Ivory Search Pro

Ivory Search Pro costs $99.99 once for 1 site. The annual plan costs $19.99 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 61 months.

Yes, if your WooCommerce customers search by SKU or variation, if visitors look for PDFs and other files, or if you need search forms that only cover part of the site. The lifetime license costs $99.99 once for 1 site, the yearly license $19.99, so the one-time price pays off after about 61 months. Updates: For life. Support: For life.

The plan makes the most sense for a site you will run for years, because every renewal you skip after the fifth year is money saved. If you only want an AJAX live search, a search form in the menu and synonyms, the free version already does that. Agencies should compare the tiers first: 1 site for $99.99, 5 sites for $179.99, 25 sites for $299.99. The money-back guarantee covers 30 days, but the vendor refunds only when a problem makes the plugin unusable and support cannot fix it, so test the free version on your theme before you buy.

The free Ivory Search on wordpress.org already does a lot: unlimited search forms, each with its own post types, categories, custom fields and exclusions, an AJAX live search, a search form in the navigation menu, the customizer for colours and styles, synonyms, stop words, fuzzy matching, search analytics and an inverted index for faster results. For a blog or a small company site that is often all you need.

Ivory Search Pro adds the filters that shops and document heavy sites miss. WooCommerce products become searchable by SKU and by variation, and out of stock products can disappear from the results. Forms can search or exclude posts by author, status and comment count, search only chosen file types such as PDFs, images or documents, use keyword stemming and order the results by relevance, title, date or other fields.

Most WordPress search plugins and WooCommerce product search tools renew every year. Ivory Search sells Ivory Search Pro on its own pricing page next to the yearly plans as a lifetime plan, paid once. Updates: For life. Support: For life. The tiers: 1 site for $99.99, 5 sites for $179.99, 25 sites for $299.99.

The search runs inside your own WordPress database, so no query leaves your server and there is no monthly fee per search. It works with WooCommerce, bbPress, TablePress shortcodes and the translation plugins WPML, Polylang and Weglot, so one form can cover a multilingual shop.

After the purchase you install the Pro plugin from your account and activate the license; forms and settings from the free version stay in place. Create a search form, choose the post types and fields it searches, add SKU search for WooCommerce products, switch on AJAX search and place the form in the menu or on a page by shortcode. Check the result list on a phone, because the look of the form depends on your theme. The price was checked on Oct 13, 2026 for the vendor pricing page.

Sites

1 site

Updates

For life

Support

For life

Money back guarantee

30 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

On the market since

2018

Active installs

90,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.9 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

5.5.19

Last update

Oct 2, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 13, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)

We note every change to the lifetime price we find on the vendor’s page. The history starts with our first check.