Jetpack Search — WordPress Site Search Plugin

Jetpack Search is listed among the Jetpack plugins for WordPress, described by Jetpack as a way to help visitors find what they need. Jetpack provides security, performance and growth tools for WordPress sites, and also offers individual plugins so site owners can install only the features they want. On the Jetpack homepage, Search appears within the site speed and user-experience group of tools, positioned as a way to help lost visitors find what they are looking for.

• Individual Jetpack plugin for WordPress
• Helps visitors find content on a site
• Grouped with Jetpack's speed and SEO tools

Jetpack Search 3.0 introduces two new ways for visitors to search a site: an Embedded experience and a blocks-powered Overlay. The release is announced on the Jetpack Resources page in an article by Jasper Kang. No further configuration details are given in the source material.

• Embedded search experience
• Blocks-powered Overlay search experience

Jetpack has announced Site Chat, a feature powered by Jetpack Search. According to the Resources page, Reader Chat gives visitors a new way to explore a site, letting readers ask questions and get answers based on the site's own content. The announcement is published by the Jetpack Team.

• Site Chat built on Jetpack Search
• Visitors ask questions and receive answers from site content

Jetpack Search is available through Jetpack for self-hosted WordPress sites. Jetpack installs like any other WordPress plugin, and some hosting providers auto-install it with WordPress; after installation, the plugin prompts a connection to a WordPress.com account, which can be created during the process. Sites hosted on WordPress.com already have Jetpack and its features built in. Jetpack has many free features, while advanced features such as backups, malware scanning and site search are included in the paid plans.

• For self-hosted WordPress sites
• Requires connection to a WordPress.com account
• Site search included with paid Jetpack plans
• Built in for WordPress.com-hosted sites

Jetpack Search sits alongside other Jetpack plugins covering backups, performance, security, publishing and customer management. Jetpack states that the heavy lifting runs on its cloud rather than the site's own server, and that site owners can turn on only the features they need. A free Jetpack mobile app for iOS and Android allows site management, including notifications, activity monitoring, backup restores, malware scans and stats.

• Jetpack VaultPress Backup — real-time backups and one-click restores
• Jetpack Boost — site speed and SEO
• Jetpack Protect and Jetpack Scan — security threats
• Jetpack Social — publish to multiple networks
• Jetpack VideoPress — ad-free video
• Jetpack CRM — customer management
• Jetpack Akismet Anti-spam — comment and form spam
• Jetpack Stats — audience data