Hey @everyone,
If you run a HivePress site, you may have noticed the keyword search only really looks at listing titles and descriptions. It quietly skips a couple of places that often hold the exact keywords a user is searching for: the names and descriptions of Marketplace pricing tiers your vendors write, plus your listing category names and descriptions.
I’ve been playing around with AI again and built a small (single-file, free) plugin to fix that. It extends the native HivePress search so a keyword also matches:
- Pricing tier names and descriptions (for anyone on HivePress Marketplace with pricing tiers switched on)
- Listing category names and descriptions
- Sub-categories, so searching a broad category like “Grooming” also surfaces listings filed under its children like “Nail Clipping” or “Bathing”
Grab it here:
A few notes:
- Install and activate it alongside HivePress. The pricing tier matching also needs HivePress Marketplace with the “Allow sellers to set pricing tiers” option enabled in your HivePress settings.
- That’s it, nothing to configure. It hooks into the existing search form, so there are no template changes to make.
- On first activation it quietly indexes your existing listings in the background (spread across a few admin page loads), then keeps itself up to date whenever a listing is saved.
- It leaves the rest of your search alone and won’t throw up duplicate results when a listing sits in more than one category.
Warning: I built this with a lot of AI help and it’s working perfectly on my own site, but please test it on a staging copy before putting it live, just to be safe. If you hit any snags or have ideas, I’d love to hear them! 
I feel this could benefit the majority of HivePress-powered site owners, and think it could make another great addition to the core.
Cheers,
Chris 
