Jetpack Search is a powerful replacement for the search capability built into WordPress. It provides higher quality results and an improved search experience
Search is a powerful search solution backed by Elasticsearch, Jetpack Stats, and our globally distributed data centers. We process your data with multiple technologies for a modern search experience that improves website engagement, so visitors can search, refine their results, and find the content and products that interest them.
This feature is available with a Jetpack Search subscription.
Search includes an API that will speed up the search experience and minimize delays. We think you’ll love some of the new features:
- Instant search and filtering without reloading the page
- Real-time indexing supports your search as you type
- Theme compatibility for both desktop and mobile
- Prioritized results based on your site traffic
- Spelling correction and highlighting matching terms
Pricing
Pricing for Jetpack Search depends on how many “records” your site has — posts, pages, products, and custom post types including products. Plans are monthly or annually and when your plan auto-renews, the pricing will automatically adjust based on the number of records in your search index. Here are the cost tiers per month:
- Up to 100 records: $5
- Up to 1,000 records: $10
- Up to 10,000 records: $25
- Up to 100,000 records: $60
- Up to 1 million records: $200
- Over 1 million records: $200 per million records (yes, we have sites with more than a million records!)
When you sign up for an annual plan, you get two months free per year.
Getting Started
Search is active and pre-configured as soon as you purchase the plan.
Once you have the plan, you can start by customizing its appearance using the Customizer.
Search uses an overlay to display all search results. There are a number of configuration options for that overlay available in the Customizer. Use the “Jetpack Search” top-level menu to configure the colors and styles in the overlay.
Sidebar and Widget
A new sidebar and widget are added to the site as soon as you complete the plan purchase. It even comes complete with preloaded filter types that you can remove and configure as you like.
You can configure the filters that will be available to your users on both desktop and mobile searches.
You can also add the Search (Jetpack) widget to any of the sidebars included with your theme.
Any filters you configure will open the search overlay automatically no matter where the widget lives.
FAQ
Coming Soon!
If you have questions or concerns, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to contact us.
Privacy Information
This feature is deactivated by default, and activating/unlocking it requires an upgrade to a Jetpack Search subscription. If you ever need to deactivate the feature, you can do so by toggling the Enable Search setting in the Search section from Jetpack — Settings — Performance in your dashboard.