CatCode Smart Search for WooCommerce
The standard WooCommerce search looks for the exact letters you typed. “Notebok”, “ноутбак”, “AB 123-45” instead of “AB12345” — and the shopper sees “No products were found” while the product is right there. Smart Search fixes that without sending your catalogue to an outside service: it keeps its o
The standard WooCommerce search looks for the exact letters you typed. “Notebok”, “ноутбак”, “AB 123-45” instead of “AB12345” — and the shopper sees “No products were found” while the product is right there. Smart Search fixes that without sending your catalogue to an outside service: it keeps its own compact index in your WordPress database and answers from it.
What shoppers get
- Typos are forgiven. One typo in words of 4–6 letters, two in longer words; swapped letters count as one typo. “Showing results for …” tells the shopper what was searched.
- SKUs the way people type them. “AB-123 45”, “ab12345” and “AB 12345” all find AB12345; Cyrillic letters that look like Latin ones (А, В, С, Е, Н, К, М, О, Р, Т, Х) are read as Latin. The exact SKU comes first.
- Ukrainian and Russian spellings together. “телевізор” finds “Телевизор”, “мило” finds “Мыло”: і/и/ы, є/е/э, ї, ґ and the apostrophe are matched automatically.
- Word forms. “чохли” finds “чохла”, “headphones” finds “headphone”.
- Live suggestions under the search field: product image, price, SKU, the categories the results are in, “All results (N)”. Keyboard navigation, works on mobile, no jQuery.
- Ranked results page. Name and SKU matches first, then categories and brands; products in stock before sold-out ones. The shopper can still sort by price or popularity.
What the shop owner gets
- An index that updates itself when a product, its stock or its category changes; big imports are indexed in the background.
- The first build runs in the background after activation; the shop keeps its standard search until the index is ready.
- A search tester in the admin: type like a shopper, see the results and the time it took.
- WP-CLI: wp catcode-srch reindex , wp catcode-srch search "query" , wp catcode-srch stats .
- A ready-made form: [catcode_srch_search] .
Fast on big catalogues
A search reads the vocabulary, the entries of the few words it picked and the rows of the winners — never the products table with LIKE. The index lives in five small tables with the keys the queries need.
