ElasticPress

ElasticPress is a WordPress plugin that integrates Elasticsearch with WordPress to dramatically improve search functionality and query performance. It replaces WordPress's default MySQL-based search with Elasticsearch's powerful full-text search engine, delivering faster, more relevant results. ElasticPress indexes WordPress content including posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, and metadata into Elasticsearch, enabling advanced search features like fuzzy matching, synonyms, and weighted field searching. The plugin can handle misspellings, partial word matches, and complex queries that would be slow or impossible with standard WordPress search. Beyond search, ElasticPress can optimize other database-intensive queries like complex taxonomy filters, meta queries, and WooCommerce product searches. It provides features like autosuggest, faceted search, and search result highlighting without requiring custom development. ElasticPress offers both self-hosted Elasticsearch configurations and managed hosting through ElasticPress.io, making enterprise-grade search accessible to WordPress sites of all sizes.