APSearch — Arabic & Persian Search Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
WordPress search fails on Arabic-script languages, and it fails silently. A visitor searches کتابها and gets nothing, because the post says کتابها with a zero-width non-joiner. Someone types كتاب with an Arabic Kaf while the content uses the Persian ک. A product title carries diacritics; the query does not. Every one of these is a lost search, a lost reader, and in a shop, a lost sale.
This plugin fixes it by keeping a normalized copy of your searchable text and matching queries against that copy.
What it normalizes
- Yeh family: ي, ى, ئ, ے, ې ی
- Kaf family: ك, ڪ ک
- Alef family: أ, إ, آ, ٱ ا
- Heh family: ة, ۀ, ہ, ھ ه
- Diacritics (harakat), Quranic marks and kashida/tatweel are ignored
- Arabic-Indic (٠-٩) and Extended Arabic-Indic (۰-۹) digits become 0-9
- Zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ / نیمفاصله) and other invisible marks are ignored
- Punctuation and repeated whitespace are ignored
Works with
- The built-in search form and search results page
- Any theme or block that runs a WP_Query search
- WooCommerce product search (enable the
productpost type in settings) - WP-CLI:
wp apsearch reindex,wp apsearch status,wp apsearch normalize "متن"
Privacy
The plugin sends nothing anywhere. It stores one normalized text field per post in your own database.
Screenshots
Settings screen with index status.
Normalization rules.
The normalization test tool.
