Panopticon – Your Own Search Engine is a powerful WordPress plugin/theme that turns your site into a private, fast, and customizable search engine. Index your content, PDFs, media, and external sources with precision. Provide blazing fast, privacy-first search with smart filters, synonyms, and AI-ready features. Perfect for documentation sites, knowledge bases, intranets, and content-heavy blogs.
- Build a private, branded search engine on WordPress
- Lightning-fast indexing and real-time search results
- Full-content indexing: posts, pages, custom post types, PDFs, and media
- Crawler for external sites and subdomains
- Advanced relevance ranking with tunable weights
- Faceted search: tags, categories, taxonomies, authors, dates
- Autocomplete, instant search, and typo tolerance
- Synonyms, stopwords, and stemming for better recall
- Multilingual support and language-specific analyzers
- Analytics dashboard: queries, zero-results, CTR, trends
- Privacy-first: self-hosted index, no third-party calls
- Headless API for custom front-ends and mobile apps
- Developer-friendly hooks, REST endpoints, and CLI tools
- Works with popular themes, Gutenberg, and major page builders
- Scales to millions of documents with background jobs
- Role-based search visibility and content restrictions
- AI-ready: embeddings and reranking integrations optional
