Init Live Search – AI-Powered, Related Posts, Slash Commands
Fast, modern live search powered by REST API — with AI-powered Related Posts Engine, slash commands, SEO-aware, ACF, Woo, and custom UI presets.
5(6 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Init Live Search is a WordPress ai search plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: WP Search with Algolia.
5/56 reviews
100active installs
2.9K+total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
Deliver an ultra-responsive search experience to your visitors — no page reloads, no jQuery, no lag. Init Live Search is a modern, lightweight, and fully accessible live search solution for WordPress — now with tag-aware matching, SEO metadata support, ACF integration, WooCommerce product filters, and customizable UI presets.
It replaces the default <input name="s"> with a clean, intuitive search modal powered entirely by the WordPress REST API. Everything loads in real-time — with zero disruption to browsing flow.
Perfect for content-heavy blogs, WooCommerce stores, or even headless sites. Every interaction is fast, fluid, and designed to work across devices.
It also brings AI-powered related posts and an advanced keyword generator — giving your visitors smarter ways to discover co…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Changelog
1.8.9 – February 25, 2026
- Keyword Generator v3: fully redesigned scoring pipeline for higher accuracy across diverse site types
- Title-only source: removed excerpt from input — cleaner signal, no auto-generated noise, consistent across all WordPress sites
- NPMI fix: corrected probability base so unigram and n-gram probabilities use a unified token count — eliminates score inflation from the previous implementation
- Trigram support: generator now produces both bigrams and trigrams, surfacing longer, more specific keyword phrases
- Cross-document frequency penalty: phrases appearing in more than 60% of posts are down-ranked — prevents generic terms from dominating results on content-heavy sites
…and 2 more changes
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Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.