What changed and when.

Shoppers who type the plural now find the singular. On a French-language store this was the single most common way a search came back empty.

• "chaussures" finds "Chaussure", "chevaux" finds "Cheval". Irregular plurals are handled, and words that only look plural are left alone: prix stays prix, souris stays souris.
• French rules apply to French-language stores only, so English or German product names are never mangled.
• New optional search index, built from the Performance tab in one click, with the row count in front of you. It is optional on purpose, and the screen says why.
• The design tab was rebuilt: thirteen rows became seven, a live preview shows the bar in both states, and colours are picked with WordPress’ own picker — paste a brand colour straight in.
• Fixed: choosing the Custom preset used to ignore five of your colours, so the storefront never matched the screen.
• Analytics now count a search as successful when it opens a category, not only a product.

Higher result ceiling and broader WordPress compatibility — stores with large catalogs can now surface up to 100 products per query.

• Search results now configurable up to 100 — large catalogs can show significantly more matches per query.
• Improved compatibility with WordPress installations older than 6.1.

More flexibility over results count and analytics retention, plus several reliability and security improvements.

• Results count is now freely configurable up to 20 — adjust it to match your store layout and catalog size.
• Analytics retention is now configurable from 1 to 90 days — keep as much or as little history as you need.
• Reliability and security improvements across the search form, translations, and block editor integration.

Faster search on big catalogs, native support for block themes, smarter caching, and a long list of polish across the mobile overlay, analytics export, and theme compatibility.

• Big speed boost for stores with thousands of products: search now scales without slowing down.
• Works natively with block themes (Twenty Twenty-Four and other Full Site Editing themes).
• Repeat searches across visitors are now near-instant thanks to smarter server-side caching.
• Editing a product now updates search results instantly. No manual cache clearing.
• Text search buttons automatically swap for a compact icon on phones so they no longer overflow.
• Installing Pro now cleanly replaces Free. No duplicate menus, no manual deactivation.
• Dropdown now positions correctly inside Elementor and Divi page builders.
• Live sites load smaller, faster CSS and JavaScript.
• The search bar reliably loads its styles, even when placed via unusual theme hooks.
• CSV exports now handle very large datasets without timing out.
• CSV exports open correctly in Excel on Windows (special characters preserved).
• Keyboard: pressing the up arrow on an empty search now jumps to the last result.
• Keyboard: pressing Tab now closes the dropdown cleanly.
• Failed search requests now show a clear error message instead of freezing.
• Closing the mobile search returns focus to the right place for screen readers.
• You can now safely place more than one search bar on the same page.
• Better visual stability across themes with aggressive default styles.
• On Shoptimizer, the built-in search no longer interferes with Glance.
• Admin animations now respect your operating system's reduced-motion preference.
• Tighter handling of special characters typed into the search bar (security).
• Modal and Inline display modes have been removed. The dropdown style is the only one now, and it works better everywhere.
• Search bar no longer appears unstyled on the homepage with certain themes.
• Search requests now load correctly on stores using WooCommerce's alternate request handling.
• No more crash when Pro and Free were accidentally activated at the same time.
• Pro-only color and display options no longer appear in the Free version.

A much better mobile experience, a fast in-browser cache, search history, and native blocks for Gutenberg and Elementor.

• Repeat searches within a visit are now instant (results cached in the browser for 5 minutes).
• A "View all results" link below the dropdown so customers can see everything that matched.
• Search history: recent searches appear when shoppers focus the empty search bar, with a one-click clear.
• Full-screen search experience on mobile, with safe-area support for notched iPhones.
• Option to also search inside product descriptions and short descriptions.
• Search now matches product tags too.
• Faster search responses on WooCommerce thanks to a dedicated, lightweight endpoint.
• Native Gutenberg block and Elementor widget. No shortcode needed.
• Analytics are now more accurate. They only count real searches, not cache hits.
• Search history items are fully sanitized (security).
• The background page no longer scrolls underneath the mobile overlay.

Click tracking, upsell recommendations, three new design presets, and category results.

• Click-through tracking: see which results customers actually click on.
• Upsell recommendations shown under search results.
• Three new design presets to start from: Sharp, Clean, and Pill.
• Search now matches product categories alongside titles and SKUs.
• Better protection against bots and abusive search traffic.
• Smoother updates between versions thanks to a built-in migration system.

The first analytics dashboard, multilingual support, and inventory-aware filters.

• Analytics dashboard: see what your customers actually search for, including queries that returned nothing.
• Multilingual support for stores running Polylang or WPML.
• Filter search results by price range and in-stock status.

The first public release.

• Instant AJAX live search for WooCommerce products: by title and SKU, with images and prices in the dropdown.