Fetchie

Fetchie replaces WordPress’s built-in search with results that actually help: ranked by relevance, with the matching line highlighted and a link straight to that spot on the page. Self-hosted, on your own site.

There are keyword search plugins, and there are cloud or vector search services. Fetchie’s spot is the middle: relevance-ranked results with Google-style snippets, self-hosted, with no external search service and no vector database to run.

If your site has more than a handful of pages or products and people use the search box, yes. The bigger your catalogue, the more the default date-ordered search costs you in lost visitors.

No. Fetchie works on any WordPress site, and adds product and SKU search on top when you run WooCommerce. You’ll want WordPress 6+ and PHP 8+.

WordPress sorts results by date. Fetchie ranks by relevance, shows the line that matched, and links straight to that spot on the page. Best match first, not newest.

Yes. Every variation’s SKU and options fold into the parent product, so a SKU search lands on the right product page. No dead-end variation results a customer can’t buy from.

Every variation, rolled into the parent: the parent’s SKU, short description and attributes, plus each variation’s own SKU, options and description. A variation SKU search lands on the product page, and variations never show up as separate results.

No. Fetchie’s index is a few small tables in your own database. No vector store to host, no external search service, and nothing to keep in sync when your content changes.

Yes. Fetchie reads the rendered page, so builder content is fully searchable, and it steps aside for a search template you’ve built yourself. There are native blocks for Bricks, Gutenberg and Divi too.

Yes. Pick which content types are searchable, each shown with a count, keep out anything that doesn’t belong in results, and run a test page fetch before you build the whole index.

Yes. Fetchie reindexes a page when you publish it and drops it the moment you unpublish, with a nightly pass for anything that changed outside the editor. There’s nothing to rebuild by hand.

Yes, with one dial: Exact, Balanced or Broad. Change it and it applies to the very next search, with no reindex needed, so it’s quick to tune to what you sell.

Yes. The Insights tab shows your top searches and the ones that found nothing, with a digest email so the gaps reach you. It records what was searched, never who searched it.

No. Queries are logged with no name, account or IP attached, kept for a retention window you set, and you can switch recording off entirely. The insights are aggregate by design.

Self-hosted, always. The index and the search log are tables in your own database, so nothing about your content or your visitors leaves your hosting, and there’s no external service in the loop.

No, the opposite on a busy site. It answers from a lean index instead of scanning every post, so its cost scales with the query rather than how much content you have. It runs happily on shared hosting.

Yes. It takes over search with zero config, yields to your own search-results template, and drops ranked results in via the shortcode or native builder blocks, with a filter to force the take-over decision on unusual setups. And one licence covers up to five sites, so your staging site and a few client builds are covered without buying again.

Your site keeps working; search falls back to the WordPress default. If you uninstall, you choose whether the index and the search log are removed with it or kept for a reinstall.

$49 for your first year ($39.20 annual licence plus a one-off $9.80 sign-up), then $39.20 a year to renew. One licence covers up to five sites, so your staging build and a handful of client sites are all included. No monthly bills and no per-search fees, and renewals are already discounted.

Up to five. One Fetchie licence activates on five sites, all updating from the same licence, so your live site, a staging copy and a few client builds are covered without buying again.

Because the only way to make a free search plugin is to make it a worse one, and we would rather not. A search that stops indexing past a certain number of pages, or that holds back relevance ranking and snippets, isn’t a smaller Fetchie, it’s a broken one, and it would give you a poor first impression of the very thing we are proud of. Some plugins split cleanly into a complete free version and a paid one with extras; Trustie, our reviews plugin, is exactly that. Fetchie doesn’t divide that way without gutting the core. So instead of shipping a hobbled version, we keep it whole, price it flat and fairly (one licence, up to five sites), and back it with a 14-day refund. Try it on your real content, and if it isn’t better, send it back.