Safari extension for URL search shortcuts e.g. "wp ___" for wikipedia?

There's a feature that Firefox supports and which Saft used to be able to add to Safari, where I can type a shortcut code into the URL bar followed by search terms, and that would get expanded to perform a search on a target web site. For instance, I could type "wp apple" into the URL bar, and I'd get taken to the wikipedia page about apples.
Now that Saft is (probably) dead, I was wondering if there was some other extension I could install.
The problem is that I don't know what these kinds of shortcuts are called, or else I'd have probably found it myself by now.
Thanks for any help

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