Solr Search for WordPress
Improve your user experience with the Apache Solr search engine for your WordPress website.
4(2 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Solr Search for WordPress is a WordPress search plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 93K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Relevanssi – A Better Search.
4/52 reviews
100active installs
93K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Search is critical for your site, but the default search for WordPress leaves a lot to be desired. Improve your user experience with the Apache Solr search engine for your WordPress website.
- Fast results, with better accuracy.
- Enables faceting on fields such as tags, categories, author, and page type.
- Indexing and faceting on custom fields.
- Drop-in support for WP_Query with the
solr_integrateparameter set to true. - Completely replaces default WordPress search, just install and configure.
- Completely integrated into default WordPress theme and search widget.
- Very developer-friendly: uses the modern Solarium library
Development
This plugin is under active development on GitHub:
https://github.com/pantheon-systems/solr-power
Please feel free to file issues there. Pull requests are also wel…
Ratings & Reviews
42 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.6.0 (December 05, 2024)
- Adds
is_solr_queryfilter [#588] (props @sboisvert) - Fixes custom schema file path for Composer Managed and other non-standard uploads directories. [#637]
- Adds filter
solr_power_customer_schema_file_pathto specify an alternative custom schema.xml file. [#637]
Contributors
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