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Business Search Manager

A powerful WordPress search management platform with configurable indexing, deterministic ranking, behavioral relevance, autocomplete, search analytics, synonym intent buckets, curated results, and customizable front-end presentation.

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WHAT IT DOES

Built around the workflow, not the workaround.

BSM Business Search Manager

Powerful WordPress Search. Built Around Your Business.

Your website has valuable content. Make it easier for visitors to find it.

BSM Business Search Manager gives you control over how your WordPress site discovers, indexes, ranks, and displays search results. From pages and posts to PDF documents and specialized content, BSM Search helps visitors get to the information they need without forcing your business into a one-size-fits-all search experience.

Search That Works the Way Your Website Works

Standard WordPress search does not always reflect which content matters most to your visitors. BSM Search gives you the tools to shape the experience: prioritize important content, connect related search terms, direct visitors to the right destination, and customize how results appear.

Whether your website supports a business, membership organization, educational institution, or content-rich publication, BSM Search helps turn search into a more useful path through your site.

Find More Than Pages and Posts

Give visitors access to the content that makes your website valuable. BSM Search supports WordPress pages and posts, with additional indexing options for media and PDF documents. Pro expands search capabilities for sites with specialized content and document libraries.

Search Inside PDF Documents

Make information within text-based PDFs discoverable—not just their filenames or titles. With Pro, BSM Search extracts document text and makes it available through your site's unified search results.

PDF extraction runs separately from the main WordPress index, with its own processing queue, document statuses, and diagnostic log. This helps administrators manage document indexing without requiring every PDF to be reparsed during a routine content-index rebuild.

PDF text extraction applies to documents containing extractable text. Scanned or image-only PDFs require OCR, which is not included.

Put Relevant Results First

Not every page should have the same priority. BSM Search gives you controls for weighting content, promoting important results, and shaping how visitors move from a search query to the right destination.

  • Content weighting: Adjust the relative importance of searchable content.
  • Pinned results: Promote selected content for relevant searches.
  • Search redirects: Send visitors directly to a designated destination for specific queries.
  • Synonyms and intent buckets: Connect related terms and guide searches toward relevant content.
  • Behavioral relevance: Use search interactions to inform result relevance.

A Search Experience That Fits Your Site

Help visitors find what they need with autocomplete, configurable search forms, and customizable result displays. BSM Search gives site administrators control over the presentation of search without requiring visitors to learn a new interface.

For more specialized experiences, Pro adds customized rules that can hide matching results or group related results into expandable stacks—for example, presenting multiple related event or product URLs together rather than as repetitive individual listings.

Indexing You Can Manage

Keep your search content current with indexing controls, scheduled updates, and manual rebuild options. Select the content sources you want to include and manage PDF documents independently from image attachments.

For PDF text extraction, administrators can review processing status, inspect per-document diagnostics, and test individual documents. This makes it easier to identify documents that contain searchable text and investigate those that cannot be extracted.

Start Free. Expand with Pro.

BSM Search provides a foundation for improving WordPress search, with Pro capabilities available for sites that need broader content coverage and more advanced search controls.

BSM Search Free

  • Search WordPress pages and posts.
  • Configure search presentation and relevance controls.
  • Use content weighting, behavioral relevance, and supported search-management tools.
  • Index selected media metadata, including PDF metadata, without requiring PDF text extraction.

BSM Search Pro

  • Index supported custom post types.
  • Extract and search text within text-based PDF documents.
  • Manage PDF extraction through a dedicated processing queue and diagnostics dashboard.
  • Use customized result rules to hide or group matching search results.

Make Your Content Easier to Discover

Your website's search should help visitors reach useful information—not leave valuable content buried.

Take control of your WordPress search experience with BSM Business Search Manager.

Download BSM Search and explore the features that fit your website.

CAPABILITIES

Purpose-built for real operations.

Take control of WordPress search.

BSM Business Search Manager replaces basic WordPress search with a configurable search platform designed for organizations where finding the right content matters.

Choose exactly which post types and content are searchable, control their ranking, create synonym and intent groups, pin important content, analyze what visitors search for, and allow BSM to improve relevance based on actual user engagement.

BSM uses its own optimized search index while giving administrators direct control over business priorities. Content ranking can combine textual relevance, administrator-defined weighting, curated results, and behavioral signals without allowing automated learning to override explicit editorial decisions.

The result is faster, more relevant, and more manageable WordPress search—without requiring an external hosted search service.

Feature highlights

  • Dedicated optimized WordPress search index
  • Select exactly which public post types and Pages are indexed
  • Published-content and hidden-content controls
  • Configurable post-type/admin ranking
  • Behavioral relevance based on search-result engagement
  • Standard and Diversity of Results ranking modes
  • Autocomplete with configurable suggestion behavior
  • Synonym and Search Intent Buckets
  • Canonical and expanded synonym searching
  • Up to 10 ordered admin override results per intent
  • Searchable WordPress content selectors for curated results
  • Pins and redirects
  • Search analytics, zero-result reporting and click analytics
  • Configurable result cards and pagination
  • Thumbnail, excerpt and URL display controls
  • Query-term highlighting
  • Entire result cards can be clickable
  • Same-window or new-tab/window result behavior
  • Per-content-type display configuration
  • Divi 4 and Divi 5-aware content normalization architecture
  • Custom CSS and documented public CSS classes
  • Expert option to disable BSM's stylesheet completely
  • JSON/XML configuration import/export
  • Scheduled indexing, per-content-type Force Refresh and full index rebuild
  • REST and WP-CLI administration support
  • Friendly BSM search URLs and WordPress ?s= integration
  • Community/Pro licensing architecture
COMPATIBILITY

Requirements

Requires WordPress
6.4
Tested Through
7.1.3
Requires PHP
8.0
HELP & GUIDANCE

Resources

Documentation → Support →
RELEASE HISTORY

Changelog

0.3.18 — October 29, 2026

  • Fixed the PHP fatal error caused by a null package URL during WordPress updates.

  • Prevented the updater from advertising releases with missing or invalid download URLs.

0.3.10 — October 8, 2026

- Refreshes release metadata immediately before downloading a plugin update.
- Eliminates redundant package downloads during checksum verification.
- Verifies downloaded packages using SHA-256 before installation.
- Requires trusted HTTPS package URLs.
- Improves HTTP 403 download authorization diagnostics.
- Prevents installation when the update service does not report a newer version.
- Improves compatibility with BSM Plugin Release Manager package metadata.
- Preserves existing search, PDF indexing, licensing, and configuration functionality.

0.3.9 — October 6, 2026

• Fixed an updater issue that could cause WordPress to display the currently installed BSM Business Search Manager version as an available update.
• Added normalized local and remote version comparison.
• Updates are now offered only when the published version is newer than the installed version.
• Added protection against stale WordPress update-transient entries for equal or older BSM Search versions.
• Preserved BSM update API integration, update caching, manual update checks, and SHA-256 package verification.

0.3.8 — September 27, 2026

• Standardized BSM Search against the BSM Strategy commercial plugin licensing architecture.
• Added a centralized Free/Pro feature manifest as the authoritative capability registry.
• Changed unknown capabilities to fail closed as Pro.
• Removed legacy license-tier configuration as an entitlement authority.
• Standardized the license entitlement state machine.
• Added the 7-day validation-outage offline grace period.
• Added the second 7-day validation-outage warning period before Pro suspension.
• Preserved the separate 7-day post-expiration Pro grace period.
• Preserved immediate Pro suspension for authoritative license revocation.
• Preserved immediate Free fallback when a license is removed or deactivated.
• Aligned Pins, Redirects, Synonym/Intent Buckets, PDF indexing, Customized Rules, Analytics, Diversity Ranking, configuration import/export, external refresh, WP-CLI, and custom post types with explicit capability gates.
• Added server-side entitlement enforcement for Pro settings and administrative actions.
• Removed Free access to Pro-only external refresh credentials and configuration import/export controls.
• Made License the final BSM Search WordPress administration submenu.
• Preserved existing v0.3.7 PDF parser, PDF Index, search, indexing, and licensing API functionality.

0.3.7 — September 23, 2026

• Bundled Smalot PDF Parser directly within BSM Business Search Manager.
• Bundled the required Symfony mbstring polyfill dependency.
• Added a local autoloader for the packaged PDF extraction libraries.
• Removed the need for a separate server-side PDF parser installation.
• Included third-party license notices and upstream license files.
• Preserved the existing PDF Index dashboard, processing queue, logging, and Test Extraction functionality.
• Added an administrator-only PDF Processing Log with per-document and per-batch diagnostics.
• Added extraction method, file size, processing duration, character count, outcome, and error reporting.
• Added a Test Extraction action for individual PDF documents.
• Added filtering of processing logs by attachment ID and outcome.
• Added an administrator warning when the supported PDF parser is unavailable.
• Changed missing-parser handling to report an extraction failure instead of incorrectly classifying a document as having no extractable text.
• Preserved existing PDF index records and the separate background processing queue.

0.3.5 — September 23, 2026

• Improved Last API Error reporting to show successful requests and unresolved failures.
• Added licensing server error codes and messages to failure diagnostics where available.
• Updated Last License Response to display meaningful results after successful and failed requests.
• Added an expandable, administrator-only License API Diagnostics section.
• Added last request type, timestamp, HTTP response code, server status, server message, and error code.
• Added activation-ID presence and last successful validation timestamps to diagnostics.
• Displayed diagnostic timestamps using the WordPress site's configured timezone.
• Cleared active API errors after a subsequent successful request.
• Preserved existing license credentials, validation scheduling, and Pro enforcement rules.

0.3.4 — September 23, 2026

• Corrected license validation requests to include the stored activation ID.
• Corrected license deactivation requests to include the stored activation ID.
• Preserved the installation ID across licensing operations and plugin updates.
• Improved activation credential persistence and failed-activation handling.
• Corrected license response handling so HTTP success does not imply a valid license.
• Distinguished explicit license rejection from temporary licensing-service failures.
• Preserved activation credentials following temporary validation failures.
• Added saved-key reactivation for installations missing an activation ID.
• Preserved immediate Pro lockout for authoritative license revocation.
• Added administrator-visible license validation and API error diagnostics.

0.3.3 — September 22, 2026

• Added a dedicated PDF Index dashboard with document-level extraction status and error reporting.
• Added an independent, resumable background queue for PDF text extraction.
• Added Start, Pause, Resume, Stop, Retry Failed, and Rebuild PDF Index controls.
• Added configurable PDF batch size, maximum file size, and extracted-text limits.
• Added individual PDF reindexing.
• Reused extracted text for unchanged PDF files.
• Removed PDF text extraction from normal content-index rebuilds.
• Retained unified public search results for PDF documents and other indexed content.

0.3.2 — September 22, 2026

• Split Media Library indexing into independent PDF Documents and Images settings.
• Added separate switches to include PDF attachments and image attachments in search results.
• Enabled PDF metadata indexing without requiring image indexing.
• Retained Pro-only extraction and indexing of text within PDF documents.
• Preserved existing Media indexing preferences during upgrade.
• Updated attachment eligibility checks to respect the individual PDF and Image settings.
• Updated full index rebuild behavior to remove attachments that are no longer selected.

0.3.1 — September 22, 2026

• Added Customized Rules management for BSM Search Pro.
• Added result-level matching against URLs, titles, excerpts, and post types.
• Added exact, starts-with, ends-with, contains, wildcard, and regular-expression matching.
• Added rules to hide matching search results.
• Added expandable result stacks grouped by a regular-expression capture value.
• Added support for grouping ticketing performances by their shared production code.
• Kept single matching results as standard search cards.
• Added rule enable/disable controls, priority, editing, and deletion.
• Preserved saved Customized Rules when a Pro entitlement is unavailable.

0.2.6 — September 18, 2026

• Added additional Save buttons throughout the Settings screen for easier administration of long configuration pages.
• Fixed HTML entities appearing as encoded text in autocomplete suggestions.
• Added a Target Content selector to Synonym Buckets using the same published-content autocomplete interface as Pins.
• Synonym Bucket target content is promoted as the first preferred result when a matching synonym is searched.
• Added Edit functionality for existing Pins and Redirects.
• Added Edit functionality for existing Synonym Buckets.
• Bucket editing now supports updating terms, target content, behavior, canonical term, additional override results, and priority.
• Pin and Redirect editing now supports updating search terms, match behavior, action, target content, target URL, and priority.

0.2.7 — September 18, 2026

• Added front-end visual-builder compatibility handling to prevent BSM from interfering with page editing.
• Prevented search redirects, automatic result injection, search assets, and attribution output during Divi Visual Builder sessions.
• BSM search shortcodes now render lightweight editor placeholders instead of executing live search behavior while the Visual Builder is active.
• Expanded Visual Builder detection to cover front-end builder flags, builder state, request URLs, and builder AJAX requests.
• Added a compatibility filter for extending builder/editor detection.

0.2.4 — September 15, 2026

• Added Search Form Display settings for configuring the search input and button appearance.
• Added controls for input height, typography, padding, borders, radius, background, text, and border colors.
• Added controls for button typography, padding, borders, radius, background, text, border, and hover colors.
• Added configurable spacing between the search input and Search button.
• Added configurable spacing between the search form, result count, and search results.
• Reduced the default search form-to-result-count spacing to 16px and result-count-to-results spacing to 20px for a more unified search interface.
• Added an option to stack the Search button below the input on mobile devices.
• Added public CSS variables for search form styling and spacing.

0.2.3 — September 15, 2026

• Added optional Diversity of Results ranking to spread similar results while retaining all matching content.
• Improved Search page rendering so explicitly placed BSM search forms take precedence over automatic form injection.
• Fixed duplicate search forms when BSM search forms are rendered through page builders or other dynamic content.
• Simplified Search Attribution settings and removed internal product-development language from administrator-facing screens.
• Improved administrator-facing documentation and interface copy.

0.2.2 — September 15, 2026

• Added WordPress-native update notifications and one-click update support.

0.2.1 — September 15, 2026

Initial public release of BSM Business Search Manager.

• Dedicated WordPress search index with configurable scheduled and manual refresh.
• Select which public post types and individual Pages are included in search.
• Configurable administrator ranking weights and content priorities.
• Search relevance combines textual matching, administrator priorities, curated results, and behavioral learning.
• Optional Diversity of Results ranking mode helps spread similar results while retaining all matching content.
• Configurable search autocomplete.
• Synonym and Search Intent Buckets with expanded and canonical search behavior.
• Up to 10 ordered administrator override results per Search Intent Bucket.
• Searchable WordPress content selectors for curated results.
• Search-result pins and redirects.
• Search analytics including popular searches, zero-result searches, click activity, and engagement.
• Configurable result presentation including thumbnails, excerpts, destination URLs, pagination, result counts, and query highlighting.
• Configurable result content order and same-window or new-tab/window navigation.
• Entire search-result cards can be clickable.
• Content normalization for cleaner indexing of page-builder and structured WordPress content.
• Custom CSS support with documented public CSS classes and CSS variables.
• Expert option to disable BSM's default public stylesheet.
• JSON and XML configuration import/export.
• WordPress search integration, friendly search URLs, REST administration, and WP-CLI support.
• Community edition with architecture for future BSM Pro capabilities.

0.2.3 — September 15, 2026

• Search display bug fix

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