Ricerca – advanced search

Description

Ricerca is a SMART AND FAST SEARCH that can greatly enhance the user experience for visitors to your website.

It makes finding the content they are looking for faster and more convenient by providing suggestions as they type their search query. This is achieved through the use of algorithms that analyze the website’s content and match it with the user’s input in real-time.

The plugin easy to install and set up. The Mega drop down feature is customizable, allowing you to specify which pages and posts should be included in the search results and how the suggestions are displayed.

The plugin also supports the use of synonyms, which can help expand the search results to include related content that might not be an exact match to the user’s query.

This can result in a more comprehensive search experience for visitors, as they are able to quickly find the information they are looking for, even if their original search query was not an exact match.

Additionally, the plugin has an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to use and customize, making it accessible to both experienced and novice users. Overall, a smart search plugin is a valuable tool for improving the search functionality of your website and providing a better experience for visitors.

A smart search plugin functionality can greatly enhance the search experience for users on a website. This type of plugin provides an intuitive interface that suggests search results as the user types their query, making it easier for them to find what they are looking for. Additionally, a smart search plugin can use advanced algorithms to deliver more relevant results, even if the user’s search query is incomplete or misspelled.

Ricerca has been tested on a site that contains 4000+ products.

Demo.

CREDITS

Created with love by systemsrtk.

OVER 20+ Advanced features

Ricerca includes a variety of 20+ features that improves site’s conversion and user experience:

  • Customize. Advanced customized Search Results.
  • Fast. Super fast search results.
  • High performance. Not affect on page load. Ricerca tested on a live site with 4000+ products.
  • Reports. See what visitors intersted on.
  • Popular terms. Share popular terms between visitors.
  • Search Categories. Categories and products results.
  • Collection creator. Create search items sets (e.g: summer collection).
  • Terms corrector. Monitor and review this feature to find terms which leads to “Not found results” on your site in order to suggest and show alternative results by fixing terms.
  • Promotions system. Create discover items widgets base on visitors search queries.
  • Items ordering. Control dynamic items order (e.g: most clicked).
  • Terms blocking. Block unwanted search terms.
  • Woocommerce and Elementor compatible​. Full compatible with Woocommerce and Elementor and more themes.
  • Add to cart. Allow visitors to add products to cart, directly from search results.
  • Auto suggest​. Suggest terms based on visitors search.
  • Name crossing. Show product search results from the category whose it’s named meets the requested term.
  • Exclude out of stock. Prevent out of stock product to show in search results.
  • RTL / LTR support.

Need any help?

You can submit it in Ricerca Support page.
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Screenshots

  • General settings
  • Posts indexing settings
  • Frontend modal layout
  • Woocommerce compatibility settings

FAQ

How Do I Customize Search Results?

on the plugin’s settings it is possible to decide which posts and taxonomies to sync. Also under “Posts indexing options” it is possible to chose what to index – content, sku, post’s name, post’s excerpt and etc’

Does the plugin support rtl?

Yes.

Is Ricerca Compatible With Elementor ?

once your site is using elementor “search form” widget Ricerca knows how to integrate it so you will be able to use Ricerca within the widget. On the premium plan it soon will be possible to add Ricerca search widget to your elementor site!

How Do I Block Terms From Appearing Under “Popular Terms”?

Under “Miscellaneous” it is possible to type terms you would like to block.

Can I Test Ricerca Before Going Live?

Sure you can! Just go to “General” and check the “Preview mode” checkbox

Is Ricerca Compatible With Woocommerce?

Yes, the plugin has Woocommerce compatibility where it is possible to turn on and off “Add to cart” and “Price” features.

Is Ricerca Compatible With GDPR?

Yes, the plugin does not collect any personal data of visitors in any way. and doesn’t send data to 3rd party.

Is Ricerca Compatible With PolyLang plugin?

Yes, the plugin show results according the current language.

I have Woocommerce, Sale price remains after sale ends?

This and Woocommerce issue, please verify woocommerce_scheduled_sales. some times,
the event deleted entirely from a WordPress Cron jobs.

Reviews

May 16, 2023
The user interface of Ricerca is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The installation and setup process is quick and easy, and the software integrates seamlessly with my website.
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Contributors & Developers

“Ricerca – advanced search” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Ricerca – advanced search” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Ricerca – advanced search” into your language.

Interested in development?

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Changelog

1.1.8

  • Performance bug
  • Update tag list

1.1.7

  • Translations

1.1.6

  • Alow open search results in new tab
  • Cleanup comments
  • Include woocommerce products native search

1.1.5

  • Optimize load css content

1.1.4

  • Update read me

1.1.3

  • Fix detect current locale bug

1.1.2

  • Improve Lazy loading items
  • Hide item on post status change

1.1.1

  • Fix bug on clear input drop not closed

1.1.0

  • Add support POLYLANG plugin

1.0.61

  • Optimize detect deleted or unpublish items

1.0.60

  • Test on WP 6.4.1

1.0.59

  • Extend products width when disable categories
  • Enhance loading in case of thousands of items

1.0.58

  • Fix LCP on optimize load items by ajax
  • Change admin table library

1.0.57

  • Link to search page cut on some mobile browsers.
  • Some performance tweaks
  • Enhance security

1.0.56

  • Crons not run in preview mode
  • Update Screenshots
  • Fix bug in item select field
  • Add dashboard to show items in index

1.0.56

  • Crons not run in preview mode
  • Update Screenshots
  • Fix bug in item select field
  • Add dashboard to show items in index

1.0.55

  • Hide trashed items
  • Restore trashed items
  • Keep checking for missed items

1.0.54

  • Allow run the search from button
  • CSS adjustments
  • Translations

1.0.53

  • Fix bugs

1.0.52

  • Translations
  • Fix some CSS adjustments

1.0.51

  • Clear some PHP warnings

1.0.50

  • Fix terms not found bug
  • Set minimum PHP required version
  • Update translations

1.0.49

  • Fix bug on wide layout

1.0.48

  • Translations
  • Typos

1.0.47

  • Admin search field add hover on list item
  • Admin search field add sku on list item
  • Admin search field add id on list item
  • Admin search field show items by title only

1.0.46

  • Fix orderBy query
  • Enhance SQL query security
  • Admin search field add scrollbar

1.0.45

  • Fix Frontend bug
  • Fix Backend bugs

1.0.44

  • Images aspect ratio
  • update translations

1.0.42

  • Add wide layout
  • Customize font size
  • Customize wide layout width

1.0.40

  • Make simple layout 2 columns

1.0.39

  • Clear error logs
  • Arabic translations

1.0.38

  • Fix dashboard bug

1.0.37

  • Frontend performance
  • Optimize DB query
  • Exclude items

1.0.36

  • Fix bugs
  • Fix dashboard horizontal scrolling

1.0.35

  • Fix bugs

1.0.34

  • Set default fields
  • Fix duplicate search results
  • Optimize search query

1.0.33

  • Update readme file

1.0.32

  • Hebrew translations

1.0.31

  • Hebrew translations

1.0.30

  • Hebrew typos

1.0.28

  • Add Translations to Arabic

1.0.27

  • Add Translations to Hebrew

1.0.26

  • User history
  • Update readme

1.0.25

  • Missing translations
  • typos
  • Allow change default image size
  • Update contact us url

1.0.24

  • Missing translations

1.0.23

  • Fix some bugs

1.0.22

  • Fix some bugs

1.0.21

  • Allow change drop background
  • Allow use shortcodes

1.0.20

  • Add more information to status page
  • Allow set custom meta field for images

1.0.19

  • typos

1.0.18

  • typos

1.0.17

  • Admin UI
  • Fix some typos
  • Fix DB item url structure
  • Allow to export settings

1.0.16

  • Enhance security by add some nonces
  • Allow hide out of stock products
  • Enable sync directly after change settings
  • Fix Join query bug

1.0.15

  • Enhance DB’s security

1.0.14

  • Allow to open items in a new tab

1.0.10

  • Disable search field focus outline
  • Allow change search field label

1.0.9

  • Fix bug: unsyned post type, shown in results

1.0.8

  • Fix bug with caching plugins

1.0.7

  • Add preview mode

1.0.6

  • Fix some bugs

1.0.2

  • Fix mobile bug

1.0.1

  • Fix sample layout bug

1.0.0

  • First release.