🚀 Getting Started And Installing The Plugin

ResultsAiX Search & Member Activity gives your visitors an instant, Google style search bar. They start typing and matching pages drop down straight away, with pictures, short descriptions and no page reload.

The same plugin also shows you what your signed in members read and search for, and can show each member a pick up where you left off list. This guide gets the search bar live on your site. Everything after it is fine tuning.

What you need:

• A WordPress site you can log in to as an administrator
• The plugin zip file from your download area
• Your licence key, which starts with AISEARCH and was emailed to you after you bought

Install the plugin:

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins, then Add New Plugin, then Upload Plugin.
2. Click Choose File, pick the results-ai-search zip file and click Install Now.
3. Click Activate Plugin.

A new menu called AiX Search appears in your WordPress sidebar with a magnifying glass icon.

Step 1, activate your key:

Click AiX Search. The first screen is called Activate Your License. Paste your key into the box and click Activate. The full menu appears straight away. See Activating Your License for every detail.

What you see after activating:

The Dashboard shows four numbers: Items Indexed, Content Sources On, Excluded Items and Last Rebuilt. Below them is a Live Preview of your real search bar, so you can try it without leaving the admin.

Across the top runs a row of tabs. On a PRO key you get all of these:

• Dashboard: your index at a glance and the live preview
• Member Activity: what your signed in members read
• Insights PRO AI: click rates, the AI Analyst Report, Ask AI Anything and Member Reports
• AI Tools: the AI Listings Writer and AI Synonym Suggestions
• Insights: what people search for and what they cannot find
• Sources & Listings: what is searchable, plus the picture and description of each item
• Add Search Bar: the shortcode, every option and a preview
• Builder: the Shortcode Builder
• Settings: your licence, search behaviour, spotlight, the results page, colours, plus the PRO Settings and Rules sections
• Offers and Leads: search-triggered offers and the people captured when a search found nothing
• Diagnostics, Training, Resources and Hub

On a Core key the PRO tabs are not shown, and a Get PRO tab lists what PRO adds. See Core And PRO In One Plugin.

Step 2, choose what people can find:

1. Click Sources & Listings.
2. Under Content Sources, switch on each content type people should find, such as Posts and Pages.
3. Click Save & Re-Index. The plugin saves your choice and builds the search index for you.

Step 3, make a proper results page:

1. Click Settings and scroll to the See All Results Page box.
2. Click Create The Page For Me.

The plugin publishes a page called Search with the results shortcode on it and selects it. From then on the See all results link and the Enter key send visitors to that page instead of your theme's plain search page.

Step 4, place the search bar:

Put this shortcode on any page, post or widget:

• [results_ai_search]

You can also add the ResultsAiX Search block in the block editor, or the ResultsAiX Search widget in a classic sidebar. See Adding The Search Bar To Your Site.

A real example:

The demo site in these guides is The Home Bakery Club at yoursite.com, a baking membership with recipes, courses and live bake-alongs. Its owner switched on Posts and Pages, renamed the group headings to Recipes & Guides and Courses & Pages, created the results page and put the shortcode on a page called Find A Recipe. Visitors who type sourdough now see the Sourdough Masterclass, the feeding guide and the first loaf recipe before they finish the word.

Tips:

• Switch on Spotlight Search in Settings so visitors can search from any page with Ctrl+K or Cmd+K. See Spotlight Search.
• Check the Insights tab after a week. It shows what people search for and what they could not find.
• Read Choosing What Appears In Search next, to set priorities and group labels.