Search Console: Powerful WordPress Search Plugin
The Search Console is the ultimate WordPress search plugin, ideal for improving WordPress search suggestions to direct users to relevant content.
Automatically redirect users as they type their search, suggest query terms and replace unwanted words.
Protect yourself from hackers and spam bots attempting to crash your site with DoS (denial-of-service) attacks.
Using the WordPress Search Console Plugin
- Redirect Search – Send users to a specific internal URL based on the search terms
- Suggest Search – Dynamically show multiple suggestions that match what the visitor is typing
- Fix Search – Guide users and help them avoid spelling mistakes and undesired words
- Ban Search – Prevent visitors from searching certain terms and block suspect ID addresses
Search Console Use Case Examples
- Improve FAQ – Integrate FAQ and search box, directing users to the most common questions
- Overhaul Index – Let users find a specific page or product quickly, even if you have hundreds of items
- MultiLanguage Site – Help foreign users by replacing terms such as “ayuda” for “help” and send them to the FAQ
- Retire Old Pages – If users are looking for a discontinued product, you can direct that query to the newest version
Search Console Plugin Related Use Cases
- How To Redirect a User’s Search Terms to a Specific Landing Page On Your Site
- How To Automatically Replace the Search Term a User Used With Another One
- How To Add Search Autocomplete To Your Site
- How To Stop Malicious IPs From Slowing Down Your Site With Many Search Requests
Search Console Additional Resources
Search Console Related Plugins
WordPress Search Console Plugin Features
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
Overhaul Search – Boost your site usability and make your content much more easy to find and access | |
Redirect Users – Improve user experience by directing visitors to an internal URL based on different queries | |
Suggest Terms – List unlimited suggestions on the spot based on what the user is typing into the search bar | |
Replace Words – Filter typos, swear words and competitor names by automatically replacing them, guiding users to more relevant content inside your domain | |
Ban Searches – Prevent users from searching for certain terms and either redirect them or show an error message | |
Suspicious IP List – Track every IP address as they perform a banned search | |
Block IPs – Choose to ban or allow each IP addresses that searched for banned terms | |
Clean Interface – Manage all rules from a single dashboard, and create them quickly by using shortcuts from the search log | |
Search Log – Review how many times and when was the last time each term was searched | |
Search Graph – View the search volume over time in a histogram graph |
Search Console Related Plugins
WordPress Search Console Plugin Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
Why do I need this plugin?
The default WordPress search is severely limited. This results in users having a hard time finding the most relevant content, especially if your site has information spread between many pages.
Search Console fixes that by providing redirect, suggest and replace rules to overhaul search.
Finally, you can easily improve site performance by blocking certain searches or suspicious IP addresses that perform those unallowed queries.
What are the Search Console improvements?
The plugin has four search-improving tools:
- Redirect – Whenever a user searches for a certain word in the search bar, he/she will be redirected to an internal URL of your choice.Learn more: Search Improvement Tools – Redirect From Search
- Replace – Whenever a user searches for a certain word in the search bar, that word will be replaced with another. Learn more: Replace From Search
- Suggest – The search box will suggest certain terms based on what the user is searching. Learn more: Suggest From Search
- Ban Search – Visitors who search for banned terms will be either redirected or showed an error message. Learn more: Ban From Search
Does this plugin add a search bar to my site?
No. The placement of the search bar depends on your theme’s configurations.
As a rule of thumb, it may be enabled from the Customize option in the admin panel. But, if you are unsure how to add or modify it, you should consult the documentation of your theme.



Example of where to enable the search bar using the Divi theme
Can I check how many times a term was searched for?
Learn more: Search Log.
Does the plugin collect any user data?
Yes, the plugin collects IP addresses only of users that search for banned terms.
The general search log lists search count and date anonymously.
Can I use this plugin in languages other than English?
WordPress Search Console
Customer Reviews for the Plugin
- Super HelpfulWe are in the home building business, and we specialize in building semi-custom and custom luxury homes. This plugin helps us direct clients who are looking for semi-custom or custom without getting a million inquiries through support. It really organized our search for our website. Thanks! 10/10 would recommend!
- FAQ is 100x betterWe have an extensive FAQ page with a competent internal search. The bonus here is that we can direct users from anywhere in the site to SPECIFIC FAQ items based on what they are looking for.
- Many possibilitiesI'm using it for two functionalities: directing international users (that mostly write in Spanish and Portuguese) to the main product pages, and to block spammers via IP block from searching. Great work guys
- Good ;)Did not slow down the site even after we added more than 40 search rules
WordPress Search Console Release Notes
Version 1.2.2 from 11th May 2022
- Added ability to mark any posts, page, and any post type as excluded for search
Version 1.2.1 from 31st Dec 2021
- Added support to change direction
- Bugfix related to disable loading icon option
- Fixed the bug with checkboxes not being saved correctly in Search terms log
- Updated package 1.9.1
Version 1.2.0 from 25th Nov 2019
- Security update
Version 1.1.4 from 5th Sep 2019
- Added the whitelist filter for the search crawlers (so they can never be banned)
Version 1.1.3 from 29th Aug 2019
- Fixed the styling of the filters
Version 1.1.2 from 13th Aug 2019
- Updated the support for CM 404 Console
- Added the option to search the Banned IP table by IP
Version 1.1.1 from 24th July 2019
- Added the option to remove the single row from the search term log
Version 1.1.0 from 9th July 2019
- Added the graphs for search terms and banned searches volume
- Added the option to mark the items in the log as “Reviewed”
- Added the number of items in each dashboard
- Sorted the items in dashboards alphabetically
- Added the loading icon functionality
- Fixed a bug with counting the same search multiple times
- Optimized the speed
Version 1.0.2 from 19th June 2019
- Bug fix in some cases banning all terms
Version 1.0.1 from 18th June 2019
- Added the banned IPs dashboard
- Fixed bug with adding to the banned searches from the Search Term dashboard
- Reorganized the options
- Improved the performance
Version 1.0.0 13th Jan 2019
- First Release