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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

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 […]

SearchWP’s Related Extension has just been updated to version 1.3 and is now available to all active license holders. This is primarily a bug fix and optimization release but it also includes a new feature that allows you to specify individual entries you’d like to force to include for specific entries: This allows you to […]

One of SearchWP’s most popular Extensions, Live Ajax Search, has been updated to version 1.4. This update is available to all users as this Extension has been made publicly available on wordpress.org for anyone using WordPress ? In this update the live requests are better optimized (and cancelled when applicable) and updates some accessibility features […]

Version 1.3 of Redirects has been made available to all Pro and Pro Plus license holders. Updates include: Redirects are now sortable You can now import/export your Redirects Fixes an issue that prevented saving an empty list of Redirects Updated the updater!

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