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A new Extension has just been made available to all active license holders: Co-Authors Plus Integration Co-Authors Plus is a plugin built and maintained by Automattic that allows you to define multiple Authors for your content. This extension will index and make searchable all multiple Authors. If you’re a fan of Co-Authors Plus and want to […]

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 […]

As of March 4, 2016 there will be a slight change to the purchase terms for SearchWP. Automatic renewals for license keys To date, SearchWP licenses expire on an annual basis. Notifications are sent out leading up to the expiration date and customers are given the option to renew their license for another year at […]

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 […]