Better Search

It replaces the default search engine and supports templates.

Installation

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• Search for posts contextually with results sorted by relevance
• Automatically replaces your default WordPress search with Better Search results
• Display a list of popular search terms (daily and overall) on your blog in the form of a heatmap
• Choose between WordPress search and Better Search (coming soon)
• Support for a template file for perfect integration into your blog template
• Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the plugin from within WP-Admin
• Works with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache

What is new in this release:

• New:
• Profanity filter.
• Option to turn of the search results tracking. Ideal if you don't care about the popular search terms on your blog
• Option to include the thumbnails in the search results
• Modified:
• Search results now have better pagination. This is especially good when you have lots of search results - Thanks to J Norton for this feature
• Plugin should now return results even if the search word is less than 4 characters

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• Fixed:
• PHP notices.

What is new in version 1.3:

• Added:
• Links in the search heatmap are no-follow by default. You can turn this off in the Settings page
• Option to make make heatmap links to open in a new window
• Option to turn off the display of the heatmap on the results page
• New CSS classes for heatmaps on the search results page - heatmap_daily and heatmap_overall
• Fixed:
• Possible cross-site request forgery issue in the Settings page

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• Fixed:
• "Missing argument" error for heatmaps.

What is new in version 1.2:

• Updates for better search template compatibility. New template included in this release
• Quick links added in Plugins page in WP-Admin
• Relevance score is now displayed as a percentage
• Fixed: Daily search terms were not being cleared
• Modified: Default search colours for the heatmap are grey and black instead of blue and red

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.1 or higher