=== Smart WooCommerce Search ===
Contributors: yummy-wp
Donate link: https://yummywp.com/
Tags: woocommerce search, ajax search, product search, instant search, woocommerce search plugin, search for woocommerce, search, woocommerce, woocommerce product search, search woocommerce, shop, shop search, autocomplete, autosuggest, search for wp, search for wordpress, search plugin, woocommerce search by sku, search results,  woocommerce search shortcode, search products, search autocomplete, woocommerce advanced search, woocommerce predictive search, woocommerce live search, woocommerce single product, woocommerce site search, products, shop, category search, custom search, predictive search, relevant search, search product, woocommerce plugin, posts search, wp search, wordpress search
Requires at least: 4.2
Tested up to: 4.9
Stable tag: 1.4.5
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Ajax Smart WooCommerce Search allows you to instantly search products.

== Description ==

= Smart Search plugin is smart, fast, and easy to use. =

[View plugin Demo](https://yummywp.com/plugins/smart-woocommerce-search/).

Smart WooCommerce Search provides efficient search through your website.

It is fast, and easy to use plugin for WooCommerce based websites with a huge amount of items.

The plugin could be easily integrated into the default WooCommerce Product Search widget in one click by just checking this option in the Smart Search Settings.

You can manage a lot of settings provided by the plugin to customize its appearance by selecting what fields to display and changing styling options.

It’s pretty easy to select required fields to be used for the search in the plugin settings.

The main purpose of Smart plugin is to improve the user search experience for any WordPress based website.

Also Smart Search could be integrated into default WordPress search widget to be used on any website, and by doing that the plugin expands the default search widget and overwrite the default WordPress search result.

And at last you could create a custom Smart Search widget and add it to any page through the shortcode or add it to a sidebar.

Give it a try and enjoy:)

= Features =

 * Customization settings
 * Custom Widget and shortcode
 * Settings to select fields and post types (product, post, page) to search through
 * Simple integration into default search widgets
 * Search by product SKU
 * Search through product Categories
 * Search through product Tags
 * Fuzzy search
 * Translation ready
 * Visual Composer compatible
 * WPML compatible
 * Search results with images and prices

[View plugin Demo](https://yummywp.com/plugins/smart-woocommerce-search/).

[Plugin Documentation](https://yummywp.com/docs/smart-search/).

== Installation ==

1. Unzip the downloaded .zip file.
2. Upload the plugin folder into the `wp-content/plugins/` directory of your WordPress site.
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
4. Use the Smart Search screen (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-search) to configure the plugin

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Is it compatible with my WordPress themes? =

Plugin not tested with all themes, but it easily integrated in any theme, and may be require some styling to make it match nicely.

= How to manage plugin settings? =

Please read a [documentation](http://yummywp.com/docs/smart-search/).

= Is there a way to show the ‘shop search output’ from WooCommerce, for example 3 items per row? =

Yes, when using products search or when you set option to search only through products in default or in custom search widget (shortcode) the search page displays WooCommerce product layout.

== Screenshots ==

1. Smart WooCommerce Search Custom Widget
2. Smart WooCommerce Search Settings Page - General tab
3. Smart WooCommerce Search Settings Page - Items to Search through tab
4. Smart WooCommerce Search Settings Page - Styling tab

== Changelog ==

= 1.4.5 =
* Fixed View All Button link
* Fixed Search results page output

= 1.4.4 =
* Speed optimizations
* Fixed form submitting link

= 1.4.3 =
* Added option - Exclude "Out of stock" products from results
* Under the hood improvements

= 1.4.2 =
* Fixed fuzzy search
* Fixed issue with '/' in search text

= 1.4.1 =
* Fixed syntax error for php version less than 5.4

= 1.4.0 =
* Added option "Fuzzy search (multiple word search)"
* Under the hood improvements

= 1.3.0 =
* Added option "Enable search through Variable Product Variations"
* Added option "Accent Words on Search Page"
* Under the hood improvements

= 1.2.3 =
* Fixed issue with a border in "No results" block

= 1.2.2 =
* Fixed issue with a special characters like "őűóíúéá"
* Fixed issue with a multibyte strings

= 1.2.1 =
* Fixed WooCommerce 3.0 compatibility issue, when new products didn't shows up in the search results
* Small improvements

= 1.2.0 =
* Added option to display a product SKU in the results popup
* Added option to restrict the product searching by selected categories
* Added option to set custom widget input border width
* Small improvements

= 1.1.3 =
* Prevent redirecting to the Search results page when a customer presses Enter and the number of typed characters less then characters number set in the plugin settings
* Fixed popup content scrolling by mouse wheel (Windows OS browsers)

= 1.1.2 =
* Fixed searching by sku
* Fixed css cross browser issues

= 1.1.1 =

* Fixed issue with fonts (fontello) conflict

= 1.1.0 =

* Changed search results page output - when using products search or when you set option to search only through products in default or in custom search widget (shortcode) the search page displays WooCommerce product layout
* Added option ("Display default search output on search results page") to disable plugin filter that overrides default WordPress or WooCommerce search query

= 1.0.0 =

* Initial release
