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Do you want to add a search form to your shop page in WooCommerce? Adding a powerful search form to your shop page will help your site visitors navigate your store faster and get the results they’re looking for. You can easily get more sales and boost customer satisfaction this way. In this article, we’ll […]

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 […]

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 […]

Version 1.8.0 of Shortcodes has been released. There are three new Shortcodes available in this release! Full changelog: [New] New Shortcode searchwp_search_results_paginate_links for paginated links [New] New Shortcode searchwp_search_result_image for result Featured Image output [New] New Shortcode searchwp_search_result_permalink for result permalink output [Update] Updated updater

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

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 […]

Prior to version 3.1 of SearchWP (and also in Term Synonyms when it was a standalone Extension) Synonyms were handled differently than they are in version 3.1 and later. Previously, the implementation of Synonyms was a bit short sighted in that it assumed the source would be a single term. It turns out that there […]