# Requirements - Searchline 1.x documentation

> What Searchline needs to run, where it keeps its data, and what it works alongside.

## Server and WordPress

| | Minimum |
|---|---|
| WordPress | 6.5 |
| PHP | 7.4 (8.1 or later recommended) |
| WooCommerce | 8.2 |
| Database | MySQL or MariaDB, as WordPress needs |

## Where Searchline keeps its data

- **Its own tables** for the search index and the search report. The index is built from your content and can be rebuilt at any time (see [The index](the-index)).
- **Options** for the settings, synonyms, redirects and license.
- **One custom field** on products, pages and posts you hide from search results.

Apart from that one field, your products, pages and posts are never changed.

## Themes and editors

- **Block themes** (such as Twenty Twenty-Five): the search template, the Search block, the Product Collection and Query Loop blocks and the Product Filters blocks all show Searchline's results.
- **Classic themes** (such as Storefront): the theme's search page and WooCommerce's product search show Searchline's results.
- **Elementor**: the Searchline search widget (free Elementor is enough). **Other page builders**: use the `[searchline]` shortcode for a search box with the dropdown (see [Live search](live-search)).

## Works alongside

- **High-Performance Order Storage** and the older posts storage, and **the Cart and Checkout blocks**: Searchline doesn't touch orders or the checkout.
- **Multisite**: each site has its own index, settings and search report. Network activation sets up every site; a site added later builds its index on its first visit.
- **ACF, Meta Box and Pods**: their text fields are offered on the Settings tab.
- **Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO**: their SEO titles, descriptions and focus keywords can be searched.
- **Fileline**: its downloads are searched, with their categories and tags, while Fileline is active.
- **Optionline**: its option labels and choices can be searched.
- **Labelline**: its labels show as badges on products in the dropdown.
- **Plugins that hide content from some visitors**, such as Roleline Pro: their rules still apply to search results, so a visitor only finds what they may see.

## Caching

Pages with a search box can be cached: the dropdown asks the server for results as visitors type, and those answers are never cached by the browser. On sites with a persistent object cache, Searchline keeps logged-out visitors' result lists there for two minutes; prices and stock are always fresh.

## Translations

Searchline is ready for translation. The template is included as `languages/searchline.pot`, for tools such as Poedit or Loco Translate.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/searchline/docs/1.x/requirements