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Jetpack Search

Jetpack Search is a powerful replacement for the default search capability built into WordPress, providing higher-quality results and an improved search experience. This guide will show you how to add Jetpack Search to your site.

Animation showing the user typing in "sociial media" and the search returns accurate results.
Jetpack Search in action, where it doesn’t matter if your visitor makes a typo!

How Jetpack Search Works

Jetpack Search can be used as long as your website has a search function, most commonly achieved by adding a Search block somewhere on your site. In addition, many themes have a built-in search function already.

When you enable Jetpack Search, it takes over your site’s existing search function. It uses advanced search capabilities to support millions of queries across millions of documents and indexes changes to your content in real-time. Thanks to filtering, sorting, and intelligent phrase search, your visitors can find what they’re looking for fast.

Jetpack Search includes an optional instant search experience that shows results to your visitors as soon as they start typing. You can also customize the look and feel of the Search results to ensure it fits in well with your theme.

Jetpack Search indexes the following content:

Jetpack Search does not index draft pages or posts, private pages or posts, password-protected pages or posts, or PDF files in Media.

To add Jetpack Search to your website:

  1. Sign up for Jetpack Search via Jetpack.com. Jetpack Search is free for sites with up to 5000 records or 500 search requests per month, with paid options for larger sites.
  2. After you sign up, your site will have the Jetpack search experience turned on.
  3. You can then customize the Jetpack Search appearance via Jetpack → Search in your site’s dashboard.

To disable Jetpack Search, visit your dashboard and navigate to Jetpack → Search Settings → Performance.

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