracking, personalization, voice parsing, and streaming AI summaries.
 * **WP-CLI commands** — `wp rankajlisrh index rebuild|status|reindex`, `cache flush`,`
   benchmark`, and `embed` (generate Smart Search embeddings) from the command line.
 * **Extensible hooks** — Customize search criteria and response payloads via WordPress
   filters.
 * **Multisite aware** — Network-level settings synchronization, with optional per-
   subsite overrides for individual sites in a WordPress multisite install.
 * **Privacy tools integration** — Search logs are included in WordPress core’s 
   personal data export and erase tools, and analytics tracking respects the WP 
   Consent API “statistics” category when active.
 * **Compatibility layer** — Automatic detection of, and remediation adapters for,
   common caching plugins (so cached pages don’t serve stale search results) and
   page builders (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Bricks).
 * **Migration tools** — One-click import from Ajax Search Pro and SearchWP, plus
   Rankology’s own JSON settings export/import for backups and staging-to-production
   moves.

#### Admin

A unified **Rankology** menu in wp-admin: Dashboard, Search Indexing, Appearance,
Search Filter, SERP Builder, Result Tuning, Smart Search, Analytics & Logs, Integrations,
Tools, and Settings — organized set up  tune  measure  maintain, for clarity on 
both small blogs and larger editorial teams. Search Widgets are managed from their
own screen (**Rankology  Search Widgets**).

### Credits

#### Bundled libraries

 * [Composer ClassLoader](https://github.com/composer/composer) — MIT License. Copyright(
   c) Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano. Used for PSR-4 autoloading in `vendor/composer/`.

#### WordPress core dependencies (not bundled)

 * jQuery — Admin and frontend UI interactions.
 * WordPress packages (`wp-element`, `wp-components`, `wp-i18n`) — Admin dashboard
   hub UI.

#### Optional Composer libraries (not bundled)

 * [smalot/pdfparser](https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser) — LGPL-3.0. Optional.
   PDF attachment text extraction.
 * [phpoffice/phpword](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord) — LGPL-3.0. Optional.
   DOCX attachment text extraction.

TXT file extraction uses native PHP only.

#### Compatible plugins (not bundled)

 * WooCommerce — Product search, prices, SKU weighting, and variation indexing.
 * WPML — Per-language indexing and search filtering.
 * Polylang — Per-language indexing and search filtering.
 * Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) — Custom field indexing and filter UI.
 * WP Mail Logging — View scheduled analytics email content from the admin.

### Privacy Policy

This plugin stores search analytics, index data, and plugin settings in your WordPress
database. It does not phone home to Rankology servers.

#### Personal data export and erasure

Search logs associated with a visitor are included automatically in WordPress core’s
built-in personal data export and erase tools (**Tools  Export/Erase Personal Data**),
so data-subject requests can be fulfilled without manual database work.

#### Consent Awareness

When the [WP Consent API](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-consent-api/) 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.

#### Google Suggest API

When **Google-style autocomplete** is enabled in **Rankology  Appearance  Autocomplete**,
the plugin may send partial search terms from your site to Google’s public suggestion
service at `https://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search`.

 * **What is sent:** The current partial search query and optional language or region
   parameters.
 * **When it is sent:** Only while autocomplete is enabled and local suggestion 
   sources do not already fill the suggestion list.
 * **Why it is sent:** To retrieve Google-style query suggestions for visitors.
 * **Caching:** Responses are cached locally with WordPress transients to reduce
   repeat requests.
 * **Third-party policy:** Review [Google’s Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy)
   for how Google handles data sent to its services.

#### AI provider integrations (optional)

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.

 * **What may be sent:** Search query text and limited content context required 
   to generate a response (for example, titles and excerpts for summary generation).
 * **When it is sent:** Only when AI features are enabled and a remote provider 
   is selected in plugin settings.
 * **Why it is sent:** To return AI-generated search enhancements configured by 
   the site owner.
 * **Caching:** AI responses may be cached locally (WordPress transients) when response
   caching is enabled.
 * **Third-party policies:** [OpenAI Privacy Policy](https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy),
   [Google Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy), [Anthropic Privacy Policy](https://www.anthropic.com/privacy).

#### Email reports

If you enable scheduled analytics email reports, message content is sent through
your WordPress site’s configured mail transport (`wp_mail()`). Rankology does not
provide or operate that mail service.

#### Voice search

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.

## Capturas de tela

[⌊Dashboard — index status, quick actions, and an at-a-glance overview.⌉⌊Dashboard—
index status, quick actions, and an at-a-glance overview.⌉[

Dashboard — index status, quick actions, and an at-a-glance overview.

[⌊Search Widgets — manage independent search placements with their own layout, theme,
and relevance overrides.⌉⌊Search Widgets — manage independent search placements 
with their own layout, theme, and relevance overrides.⌉[

Search Widgets — manage independent search placements with their own layout, theme,
and relevance overrides.

[⌊Appearance — Design & Layout tab, covering result layout, color themes, and visual
options.⌉⌊Appearance — Design & Layout tab, covering result layout, color themes,
and visual options.⌉[

Appearance — Design & Layout tab, covering result layout, color themes, and visual
options.

[⌊Integrations — detected third-party plugins and compatibility status.⌉⌊Integrations—
detected third-party plugins and compatibility status.⌉[

Integrations — detected third-party plugins and compatibility status.

[⌊Modal Search — configuration for the overlay search experience.⌉⌊Modal Search —
configuration for the overlay search experience.⌉[

Modal Search — configuration for the overlay search experience.

[⌊Analytics & reporting settings tab — logging, engagement tracking, and email report
options.⌉⌊Analytics & reporting settings tab — logging, engagement tracking, and
email report options.⌉[

Analytics & reporting settings tab — logging, engagement tracking, and email report
options.

[⌊Smart Search — Overview tab summarizing AI provider status and enabled features.⌉⌊
Smart Search — Overview tab summarizing AI provider status and enabled features.⌉[

Smart Search — Overview tab summarizing AI provider status and enabled features.

[⌊Search Filter — Filter Display Rules, controlling which filters appear and where.⌉⌊
Search Filter — Filter Display Rules, controlling which filters appear and where
.⌉[

Search Filter — Filter Display Rules, controlling which filters appear and where.

[⌊Smart Search — Usage Analytics tab with token usage and estimated cost per provider.⌉⌊
Smart Search — Usage Analytics tab with token usage and estimated cost per provider
.⌉[

Smart Search — Usage Analytics tab with token usage and estimated cost per provider.

[⌊Analytics & Logs — Overview: search volume trends and search outcomes.⌉⌊Analytics&
Logs — Overview: search volume trends and search outcomes.⌉[

Analytics & Logs — Overview: search volume trends and search outcomes.

[⌊Analytics & Logs — Overview: results breakdown by day, top and trending searches.⌉⌊
Analytics & Logs — Overview: results breakdown by day, top and trending searches
.⌉[

Analytics & Logs — Overview: results breakdown by day, top and trending searches.

[⌊Analytics & Logs — Search Logs, detailed query history with results and click 
data.⌉⌊Analytics & Logs — Search Logs, detailed query history with results and click
data.⌉[

Analytics & Logs — Search Logs, detailed query history with results and click data.

[⌊Analytics & Logs — Engagement tab, scroll-depth funnel and mouse heat zones.⌉⌊
Analytics & Logs — Engagement tab, scroll-depth funnel and mouse heat zones.⌉[

Analytics & Logs — Engagement tab, scroll-depth funnel and mouse heat zones.

[⌊Search Form Replacement — swapping in the Rankology search bar.⌉⌊Search Form Replacement—
swapping in the Rankology search bar.⌉[

Search Form Replacement — swapping in the Rankology search bar.

[⌊Search Filter — live filter panel on the frontend.⌉⌊Search Filter — live filter
panel on the frontend.⌉[

Search Filter — live filter panel on the frontend.

[⌊Search Results — live AJAX results with thumbnails and keyword highlighting.⌉⌊
Search Results — live AJAX results with thumbnails and keyword highlighting.⌉[

Search Results — live AJAX results with thumbnails and keyword highlighting.

## Blocos

Este plugin disponibiliza 1 bloco.

 *   Rankology Live Search

## Instalação

#### Automatic installation

 1. In your WordPress admin, go to **Plugins  Add New**.
 2. Search for **Rankology Ajax Live Search**.
 3. Click **Install Now**, then **Activate**.

#### Manual installation

 1. Upload the `rankajlisrh` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`.
 2. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** screen in WordPress.
 3. Go to **Rankology  Appearance** to review global search settings.
 4. Go to **Rankology  Search Widgets** to create your first search widget, or add 
    the block/shortcode to a page.

#### After activation

 1. Visit **Rankology  Search Indexing** and run an initial index build if one is not
    started automatically.
 2. Place a search widget using the Gutenberg block, `[rankajlisrh]` shortcode, or 
    classic widget.
 3. Optional: enable search logging under **Rankology  Settings**, then review results
    under **Rankology  Analytics & Logs**.

## Perguntas frequentes

### Does Rankology work with WooCommerce?

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.

### Does this replace the default WordPress search?

Rankology does not remove WordPress core search automatically. You place the Rankology
search bar where you want it — via block, shortcode, or widget — and can customize
the on-site search results template for a complete replacement experience.

### How do I add search to my theme header?

Create a Search Widget in **Rankology  Search Widgets**, 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** Gutenberg block in the site 
editor.

### What is a Search Widget?

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 — useful when a shop search and a blog search need different behavior.

### Will Rankology slow down my site?

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.

### Can I see what visitors search for?

Yes. Enable search analytics and visit **Rankology  Analytics & Logs** 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.

### What are query redirect rules?

Redirect rules let you send specific search queries (exact or pattern-based) to 
a custom URL — for campaigns, synonyms, or steering users to the right landing page.
Rules can be scoped by user role and language, and live under **Rankology  Result
Tuning  Redirects**. With Smart Search enabled, semantic matching can also catch
queries that don’t match a rule’s exact pattern.

### What does Smart Search / AI do, and is it required?

No — 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.

### Is there a REST API?

Yes. Rankology exposes REST endpoints under `rankajlisrh/v1` covering search, click
tracking, redirects, merchandising, A/B experiments, engagement tracking, personalization,
voice parsing, and Smart Search summary streaming — suitable for headless WordPress
and custom front ends.

### Does Rankology work on multisite?

Yes. Network-level settings synchronization is available for WordPress multisite
installations, with optional per-subsite overrides when individual sites need different
settings.

### Do I need extra libraries for PDF or DOCX indexing?

Yes, if you want file content indexing beyond plain TXT files. Install `smalot/pdfparser`
for PDF support and `phpoffice/phpword` for DOCX support via Composer on your server.
Rankology detects them automatically when available. They are not bundled with the
plugin.

### Does Rankology bundle React or other JavaScript frameworks?

No. The admin dashboard hub uses WordPress core packages (`wp-element`, `wp-components`,`
wp-i18n`). Frontend scripts are custom and depend on jQuery, which WordPress provides.

### Does Rankology send data to external services?

When **Google-style autocomplete** is enabled, partial search terms are sent to 
Google’s public suggest API (`suggestqueries.google.com`) to retrieve suggestion
phrases. Responses are cached locally with WordPress transients. All other search,
indexing, and analytics data stays on your WordPress site unless you configure email
reports through your own mail server via `wp_mail()`.

## Avaliações

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## Colaboradores e desenvolvedores

“Rankology Ajax Live Search” é um programa de código aberto. As seguintes pessoas
contribuíram para este plugin.

Colaboradores

 *   [ Rankology ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rankology/)

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[Navegue pelo código](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rankology-ajax-live-search/),
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ou assine o [registro de desenvolvimento](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/rankology-ajax-live-search/)
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## Registro de alterações

#### 1.1.0

 * Zero-result and low-CTR alerts — scheduled analytics checks that flag queries
   returning nothing or rarely clicked.
 * Trending / Popular Searches frontend widget — Gutenberg block, shortcode, and
   classic widget support.
 * Add to cart directly from live search results for WooCommerce products.
 * Multisite per-subsite overrides on top of existing network settings sync.
 * Privacy tools integration — search logs are exportable/erasable via WordPress
   core’s personal data tools, and tracking respects the WP Consent API “statistics”
   category when present.
 * Scheduled campaign windows for result merchandising rules (pin/promote/hide rules
   can activate and expire automatically on start/end dates).
 * Cache-plugin compatibility layer — automatic detection and remediation adapters
   for common caching plugins so cached pages don’t serve stale search results.
 * Admin information architecture consolidated from 15 to 11 sidebar rows, with 
   several settings relocated to their correct tabs.
 * Search Tuning tabs now switch in place with per-tab hero sections; sidebar “jump”
   links now stay in sync with the active tab across all Settings and Integrations
   pages.
 * Analytics & Logs Engagement tab now shows the scroll-depth funnel and mouse heat
   zones side by side.
 * Admin settings clarity, field dependency wiring, and save-safety across multiple
   settings tabs.
 * Full PHPCS compliance pass across analytics, multisite, and Smart Search code,
   and remaining unprefixed JS globals prefixed per WordPress.org plugin review 
   guidance.
 * Database schema updated to version 1.10.0 (automatic on activation/update, no
   manual action needed).

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial public release.
 * Live AJAX search with autocomplete, multiple layouts, themes, and responsive 
   UI.
 * Custom search index with BM25 relevance scoring, field weights, and optional 
   PDF/DOCX/TXT extraction.
 * Search Widgets (custom post type) with Gutenberg block, shortcode, and classic
   widget support.
 * Advanced live filters: taxonomy, price range, custom fields, and visual filter
   builder.
 * WooCommerce product search with price display and SKU weighting.
 * Analytics & Search Logs: top queries, trending terms, zero-result tracking, click
   logging, CSV/PDF export, and email reports.
 * Query redirect rules with admin UI and REST API.
 * REST API, rate limiting, transient caching, modal search, and voice search.
 * WP-CLI index commands, multisite network settings sync, and legacy plugin migration
   tools.

## Meta

 *  Versão **1.1.0**
 *  Última atualização **2 meses atrás**
 *  Instalações ativas **Menos de 10**
 *  Versão do WordPress ** 6.2 ou superior **
 *  Testado até **7.0.7**
 *  Versão do PHP ** 8.1 ou superior **
 *  Idioma
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-ajax-live-search/)
 * Tags
 * [ajax product filter](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax-product-filter/)
   [search by sku](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search-by-sku/)[woocommerce filter](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce-filter/)
   [woocommerce product filter](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce-product-filter/)
   [woocommerce product search](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce-product-search/)
 *  [Visualização avançada](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-ajax-live-search/advanced/)

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## Colaboradores

 *   [ Rankology ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rankology/)

## Suporte

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