Site search your visitors will love.
WordPress native search fails for most complex sites. Winnow Search surfaces the pages and documents your visitors care about, and helps you show your best content.
- Pages and PDFs Both are first-class. No premium tier needed.
- Tolerant of typos For when the fingers were faster than the brain.
- About €0.50 per month For a small site. You pay for use, with hard caps.
At DoNoHarm, we've been providing premium site search for Squarespace since 2024. Now, we're bringing the same care to WordPress.
"The search functionality is spectacular and has made the user experience so much better."
"Your customer service and product are elite levels of awesome. You should be very proud."
Up and running in minutes.
No build step, no feed to maintain, no server to run. Read the setup guide →
- Install the plugin
Activate Winnow Search from the WordPress plugin directory. About a minute.
- Connect your site
Open Settings › Winnow Search, paste your Site ID, tick Enable.
- Search goes live
Winnow attaches to your existing search fields automatically. Visitors get instant, typo-tolerant results.
Everything your visitors can already see, just a lot faster.
- Pages and posts All publicly accessible content
- PDF documents Linked PDFs are indexed alongside your pages, not treated as second-class content.
- Custom post types If your visitors can reach the URL, Winnow can index it.
A quiet blog shouldn't pay like a busy publication.
It won't. You pay for the work the service does: pages kept searchable, pages crawled, and searches served. Hard caps before billing surprises.
Estimate your price- Small local site 30 pages, 100 searches About €0.50/month
- Growing site 250 pages, 1,000 searches About €2.25/month
- Active docs hub 2,000 pages, 10,000 searches About €20.00/month
- Large popular site 50,000 pages, 200,000 searches About €450/month
Winnow, Relevanssi, and SearchWP.
Relevanssi is excellent at keyword search inside WordPress. SearchWP is powerful and well-established. Winnow's angle is hosted crawl-and-index, with PDFs, analytics, and optional AI answers built in, and pricing tied to use.
| Winnow | Relevanssi | SearchWP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | From $6 / year | Free or $120 / year | From $99 per year |
| Setup | Plugin & Account | Plugin install | Plugin install |
| PDF search | Yes | Paid only | Yes |
| AI answers | Yes | No | No |
| Search analytics | Yes | Paid only | Pro-tier only ($199 / year) |
| Where the index lives | Winnow's servers | Your WordPress DB | Your WordPress DB |
Questions before adding search
- Do I need a WordPress plugin?
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We recommend it: Install the free Winnow Search plugin, paste your Site ID
in the plugin settings, and search is live automatically.
If you don't want to use the plugin, you can paste our script right into your theme or page builder.
- Is there a free tier?
- Every account starts with €5.00 of free credit. No card needed to try it.
- How is Winnow different from Relevanssi?
- Relevanssi improves keyword search inside WordPress. Winnow is hosted: it crawls your public site, indexes PDFs, shows analytics, and can add AI answers without running the index in your WordPress database.
- What if my site doesn't get much traffic?
- Minimum charge is about €0.50 per month. Low-traffic sites pay almost nothing.
- What if I'm on Squarespace?
- For Squarespace sites, we recommend Monocle Search. It's built for the specifics of Squarespace websites.
Takes five minutes. Starts free.