Spectacu.la Advanced Search
Changes the Wordpress search queries to provide more relevant results more efficiently and with options to influence the results.
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·10 active installs·Updated 15 years agoAs of April 2026, Spectacu.la Advanced Search is a WordPress search plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: String locator.
0/5Rating
10active installs
3.0K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
This plug-in provides you with more relevant search results than are currently
available to the normal WordPress search and it should also do so with less of a
performance hit on the db than the normal WordPress search. We use the MySQL
commands MATCH () AGAINST () as opposed to WordPress’ use of LIKE to do our
queries which are not as heavy on the db. The only issue we have with “match
against” is that we need an index on the columns we intend to search on.
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.7.0+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.3
- Moved out of beta and corrected a few typos.
Contributors
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