Seekmodo Search

Description

Seekmodo Search replaces the built-in WordPress site search (and the
WooCommerce product search, when WooCommerce is active) with an AI-powered
search experience served by the Seekmodo platform at mcp.seekmodo.com.
One plugin, two activatable verticals:

• Content vertical — WordPress core search via pre_get_posts +
  posts_pre_query. Auto-detects public Custom Post Types so blog posts,
  pages, docs, and your custom CPTs all participate in the same ranked
  result set.
• Commerce vertical — WooCommerce product search via
  woocommerce_product_query + posts_search. Indexes products plus
  variations, stock state, price, SKU, and attributes. Auto-on when
  WooCommerce is detected; dormant otherwise.

What you get:

• AI search out of the box — vector recall + commerce-aware reranking
  on top of Typesense, with no relevance tuning required to start.
• Typo tolerance, partial-word matching, and prefix-matched typeahead
  via a single REST endpoint your theme can hit from any autocomplete
  widget.
• Click-through telemetry feeds a self-tuning learn-to-rank pipeline.
  Relevance gets better as your shoppers interact.
• Always-on safety net — every gateway-talking entry point falls
  through to native WP_Query (or WC_Query for products) inside the
  same request when the platform is unreachable. Visitors never see an
  empty results page. A per-tenant circuit breaker prevents repeated
  timeouts from compounding.
• Multi-environment safe — Seekmodo locks each tenant to a canonical
  storefront host. Staging / dev clones are auto-detected and return
  no-op from every gateway entry, so your production index is never
  polluted by a non-production deploy.
• Settings tunable remotely — flip search mode, adjust ranking knobs,
  and toggle the “Powered by Seekmodo” badge from
  https://admin.seekmodo.com; the connector picks the change up on
  the next 5-min cadence.

External service dependency. Seekmodo Search is the WordPress
connector for the Seekmodo AI search platform. The platform is a
hosted service operated by Numinix Technology Inc. at
https://mcp.seekmodo.com and https://admin.seekmodo.com. The
plugin connects your site to a Seekmodo tenant via an HMAC-signed
pairing flow; once paired, the plugin sends indexable post / product
data to mcp.seekmodo.com and queries it for search results, typeahead
suggestions, and click telemetry.

Free trial. Every Seekmodo plan ships with a 14-day free trial at
$0 — full features, unlimited searches, no card required upfront.
Cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing. After the trial, plans
start at $29/month. Pricing details, including how the plan auto-sizes
to your real traffic during the trial: https://seekmodo.com/pricing.

What happens if you stop paying. The plugin does not break your
site. If the gateway is unreachable, your subscription lapses, or
you simply uninstall the plugin, every search entry point falls back
to native WordPress / WooCommerce search inside the same request. No
white screens, no fatal errors, no broken search box.

Privacy + data handling.
https://seekmodo.com/legal/privacy lays out the full picture, but
in short: searchable post / product content you choose to index is
sent to mcp.seekmodo.com; visitor search queries and clicks are sent
to mcp.seekmodo.com as telemetry; no personal data about your
visitors leaves your site unless you opt in to additional
analytics integrations from the Seekmodo admin. The plugin
self-checks for stale indexes, configuration drift, and update
availability — all such phone-home requests are vanilla HTTPS GETs
that carry no tenant ID and no site-identifying data; they’re
static-cacheable from our perspective.

Technical details