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We also invite you to consult the sections of this guide on product and category meta tags, to better understand how to display products based on words typed by your customers. See the "Adding Products and Product Categories" and "A Look inside the Catalog" chapters.
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Indexing
This section provides information on the number of products that can be searched through your shop's search function, and compares it to the number of products present in the database.
If the values do not match, you must select click the "Add missing products to the index" optionlink. Only the new products will be indexed.
If you have made several changes to already indexed products, you might prefer to choose to re-build the whole index. The "Re-build entire index" process takes more time, but it is more thorough.
PrestaShop also gives you the URL to let you create a cron task for regular re-building of the index. If you do not know about cron and crontab, ask your web host about it.
Finally, the "IndexationIndexing" option enables you to have a product be indexed as soon as it is created/modified, thus rending the above links and cron link useless.
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This section enables you to configure the behavior of your shop's search function:
- Ajax search. Enabling it displays a list of 10 results from the moment your customers type a few letters into the search bar, right under the search bar.
- Instant search. Enabling it displays a list of results from the moment your customers type a few letters into the search bar, directly within your shop's main content area. This setting is disabled by default, because visitors are not always used to have their whole content changed just be entering a few letters in the shop's search bar. Therefore, use with caution.
- Search within word. This option improves search by allowing you to make queries that do not only match the start of the search word; for instance, "lou" for "blouse".
- Minimum word length. You can choose the minimum size at which a word may be registered in the search index and found by your customers. This feature allows you to eliminate short words in the search, such as prepositions or articles (the, and, of, etc.).
- Blacklisted words. You can choose the terms that must not be found by your visitors. Enter them directly into the field, separated by "|" ("pipe" character, not lowercase L). By default, PrestaShop fills the list with common short words.
Weight
PrestaShop enables you to prioritize certain data when a search is performed on your shop.
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