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The battle for attention on the internet is tough. The average visitor spends 47 seconds per page, and the bounce rate for websites falls somewhere between 39 – 72%, according to Contentsquare. People not being able to find what they are looking for is the leading cause of this abandonment. Businesses that fail to hook their customers within […]

With over 30,000 websites, SearchWP is the leading WordPress search plugin on the market. Today, I’m extremely excited to share that SearchWP is joining the Awesome Motive family. Jon Christopher (founder of SearchWP) has done a phenomenal job in building the most advanced WordPress search plugin in the market. Started in 2013, SearchWP is one […]

In continuing the trend of making information about SearchWP 4 available, there are a couple of major things to outline in this post: Custom content support Proper Multisite global search These two changes have been a very popular feature request leading up to the release of SearchWP 4, it’s very exciting to announce their availability! […]

Version 4.0 of SearchWP is getting closer and closer! ? In preparation of the release there are some exciting updates to share. In this post we’ll cover the initial performance benchmarks that have been run to date. SearchWP’s primary operations are indexing and searching so those are the two benchmarks discussed in this post. Index […]

SearchWP was first released in August of 2013. It’s come a long way since then! Not only has SearchWP itself as a product matured and grown, I’ve learned a ton since writing that first version. Without waxing poetic about things of the past, I’m very excited to be able to share some preliminary information about […]

SearchWP’s Metrics Extension has been updated to version 1.0.9 and is a recommended update for all Metrics users. Here is the full changelog: [New] Added additional parameters hits_min, hits_max when retrieving popular search queries over time [Fix] Relocates hooks to make them more accessible to plugins [Fix] False positive when preventing duplicate click tracking

A new Extension has been released: Custom Results Order! This extension was designed and built to help you manually curate results generated by SearchWP. Why is it necessary? If SearchWP was originally built to return the most relevant results, why is this Extension necessary at all? SearchWP does return the most relevant results it can […]

Version 1.0.3 of Metrics has been released. It is primarily a performance release and is recommended to all Metrics users. Full changelog: [Improvement] Improves performance when generating Insights [New] Settings button now has its own capability [New] New filter searchwp_metrics_capability_settings to modify the Settings button capability Enjoy!

Redirects has been updated to version 1.1, it now sorts your redirects in alphabetical order after saving. This will make management of the Redirects themselves a bit easier.