Searcio - Fast AI Product Search for WooCommerce

Connect WordPress and WooCommerce to Searcio - a fast, hosted search service - and give visitors an instant, full-screen search experience for your posts, pages, and products.

The plugin indexes your content into Searcio, keeps it in sync as content changes, and renders a client-side search modal (via a Gutenberg block or an Elementor widget) that searches, filters, and displays results without a page reload.

Features

• Full-screen search modal - a fast, keyboard-friendly overlay with search-as-you-type, autocomplete suggestions, recent and popular searches, and an empty-state highlights carousel.
• Faceted filtering - filter results by content type and by any field you've configured as a facet (category, tags, and so on), with a minimum/maximum for numeric fields such as price or rating.
• WooCommerce support - indexes products with price, stock status, categories, tags, ratings, and variations; result cards show formatted prices, sale badges, and stock status.
• Gutenberg block and Elementor widget - the same search experience, fully themeable (colors, radius, typography, spacing) from either editor, with no code required.
• Server-designed result cards - optionally use card templates designed in the Searcio dashboard instead of the plugin's built-in card layout.
• Configurable indexing - choose which post types and WooCommerce products to index, and map custom fields, taxonomies, and built-in properties to searchable data.
• Search relevance control - tune searchable fields and weights, per-type ranking boosts, facet and suggestion fields, and synonyms - all from Searcio's own configuration, editable from the plugin's admin screen.
• AI Assistant - a chat tab that answers in prose and shows the products it is talking about, with a table to compare them.
• Search by photo - shoppers upload a photo instead of typing; a vision model describes it and searches for that.
• Guided quiz - a few questions that narrow the catalogue down for shoppers who know what they want but not what it is called.
• Search redirects - send well-known terms straight to a page instead of showing results.
• Similar products - a "you may also like" row on product pages, matched by meaning rather than by shared tags.
• Category merchandising - curate a category listing: pin products to the top, keep products out, show a banner.
• Multilingual (WPML / Polylang) - optionally restrict indexing and search to specific languages; visitors only see results in their current language.
• Background sync - a resumable, batched sync engine keeps your index up to date automatically, plus an incremental sync that pushes edits shortly after they happen. A sync that cannot reach Searcio tries again by itself. Full sync history, pause/resume/cancel controls, and retention settings are all available from the dashboard.
• WP-CLI support - run and monitor syncs from the command line for real system-cron setups.

The AI Assistant, search by photo and the quiz appear when your Searcio plan and setup include them.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.8 or later
• PHP 8.3 or later
• A Searcio account - one is created for you when you connect, if your email does not have one yet
• WooCommerce 8.0+ (optional - only needed to index and search products)
• WPML or Polylang (optional - only needed for multilingual search scoping)

Installation

1. Install and activate the plugin like any other WordPress plugin. The package is the searcio-<version>.zip attached to each release.
2. Go to Searcio in the WordPress admin menu. A site that is not connected yet opens on the Connection tab.
3. Accept the terms and click Connect to Searcio. If you already have keys for this site, enter them under Advanced: manual key entry instead.
4. Open the Indexing tab and choose which content should be searchable.
5. Open the Sync tab and start your first sync.
6. Add the Searcio Search block to a page (or the Searcio Search widget in Elementor) to place the search trigger anywhere on your site.

See docs/installation.md for a more detailed walkthrough.

Documentation

• Installation & setup
• Configuration reference - every setting, tab by tab
• Multilingual support - WPML / Polylang behavior
• Frequently asked questions
• Developer guide - architecture, REST API, WP-CLI, database tables, testing, translations, releasing, and contributing
• Changelog

License

GPL-3.0-or-later