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Do you want to change the default search URL in WordPress? When users perform a search, WordPress generates a URL that looks something like this: http://example.com/?s=search-term. Many website owners prefer to change the format as it is hard to read. You can improve the readability of your website’s search URL by changing the default slug […]

A recent episode of the Indie Hackers podcast, Fame, Focus, and Billions of Pageviews with Evan Britton of Famous Birthdays focused on the story behind a website called Famous Birthdays. The overview is in part as follows: Evan Britton runs a massive website focused on digital celebrities called Famous Birthdays. It gets multiple billions of […]

An effective on-site search solution has a direct impact on conversion rate in many cases. Check this out! https://twitter.com/alexdurston_ss/status/1328575981938991106 Alex followed up with a bit more detail: Hi, just reaching out following our tweets about e-commerce conversion based on user who do a site search vs those who don’t. We have a number of e-commerce […]

[Fix] Issue where tokens table was not reset during index rebuild

SearchWP version 2.7.1 is now available to all active license holders. This is a maintenance release that includes a number of bug fixes that will benefit all installations of SearchWP. Some underlying work has been done to the way stats are retrieved, it’s part of the groundwork being laid for an Advanced Metrics extension I’ve […]

Long time SearchWP customers are familiar with the limitation that while SearchWP itself offers automatic updates, Extensions don’t. This is unfortunate for a number of reasons as Extensions (like SearchWP core) receive periodic updates that include bug fixes and new features. Extension updates are admittedly sporadic, extensions are designed to be ultra-small modifications to the […]

As per the notice from a few months ago, the (old) support forums have been fully decommissioned. While they served a purpose for a while, the data rot was excessive and often provided more confusion than it did help. It also asked a lot of SearchWP customers such that in order to find an answer for your question […]

For the first year of it’s life SearchWP’s support process was based on a customer-only forum powered by bbPress. I really like bbPress as a support platform, and since it fits in with WordPress so well, it wasn’t difficult to ensure that only active SearchWP license holders (powered by Easy Digital Downloads’ Software Licensing) were […]

SearchWP debuted in August 2013 and since then has grown quite a bit. Customer feedback has been terrific and contributed in a significant way to the refinements put in place and features added over the past year. The plugin itself has matured a ton and I’m quite happy with the progress as well. Now that SearchWP as (more-or-less) proven […]