3.1.16

• [Update] Updated updater

3.1.15

• [Fix] Updates deprecated jQuery function

3.1.14

• [Fix] Character encoding issue in PDF parsing in some cases

3.1.13

• [Fix] Issue with PDF parsing in some cases
• [Update] Updated updater

3.1.12

• [Fix] Issue with partial match return values in some cases
• [Fix] Notice about Deprecated array syntax
• [Update] Dependencies

3.1.11

• [Fix] Issue with synonym partial matching not working as expected in some cases

3.1.10

• [Fix] Issue with supported post type attributes not appearing in all cases
• [Change] Template conflict detection is now opt-in
• [Update] Updated dependencies

3.1.9

• [Fix] Logic issue with one of the query limiters in some cases

3.1.8

• [New] searchwp_query_strict_limiters filter allowing you to opt out of some search query limiters
• [Change] Some private properties/methods have been made public

3.1.7

• [Fix] Issue with finding partial matches in some cases
• [Improvement] PHP 7.4 compatibility
• [Update] Adds class reference to some hooks
• [Update] Dependencies

3.1.6

• [Change] Default partial match minimum length updated to 3
• [Improvement] Handling of quoted searches when highlighting
• [Improvement] Integration with WordPress 5.3
• [Improvement] Exact matches given more weight when finding partial matches
• [Fix] SWP_Query quoted search handling in some cases

3.1.5

• [Improvement] Performance when considering document processing
• [Fix] Partial matches resource usage

3.1.4

• [Fix] Regression introduced when debugging is enabled and FS_METHOD = ftpext is imposed
• [Fix] Custom built admin searches not working as expected in some cases
• [Improvement] Search query performance
• [Improvement] Handling of AND logic when considering partial matches and synonyms
• [Improvement] Improve performance of partial match handling
• [Improvement] Prevention of redundant queries in some cases
• [New] New filter searchwp_th_excerpt_consider_comments to consider Comments when generating global excerpts if no highlight is found

3.1.3

• [Fix] Issue with tokenizing during searches in some cases
• [Fix] Fixes a regression in synonym processing introduced in 3.1
• [Fix] AND logic being too restrictive in some cases
• [Improvement] Performance improvement when performing searches

3.1.2

• [Fix] Indexer performance regression introduced in 3.1
• [Fix] Inaccurate notice displayed when searching in the admin in some cases

3.1.1

• [Fix] JavaScript error when adding Custom Fields to engines

3.1

• [Change] Partial term matching now requires PHP 5.4+
• [Change] Synonym handling has been improved, for full explanation see https://searchwp.com/?p=193232
• [New] Support (with caveats) for quoted/phrase/sentence searches, for more information see https://searchwp.com/?p=190759
• [New] Automatic “Did you mean” handling for misspelled searches, for more information see https://searchwp.com/?p=190545
• [New] Adds core support for keyword stemming for these language codes: EN, DA, NL, FR, DE, IT, NB, NN, PT, RO, RU, ES, SV (if you are using an Extension you can remove it)
• [New] New filter searchwp_query_collate_override to override table COLLATE
• [New] New filter searchwp_th_minimum_word_length to control highlighter minimum word length
• [New] New filter searchwp_persist_extra_metadata to control whether Extra Metadata is persisted (e.g. to support quoted searches for that data)
• [New] Detection for background indexer communication failure in some cases
• [Improvement] Global excerpts now implement WordPress’ excerpt_more output where applicable
• [Improvement] Partial match highlighting is more accurate
• [Improvement] JavaScript bundlers have been reconfigured and optimized
• [Fix] Account for AND logic refinement being too aggressive in some cases
• [Fix] Trigger index when scheduled posts are published
• [Fix] Delta updates when editing via Quick Edit
• [Fix] Better checks against index when evaluating partial matches
• [Fix] SWP_Query results are no longer incorrectly overridden with subsequent calls to SWP_Query->get_posts()
• [Fix] Highlighter partial match setting now defaults to core partial match setting
• [Fix] Warning when processing purge queue in some cases
• [Fix] Parent weight transfer for Media is no longer enabled by default
• [Fix] Global highlight functions are now initialized in a more accessible way
• [Fix] z-index problem when adding a Post Type to an engine
• [Fix] More consistent handling of internal metadata types
• [Fix] Prevent inapplicable post types from being considered for search when in the WordPress Dashboard
• [Fix] Take exclusive regex matches into consideration when tokenizing
• [Update] Translation source

3.0.7

• [Improvement] Handling of highlighter logic
• [Improvement] Highlighter excerpt generation
• [Improvement] Debug environment checks/messaging
• [Improvement] Provide feedback when synonyms are influenced by other tokenizer rules
• [Improvement] Index statistics calculation
• [Fix] Issue with multiple-word source terms for synonyms not being processed correctly in all cases
• [New] New filter searchwp_weight_mods_wrap_core_weights to support additional weight customizations
• [Update] Translation source
• [Update] Updated updater

3.0.6

• [New] When enabling Admin search hijacking you must now choose an engine to use for Admin searches
• [Change] Regex pattern matches are processed by min word length and stopword removal rules
• [New] New filter searchwp_apply_rules_to_whitelisted_terms controls whether rules (min word length, stopword removal) applies to whitelisted terms
• [Fix] Issue with partial matching when multiple searches are run for a single request
• [Fix] Prevent parent attribution when searching in the Admin (would result in false negatives)
• [Improvement] Partial match processing
• [Improvement] Handling of delta updates to reduce resource usage
• [Improvement] System Information is now more comprehensive
• [Update] Translation source

3.0.5

• [New] Pasting of comma separated Stopwords will create individual Stopwords from the list
• [Fix] Conditional disabling of partial matches per engine by using provided filter
• [Fix] Prevent missing exact matches when finding partial matches
• [Improvement] Post types that are excluded from search during registration are now listed out
• [Improvement] When Metrics is installed the engine configuration Search Statistics link is correct
• [Change] Enabling partial matches no longer gives exact matches full priority, short circuiting on exact matches is now opt in via filter
• [Change] Third party dependencies have been reorganized to reduce file path which should help to avoid issues on certain Windows servers
• [Update] Translation source
• [Update] PHP version compatibility
• [Update] Dependency update which brings additional PHP compatibility
• [Security] TCPDF security update (which as evaluated could NOT have been exploited)

3.0.4

• [Improvement] Handling of multiple word highlighting
• [Improvement] Better restriction during indexing
• [Fix] Issue with Advanced Custom Fields repeater detection
• [Fix] Better handling of cached data
• [Fix] Prevent unwanted indexer activity when using searchwp_indexed_post_types
• [Change] Removal of ACF field references is now opt-in
• [Change] searchwp_lenient_accents now applies during searches as well
• [New] Filter searchwp_lenient_accents_on_search to allow refined control over leinient accent treatment

3.0.3

• [Fix] Fixes an issue with checking for unused meta keys when configuring search engines
• [Fix] Fixes a potential issue with searchwp_short_circuit being incorrectly overridden
• [Fix] Fixes an issue with synonyms not working as expected

3.0.1

• [Fix] Fixes an issue that may prevent Custom Fields from appearing in engine configuration

3.0

• [New] Advanced Settings screen rebuilt and optimized
• [New] searchwp_legacy_advanced_settings filter controls whether the legacy Advanced Settings screen is used
• [New] Integrated stopword management on the Advanced Settings screen
• [New] Default stopwords for the following locales: CS, DA, DE, EN, ES, FI, GA, IT, NL, PL, PT, RO, RU, SV, TR
• [New] Suggested stopwords based on existing site content
• [New] Integrated Term Synonyms and improved management UI (extension is now deprecated)
• [New] Integrated Term Highlight (extension is now deprecated)
• [New] Integrated LIKE Terms and Fuzzy Matches (extensions are now deprecated)
• [New] Adds setting to parse Shortcodes during indexing (e.g. UI for searchwp_do_shortcodes)
• [New] SWP_Query now has the following methods: have_posts, rewind_posts, the_post, next_post allowing for a more traditional Loop
• [New] Custom Fields dropdown now supports meta groups
• [New] Automatic UI for “repeatable” field groups in Advanced Custom Fields
• [New] Statistics screen rebuilt and optimized
• [New] Management of ignored searches is now built in to the Stats screen
• [New] Resetting of statistics is now built in to the Stats screen
• [New] searchwp_statistics_popular_days_{$days} filter allows overriding of popular search queries
• [New] searchwp_legacy_stats filter controls whether the legacy Advanced Settings screen is used
• [New] searchwp_results_found_posts filter allows modification of SearchWP’s found posts
• [New] searchwp_results_max_num_pages filter allows modification of SearchWP’s maximum number of pages
• [New] Support for programmatic license management. See SearchWP_License class
• [New] Adds (dismiss-able) notice during admin searches when admin searches are not hijacked by SearchWP
• [New] Adds support for WordPress’ block editor during indexing (blocks will be parsed prior to indexing)
• [Fix] Adds support for results limiting when parent attribution is enabled
• [Fix] Better handling of emoji during indexing
• [Fix] Prevent pattern whitelist matches from being counted twice
• [Fix] Prevent data mutation when creating multiple supplemental engines at once
• [Change] Indexing emoji is now opt-in using the searchwp_index_emoji filter

3.0

• [New] Advanced Settings screen rebuilt and optimized
• [New] searchwp_legacy_advanced_settings filter controls whether the legacy Advanced Settings screen is used
• [New] Integrated stopword management on the Advanced Settings screen
• [New] Default stopwords for the following locales: CS, DA, DE, EN, ES, FI, GA, IT, NL, PL, PT, RO, RU, SV, TR
• [New] Suggested stopwords based on existing site content
• [New] Integrated Term Synonyms and improved management UI (extension is now deprecated)
• [New] Integrated Term Highlight (extension is now deprecated)
• [New] Integrated LIKE Terms and Fuzzy Matches (extensions are now deprecated)
• [New] Adds setting to parse Shortcodes during indexing (e.g. UI for searchwp_do_shortcodes)
• [New] SWP_Query now has the following methods: have_posts, rewind_posts, the_post, next_post allowing for a more traditional Loop
• [New] Custom Fields dropdown now supports meta groups
• [New] Automatic UI for “repeatable” field groups in Advanced Custom Fields
• [New] Statistics screen rebuilt and optimized
• [New] Management of ignored searches is now built in to the Stats screen
• [New] Resetting of statistics is now built in to the Stats screen
• [New] searchwp_statistics_popular_days_{$days} filter allows overriding of popular search queries
• [New] searchwp_legacy_stats filter controls whether the legacy Advanced Settings screen is used
• [New] searchwp_results_found_posts filter allows modification of SearchWP’s found posts
• [New] searchwp_results_max_num_pages filter allows modification of SearchWP’s maximum number of pages
• [New] Support for programmatic license management. See SearchWP_License class
• [New] Adds (dismiss-able) notice during admin searches when admin searches are not hijacked by SearchWP
• [New] Adds support for WordPress’ block editor during indexing (blocks will be parsed prior to indexing)
• [Fix] Adds support for results limiting when parent attribution is enabled
• [Fix] Better handling of emoji during indexing
• [Fix] Prevent pattern whitelist matches from being counted twice
• [Fix] Prevent data mutation when creating multiple supplemental engines at once
• [Change] Indexing emoji is now opt-in using the searchwp_index_emoji filter

2.9.17

• [Improvement] Better handling of post status and comment triggers of delta updates, reducing significant overhead in some cases

2.9.16

• [Fix] Fixes an issue that prevented proper respect of searchwp_background_deltas
• [Fix] Fixes an issue with debug log permissions in some cases
• [Fix] Fixes an issue where Custom Field keys were not accurately retrieved in older versions of WordPress
• [Fix] Fixes settings screen JavaScript error in IE11
• [Fix] Fixes an issue preventing the application of searchwp_search_query_order
• [Improvement] Notes the requirement that the index must be rebuilt after ticking checkbox to remove minimum character count
• [New] Adds post_status parameter to SWP_Query
• [New] Adds order parameter to SWP_Query
• [New] Adds limited orderby parameter to SWP_Query

2.9.15

• [Fix] Fixes an issue where in some cases delta update requests were not processed correctly
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup
• [Improvement] The debug log generation process has been improved and the debug log more streamlined/readable
• [New] New filter searchwp_debug_detailed to control whether detailed items are logged when debugging is enabled

2.9.14

• [Fix] Fixes false positive error message relating to HTTP Basic Authentication
• [Fix] Resolves an issue preventing translations from loading as expected
• [Change] Algorithm SQL has been updated to be more specific when considering Custom Fields and Taxonomies
• [New] New filter searchwp_dashboard_widget_transient_ttl that allows for customization of cache duration of Dashboard Widget data

2.9.13

• [Fix] Prevent redundant statistics logging on paginated results when using SWP_Query
• [Fix] Better handling of taxonomy terms with special characters
• [Fix] Fixes PHP Warning and PHP Notice in certain cases

2.9.12

• [Improvement] Index better optimized when limiting to Media mime type
• [Improvement] AND logic is more restrictive when applicable
• [Improvement] Better handling of license key when provided via constant or filter
• [Update] Updates translation source
• [Fix] Fixes inaccurate indexer progress in some cases
• [Fix] Fixes handling of All Documents mime type Media limiter
• [Fix] Fixes PHP Warning

2.9.11

• [Improvement] Additional index optimization when delta updates are applied via new filter searchwp_aggressive_delta_update
• [Improvement] Debug output cleanup
• [Fix] Implements omitted filter argument

2.9.10

• [Fix] Resolves an issue where AND logic wasn’t strict enough in some cases
• [Fix] Relocated searchwp_indexer_pre action trigger to restore expected behavior
• [Improvement] Additinal refinements to delta update queue processing to prevent excessive server resource usage in some cases
• [Improvement] Adds edit icon to supplemental engine name to communicate it is editable
• [Change] License key is no longer displayed in license key field if populated via constant or hook
• [New] New filter searchwp_engine_use_taxonomy_name that controls displaying name or label of Taxonomies in enging settings
• [New] New filter searchwp_and_fields_{$post_type} allowing for AND field customization per post type

2.9.8

• [Fix] Fixes an issue where post type Limit rules were too aggressive in some cases
• [Improvement] Refined index delta update routine to reduce potentially unnecessary triggers

2.9.7

• [Fix] Resolves issue of inaccurate results count when parent attribution is in effect
• [Fix] Fixed PHP Warning introduced in 2.9.5
• [Improvement] Better processing of engine Rules during indexing

2.9.6.1

• [Fix] Fixed PHP Warning introduced in 2.9.5
• [Fix] Fixed link in admin notice

2.9.6

• [Fix] Fixed an issue causing newly regiestered taxonomies to be unavailable in settings UI
• [Fix] Messaging for index being out of date is now more accurate
• [Fix] Paged searches are no longer redundantly logged
• [Improvement] Improved default regex patterns by making them more strict
• [Update] Updated PDF parsing libraries

2.9.5

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where ‘Any Custom Field’ did not work as expected in some cases
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where taxonomies added since the last engine save may not be available
• [Improvement] Actual weight multiplier is displayed in tooltip

2.9.4

• [Fix] Fixed a CSS bug causing multiselect overlapping when configuring multiple post types
• [Fix] Fixed an issue preventing searches of hierarchical post types in the admin

2.9.3

• [Fix] Fixed a searchwp_and_logic_only regression introduced in 2.9
• [Improvement] Better handling of initial default engine model

2.9.2

• [Fix] Fixed an issue with some custom ORDER BY statements

2.9.1

• [Fix] Fixed a potential issue with sql_mode=only_full_group_by support (added in 2.9)
• [Fix] Avoid error when parsing PDFs without mbstring

2.9

• [New] Redesigned engine configuration interface!
• [New] Index is now further optimized as per engine settings
• [New] New filter searchwp_weight_max to customize a maximum weight
• [New] New filter searchwp_legacy_settings_ui to use legacy settings UI
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_apply_engines_rules to control whether engine rules are considered during indexing
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_additional_meta_exclusions to control whether default additional Custom Fields are excluded from indexing
• [New] New filter searchwp_supports_label_{post_type}_{support} to customize the label used for a post type native attribute
• [Improvement] Additional debug statements output when enabled
• [Improvement] Better formatting of HTML comment debug output
• [Fix] Less aggressive handling of pre_get_posts during searching
• [Fix] Fix an issue with sql_mode=only_full_group_by (default in MySQL 5.7)

2.8.17

• [Update] Updated updater
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with database table creation

2.8.16

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where exclusionary weight was not properly applied to all Custom Fields
• [Fix] Resolved premature AND logic aggressiveness in some cases
• [Fix] Revised database creation schema to better cooperate with more database environments
• [Improvement] Better assumed sorting of results
• [New] New filter searchwp_stats_table_class to control CSS class applied to stats output

2.8.15

• [Improvement] Better handling of regex pattern matches
• [Fix] Fixes an issue where Media-only default engines did not fully build index
• [Update] Updated updater

2.8.14

• [Improvement] Additional checks to prevent overrun with other plugins

2.8.13

• [Fix] Fix a regression introduced to SWP_Query in 2.8.11 that may have prevented pagination from working as expected

2.8.12

• [Fix] Additional main query checks to improve plugin compatibility

2.8.11

• [Fix] Fixed an issue with main query check that prevented search results from appearing in some cases
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where default includes/exclusions would be applied outside the main query
• [Change] Updated common words (stopwords)
• [Change] Switch from page parameter to paged
  so as to better match WP_Query

2.8.10

• [Improvement] Improved main query checks
• [Improvement] Improved invisible character tokenizing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with AND logic limits given certain engine configurations
• [Fix] Fixed PHP Warnings
• [Fix] Fixed lack of output for two tooltips
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where usage of -1 weights to actively exclude matches overran enabled engine post type(s)

2.8.9

• [Fix] Fix PHP Fatal Error with $wp_query
• [Fix] Fix regression introduced in 2.8.8 that prevented admin searches from working properly in some cases

2.8.8

• [New] New filter searchwp_pre_set_post allowing for filtration of each post object prior to indexing
• [Fix] Better interoperation with Widgets
• [Fix] Prevent double search logs in certain cases
• [Fix] Properly cancel native search SQL when performing admin search (props Jim)
• [Fix] Repaired application of ‘Remove all traces’ feature on Advanced settings page
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where incorrect total results counts were logged
• [Improvement] PHP Warning cleanup
• [Improvement] Better accommodation for customization during import routines
• [Improvement] Better accommodation of engine configuration and exclusions when performing AND logic pass
• [Change] Update to SWP_Query: post__in and post__not_in parameters are now explicit (previously behaved like hooks)
• [Update] Updated updater

2.8.7

• [Fix] Fixed missing tooltip content
• [Improvement] Using searchwp_admin_bar now applies to search modification notices
• [Improvement] License key now included in System Information
• [New] Taxonomy term slugs are now indexed (use searchwp_indexer_taxonomy_term_index_slug to disable)
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_taxonomy_term allowing for filtration on taxonomy terms prior to indexing
• [Update] Updated updater

2.8.6

• [New] Fixed an issue with imposed engine config implementation for empty searches

2.8.5

• [New] Engine settings (e.g. exclusions/inclusions) are now imposed for empty searches
• [New] New filter searchwp_disable_impose_engine_config to disable imposed engine settings for empty searches
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have triggered unnecessary index update requests
• [Improvement] Style updates to better match WordPress’ implementation of system font
• [Improvement] Better handling of indexer requests
• [Improvement] Better support when Admin/Dashboard searches are enabled
• [Improvement] Better utilization of existing extracted document content when triggering an index rebuild
• [Improvement] Better feedback when document parsing dependencies are not available
• [Update] Added more file type limiters to engine settings
• [Update] Updated translation sources
• [Update] Updated updater

2.8.4

• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_comment to filter comment arguments during indexing
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_pre_get_comments to filter comment arguments during indexing
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_comments_args to filter comment arguments during indexing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented searching in the WordPress admin (when enabled)

2.8.3

• [New] New filter searchwp_search_args to filter search arguments at runtime
• [Improvement] Better handling of object caching
• [Improvement] Better messaging when rebuilding index
• [Improvement] Dequeue/deregister legacy versions of select2 that are imposed upon SearchWP’s settings screen
  • [Improvement] Better handling of regex matches
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the indexer progress bar from displaying after rebuilding index
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have prevented manually edited document content from being fully re-indexed
• [Fix] Fixed PHP Warning during short circuit check
• [Fix] Disabling the minimum character count reduces length to 1 instead of 2

2.8.2

• [Fix] Fixed a mime type mismatch that prevented accurate Media limiting using All Documents file type
• [Fix] Admin Bar and Advanced tab indexer pausing now use the same setting
• [Fix] Fixed an issue when checking for utf8mb4 support
• [Improvement] Improved regex pattern for hyphen-separated matches
• [Improvement] Improved aggressiveness of search algorithm where necessary to prevent unexpected filtration during searches
• [Update] Updated updater

2.8.1

• [Fix] Fixed a potential PHP error with write context

2.8

• [New] Document parsing support added for Office documents (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx)
• [New] Document parsing support added for OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents (.odt, .ods, .odp)
• [New] Document parsing support added for Rich Text documents
• [New] Settings screen update to better accommodate common actions
• [New] Improve settings screen performance by requesting taxonomy terms via AJAX
• [Fix] When searchwp_in_admin is enabled searching in Grid view for Media now works as expected
• [Improvement] Better handling of large content (including parsed documents)
• [Update] Updated translation source
• [Update] Updated select2

2.7.2

• [Improvement] Better handling of native search query
• [Fix] Fixed a case where searchwp_show_conflict_notices was not respected
• [Fix] Fix PHP Warning (Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-includes/query.php on line 4890)

2.7.1

• [Fix] Cleaned up PHP Warning in SWP_Query
• [Fix] Fixed positioning of Extensions dropdown, other minor style updates
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with SWP_Query not resetting set hooks causing inaccurate results
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Alternate Indexer may report posts left to index when no post types are enabled
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where AND logic pass was too restrictive in some circumstances
• [Fix] Fixed an issue when limiting Media results to Images only throwing a PHP Warning
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that caused some WP Admin notices to not display
• [Improvement] Refactored some stats logic into SearchWP_Stats
• [Change] Changed PHPCS ruleset which resulted in some additional hardening/formatting
• [Update] Updated translation source

2.7

• [New] New filter searchwp_weight_mods allowing for direct manipulation of computed weights within the search algorithm
• [New] New filter searchwp_license_key to programmatically define SearchWP license key
• [New] SearchWP license key can now be defined with SEARCHWP_LICENSE_KEY constant
• [New] New filter searchwp_initial_engine_settings to programmatically define default engine configurations on activation
• [New] New filter searchwp_keyword_stem_locale to enable keyword stemming in the current locale
• [New] Support for 'fields' => 'ids' argument in SWP_Query
• [New] Support for post_type argument in SWP_Query
• [New] New filter searchwp_purge_pdf_content to remove parsed PDF content during an index purge
• [New] New filter searchwp_skip_vendor_libs to prevent loading of any vendor libraries
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_taxonomy_terms allowing for filtration of taxonomy terms pre-index
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where searchwp_exclusive_regex_matches could have been too greedy
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where a filtered post type could not be enabled in engine settings
• [Fix] Use multibyte string manipulation when possible
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the indexer progress bar may not display in WordPress 4.4+
• [Improvement] Better handling of matches when taking advantage of searchwp_exclusive_regex_matches
• [Improvement] Improved handling of deeply serialized meta data
• [Improvement] Reduced indexer query overhead
• [Improvement] Keyword stemming is only available if the current locale supports it (if you are using a custom stemmer you will need to update)
• [Improvement] Less aggressive checks against failed PDF parsing that generated false positive results
• [Improvement] Better handling of unicode whitespace during PDF parsing
• [Change] Debug log is now written to searchwp-debug.txt in the base uploads directory
• [Change] Parsed PDF content is not removed when the index is purged
• [Update] Updated PDF parsing library
• [Update] Updated updater

2.6.1

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where AND logic may not be enforced in some circumstances
• [Fix] PDF metadata is now properly delted when Nuke on Delete is enabled
• [Fix] Fixed an issue in the tokenizer that may have prevented tokens from being broken apart when HTML had no whitespace
• [Fix] Fixed a potential issue with PDF content indexing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with the indexer not fully completing when only Media was enabled
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup when no results were found after tokenizing
• [Improvement] Improved performance when Media is given parent attribution
• [Improvement] SearchWP will now internally short circut when an empty search is performed for the main query
• [Improvement] Filtered post types are now given priority on the settings screen
• [New] Added Dutch translation

2.6

• [New] New class: SWP_Query which aims to mirror WP_Query in many ways, but with a SearchWP twist
• [New] Settings UI has been revamped
• [New] New filter: searchwp_swp_query_args to filter SWP_Query args at runtime
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_init fires when the settings utility has been initialized
• [New] New action: searchwp_load fires when SearchWP has loaded
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_before_header fires before the settings header is output
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_nav_tab to implement settings tabs
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_after_header fires after the settings header is output
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_before\my_view where my_view is the name of the settings view for that tab
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_view\my_view where my_view is the name of the settings view for that tab
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_after\my_view where my_view is the name of the settings view for that tab
• [New] New action: searchwp_settings_footer fires after each settings view has been displayed
• [New] Results weights are included in HTML comment block when debugging is enabled
• [New] New filter: searchwp_debug_append_weights_to_titles whether weights should be included in HTML comment block debug information
• [New] New filter: searchwp_show_filter_conflict_notices whether filter conflicts should be shown when debugging is enabled (defaults to false)
• [Improvement] Better license activation UX
• [Improvement] Reduction of index overhead by way of pairing to engine settings
• [Improvement] Refined list of default common (stop) words
• [Fix] Clear out delta ceiling update check when waking up the indexer
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have caused the indexer to loop when a post has no content to index after tokenizing/processing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the settings screen spinner would not display
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented loading of some assets if the plugin directory was renamed
• [Update] Updated translation files

2.5.7

• [Fix] Fixed an issue with utf8mb4 (e.g. emoji) support (NOTE: only new installations will support utf8mb4) — more information at https://searchwp.com/releases/
• [Change] All camelCase function and method names have been deprecated (not removed (yet)) in favor of underscores

2.5.6

• [Improved] Better settings standardization

2.5.5

• [Security Fix] XSS prevention for authenticated users in the admin with add_query_arg
• [Improved] Security improvements: additional/redundant escaping/preparing/casting so as to harden the code base and improve readability
• [Improved] More accurate Today stats
• [Improved] Better translation support
• [Improved] Better exception handling with PDF parsing
• [Fix] Better handling of misconfiguration when attributing an excluded post
• [New] Added French translation

2.5.4

• [Fix] Fixed an issue with regex whitelist term duplication in some cases
• [Fix] Fixed an issue when limiting AND fields to one field
• [Fix] Fixed inconsistent default parameter for searchwp_indexed_post_types filter
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup with filter conflict detection when debugging is enabled

2.5.3

• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have prevented taxonomy searches from returning results
• [Fix] Fixed a regression introduced in 2.5 that aimed to optimize the main search query by omitting taxonomies with a weight of zero
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have prevented supplemental search results from appearing

2.5

• [New] Alternate, browser based indexer for cases where background indexing doesn’t work
• [New] Front end Admin Bar entry that calls out any search modifications put in place (e.g. minimum word length, common words, maximum search length)
• [New] New filter: searchwp_alternate_indexer to trigger the new browser-based indexer
• [New] New filter: searchwp_log_search to allow prevention of search logging on a per-case basis
• [New] New filter: searchwp_init to allow for dynamic initialization of SearchWP
• [New] New filter: searchwp_max_delta_attempts to catch edge cases causing repeated delta updates
• [New] New filter: searchwp_indexer_taxonomies allows developers to customize which taxonomies are indexed
• [New] New filter: searchwp_indexer_unindexed_args to customize WP_Query arguments used to locate unindexed posts
• [New] New filter: searchwp_indexer_unindexed_media_args to customize WP_Query arguments used to locate unindexed Media
• [New] New filter: searchwp_failed_index_notice to customize who can see the notice about unindexed posts
• [New] New filter: searchwp_remove_pre_get_posts to define whether all hooks to pre_get_posts are removed during indexing (a very common conflict)
• [New] New filter: searchwp_indexer_pre_process_content allows developers to customize the content being indexed before it is processed and indexed
• [New] Set default array of excluded IDs to the main search query’s post__not_in
• [New] Set default array of included IDs to the main search query’s post__in
• [New] PDF metadata is now indexed
• [Change] Use get_query_var() instead of directly grabbing $wp_query attributes
• [Change] Add index.php to default loopback endpoint to avoid false positives with WAFs
• [Change] Use debug.txt instead of debug.log
• [Change] PDF text extraction abstracted to it’s own method SWP()->extract_pdf_text( $post_id )
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented limiting Media results for an engine to more than one MIME type group
• [Fix] Fixed an off-by-one issue that prevented single terms from being indexed when using the searchwp_process_term_limit filter
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that interfered with pagination in the WP admin when searchwp_in_admin was set to true
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup in Dashboard Widget
• [Fix] Only output Dashboard Widget assets on the Dashboard
• [Fix] Fixed an overflow issue in Dashboard Widget when collapsed on load
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Dashboard Widget stats transients were not cleared when stats were reset
• [Improvement] Better minimum height for statistics graph
• [Improvement] Better width restriction on settings screen for post type tabs
• [Improvement] Better detection of database environment change that may interfere with indexing
• [Improvement] Weights of less than 0 are now called out to ensure intention of excluding results
• [Improvement] Better checks against searchwp_indexed_post_types when displaying settings screen
• [Improvement] Main search algorithm optimizations
• [Improvement] Indexer now checks for excluded posts before reindexing them after a purge
• [Improvement] Optimizations to search algorithm when weights of zero are used
• [Improvement] UI improvements on the settings screen
• [Update] Updated translation files
• [Update] Updated updater

2.4.11

• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented post attribution when using explicit IDs
• [Fix] Set proper flags when all search terms have been invalidated
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup with Dashboard Widget
• [Improvement] Further optimization of results pool reduction when exclusions are in place
• [Update] Updated translation source files
• [Change] searchwp_term_in filter now has a 3rd parameter with the original (e.g. unstemmed when stemming is enabled) term

2.4.10

• [Fix] PHP 5.2 compatibility with PDF parser fallback
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where some search strings were not properly ignored
• [Fix] Proper clearing of meta boxes on stats page at certain resolutions

2.4.9

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where limiting Media results to All Documents did not apply the expected limit
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where AND logic refinement may cause zero results to display depending on Title weight
• [Update] Updated PHP PDF parser (requires PHP 5.3+, will still fall back to less reliable legacy parser if PHP 5.2)
• [Change] Return WP_Error when an invalid search engine name is used

2.4.8

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where proper weights may not have been properly retained throughout the entire search algorithm, resulting in zero results
• [Fix] Default search results now take into account an offset (if one was set)
• [New] New filter searchwp_query_offset allowing for customization of the offset of the default search engine

2.4.7

• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup: removed deprecated usage of mysql_get_server_info()

2.4.6

• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented parsed PDF content from being indexed on the first pass
• [New] Version numbers (SearchWP, WordPress, PHP, MySQL) are now passed along with support requests

2.4.5.1

• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup for in_array() in searchwp.php on line 1588

2.4.5

• [New] Direct integration of support ticket creation within the WordPress admin
• [New] New filter searchwp_lightweight_settings allowing for a speedier but degraded settings screen loading (e.g. not loading taxonomy terms)
• [New] New filter searchwp_dashboard_widget_cap for more control over Dashboard Widget visibility (defaults to settings cap (which defaults to manage_options))
• [New] Settings export/import facilitated by copying and pasting JSON of engine configuration(s)
• [Improvement] Due to numerous issues with object caching, index validation hashes are stored as options instead of transients
• [Improvement] Updated licensing system framework
• [Improvement] Better handling of initial UI load on settings screen by obstructing UI until all bindings are properly in place
• [Change] Switched to Chartist for statistics graphs
• [Change] Reinstated automatic theme conflict notices (filter conflicts continue to appear only when debugging is enabled)
• [Fix] Search statistics for Today are more accurate
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented Shortcodes from being processed when using searchwp_do_shortcode
• [Fix] Fixed an issue triggered by a Custom Post Type named label preventing proper SearchWP settings storage
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented Dashboard Widget transient storage if supplemental search names exceeded 17 characters

2.4.4

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where certain search terms were being double-stemmed

2.4.3

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where PDFs attributed to their post parent weren’t showing up in search results

2.4.2

• [Improvement] Resolved query latency introduced in 2.4.1 concerning attribution

2.4.1

• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented parent attribution from working properly in certain cases

2.4

• [New] SearchWP will now detect whether you’re using HTTP Basic Authentication
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_basic_auth_creds allowing developers to define HTTP Basic Authentication credentials
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_query_select_inject allowing developers the ability to inject their own statements into the main search query, allowing for extensive customization of results display beyond keyword weights
• [New] Search Statistics Dashboard Widget
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_dashboard_widget allowing developers to disable the Search Statistics Dashboard Widget
• [New] System Information panel (on the Advanced settings screen) to ease support
• [Improvement] Better handling of searchwp_indexer_enabled when used at the same time as searchwp_indexer_paused
• [Improvement] Better handling of accented characters
• [Fix] Force transient deletion
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where keyword stemming may have not been appropriately applied
• [Change] Conflict notices are now only displayed when debugging is enabled

2.3.3

• [Improvement] Admin Bar entry now elaborates on why a post is not indexed (e.g. draft status if not filtered)
• [Improvement] Admin Bar entry now more accurately calls out when a post is in the process of being indexed
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have prevented strings of only digits from being properly indexed

2.3.2

• [Improvement] Better capture of SQL_BIG_SELECTS errors by including a link to the fix in the Admin Bar
• [Improvement] Better handling of character encoding when parsing PDFs
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where posts excluded from the index were not properly listed on the exclusions page

2.3.1

• [Fix] Fixed a check for DOMDocument and cleaned up PHP warning about empty DOMDocument content
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where saved Custom Field keys were not retrieved properly on the settings screen
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where exclusion fields weren’t treated with select2 when creating supplemental search engines
• [Change] Loading the settings screen UI partial via AJAX is now opt-in
  • [New] New Filter: searchwp_lazy_settings allowing developers to trigger a cachebusting version of the settings screen

2.3

• [New] Added UI feedback when the indexer has been automatically throttled due to excessive server load
• [New] Deprecated $searchwp global in favor of new function SWP()
• [New] You can now retrieve the specific weights that set the order for search results per-post and per-post-type-per-post (SWP()->results_weights)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_endpoint allowing developers to customize the endpoint used by the indexer for each pass (uses only the slug, the site_url() is automatically prepended)
• [New] SearchWP will now index what it considers valuable HTML element attribute content (e.g. alt text)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_indexer_tag_attributes allowing developers to customize which elements and attributes are considered valuable
• [Improvement] Significant performance increase of main search algorithm
• [Improvement] Better UTF-8 support when tokenizing
• [Improvement] Indexer now ensures it’s not being throttled before jumpstarting
• [Improvement] Reset AUTO_INCREMENT when the index is purged
• [Improvement] Deprecated and removed explicit indexed meta flag in favor of utilizing the already present last_index meta flag
• [Fix] Removed redundant error_log usage with debugging enabled
• [Fix] Properly log searches called directly from search class
• [Fix] Empty searches are no longer logged when performed via the API
• [Change] Removed Remote Debugging as it no longer applies to support
• [Change] Settings screen is now loaded via AJAX so as to get around excessive page caching in the WP admin by certain hosts
• [Change] MyISAM is no longer explicitly used when creating custom database tables (uses your MySQL default instead)
• [Change] Refined default common words

2.2.3

• [Improvement] Another revision to the indexer stall check
• [Improvement] Updated translation source
• [New] Added an admin notice if your log file exceeds 2MB

2.2.2

• [Improvement] Better indexer stall check
• [Improvement] Better handling of search logs (moved from main class method to search class) to better accommodate 3rd party integrations

2.2.1

• [Improvement] Better handling of indexer stall check
• [Improvement] Switched Admin Bar entry from ‘Currently Being Indexed’ to ‘In index queue’ for accuracy’s sake
• [Improvement] Better handling of delta updates prior to the initial index being built
• [Improvement] Better implementation of searchwp_exclusive_regex_matches usage, matches are now extracted earlier resulting in more concise results
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented search queries from being logged when instantiating the search class directly
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where manually edited PDF content would be overwritten by a subsequent delta index update after saving
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have prevented the indexer from fully waking up when waking up the indexer
• [Fix] Fixed a false positive when checking for WPML Integration
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with Xpdf Integration not saving the extracted text

2.2

• [New] New class: SearchWP_Stats which will eventually house a number of utility methods for better statistics as development continues
• [New] SearchWP will now detect if you’re running a plugin that has an integration Extension available and tell you about it
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_omit_meta_key allows developers to omit specific meta keys from being indexed during indexing
• [Improvement] Hardened the indexer communication process, reducing server resource consumption during indexing
• [Improvement] Better handling of regex whitelist matches that result with multi-word tokens (e.g. spaces within) NOTE: having multi-word matches is not recommended
• [Improvement] Added $engine parameter to searchwp_query_orderby filter
• [Improvement] Simplified the check for a stalled indexer
• [Improvement] Multi-term regex whitelist matches will no longer be tokenized but indexed as a whole for better phrase-matching
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Heartbeat index time updates were not prefixed with “Last indexed”
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the debugger would not properly instantiate thereby preventing additions to the log file
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Heartbeat API-powered timestamp of last index was missing “Last Indexed” phrasing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where in some circumstances content blocks parsed from PDFs would not be properly separated, resulted in the last word of one section being lumped together with the first word of the next section
• [Fix] Prevent over-preparation of terms when performing AND logic refinement
• [Fix] Check for indexer being disabled when issuing delta updates

2.1.3

• [Improvement] Better encoding and font support for PDF content extraction
• [Improvement] Reduced memory footprint when not indexing PDFs
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where searchwp_settings_cap was not properly applied
• [Fix] Reduced aggressiveness when tokenizing PDF content
• [Fix] Fixed thrown exception when parsing specific PDF encodings
• [Fix] Fixed a PHP 5.2 issue
• [Fix] Corrected an include path for ElementXRef.php

2.1

• [Improvement] Significant query performance improvement in AND logic pass
• [Improvement] Much improved PDF content extraction when using only PHP as opposed to Xpdf Integration (requires PHP5.3+ else SearchWP will fall back to previous method)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_settings_cap allows you to customize the capability required to manage SearchWP’s settings in the WordPress admin
• [New] You can now bulk-reintroduce posts that failed indexing

2.0.4

• [New] New regex whitelist pattern to support ampersand-joined terms (e.g. M&M)
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where toggling whether the indexer was enabled/disabled would sometimes conflict if not done on the SearchWP settings screen
• [Improvement] Fixed an issue where umlaut’s were incorrectly removed from PDF content when extracted using internal (PHP-based) method
• [Improvement] Theme conflict detection now takes into account single line comments (does not cover all commented use cases)
• [Improvement] Improved term processing when using built in sanitization prior to searches

2.0.3

• [New] New Filter: searchwp_get_custom_fields allowing developers to pre-fetch (and set) post metadata just before indexing takes place (props Stefan Hans Schonert)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_term_in allowing you to modify each term (per term) used in the main search algorithm
• [Improvement] Better handling of filtered terms, allowing extensions more control over the actual search query
• [Improvement] searchwp_indexer_loopback_args is now applied to every HTTP call SearchWP makes

2.0.2

• [New] New Filter: searchwp_statistics_cap allows you to filter which capability is required to view and interact with stats
• [Improvement] Ignored queries in search statistics are now stored per user, not globally

2.0.1

• [Fix] Fixed an issue introduced in 2.0 that prevented the uninstallation routine from properly executing when not using multisite
• [Improvement] Resolved an issue in certain hosting environments that may have prevented the indexer from running

2.0

• [New] Shortcode processing: SearchWP can now process your Shortcodes in a number of ways
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_do_shortcode allows you to conditionally tell SearchWP to process all Shortcodes
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_set_post allows you to modify each post object prior to indexing, allowing for conditional processing of Shortcodes and more
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_nuke_on_delete to trigger Nuke on Delete (overrides setting!)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_exclusive_regex_matches to force the indexer to prevent indexing exploded regex matches
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_omit_meta_key_{custom_field_key} allowing for per-key conditional exclusion of post meta when indexing
• [Improvement] Refined regex whitelist pattern for matching hyphen-separated-strings
• [Improvement] The indexer no longer strips regex matches but instead retains them to better facilitate partial matches
• [Improvement] Better language for action/conflict notices
• [Improvement] You can now restore dismissed action/conflict notices in case you want to view them again
• [Improvement] Slight update to the settings UI (better active tab contrast, lessened border radii)
• [Improvement] Better exposure of Statistics feature
• [Improvement] Uninstallation routine now better respects multisite environment
• [Improvement] You can now exclude by terms that have not been used yet
• [Improvement] Better default exclusion of internal metadata when indexing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where regex whitelist matches were not extracted from supplemental search queries during sanitization
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that might result in duplication of terms that are integers in the index
• [Fix] Fixed a potential issue (during updates) where Supplemental search engine labels would inadvertently have their first letter converted to an ‘A’
• [Fix] Redundant preparation of search terms when checking for exclusions by weight of -1
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup

1.9.11

• [Improvement] Added a regex whitelist pattern for hyphen-separated strings often used for serial numbers
• [Improvement] Reduced the overhead of term extraction when processing the regex whitelist which might cause long posts with many regex matches to stall the indexer

1.9.10

• [Fix] Fixed a regression in version 1.9.8 that prevented the installation of new plugins from .org

1.9.9

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where extended term-chunking of long posts may not have completed properly

1.9.8

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the changelog would not be visible when clicking ‘view version details’ links
• [Change] Automatic load monitoring is again enabled by default
• [Improvement] The notice that outputs an indication of posts that failed to index now respects purposefully excluded post IDs via searchwp_prevent_indexing filter

1.9.7

• [New] New Filter: searchwp_index_comments allows you to prevent comments from being indexed
• [Improvement] Prevented potential edge case where the indexer may stall after completing a delta update
• [Improvement] More aggressive implementation of term regex whitelist (matches are now indexed fully in tact and not broken apart)
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where problematic posts that failed to index were not properly called out in the WordPress admin
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where ‘Any’ Custom Field may not have applied correctly

1.9.5

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where searchwp_in_admin may not properly hijack search results in the WordPress admin as desired
• [Improvement] Only return results from the post type being viewed when searchwp_in_admin is enabled and performing a search
• [Improvement] Additional optimization and segmentation of settings where appropriate to prevent potential collision
• [Improvement] Use the Heartbeat API to dynamically update the Last Indexed time when on post edit screens

1.9.4

• [Fix] Fixed a CSS rendering issue in Firefox on the Search Stats page
• [Improvement] Hardened settings getting and setting mechanism
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_show_conflict_notices allows you to force-hide any conflict warnings generated by SearchWP

1.9.2

• [New] Added a number of actions to allow developers to react to various phases of indexing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where setting -1 posts per page was incorrectly utilized when performing searches
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented SearchWPSearch instantiation when AJAX calls were made
• [Improvement] Modified default term whitelist rules to be more targeted
• [Improvement] Reduced the number of notifications displayed upon activation
• [Improvement] Reduced the number of queries necessary to store/retrieve various settings
• [Improvement] Better data storage so as to work alongside various object caching plugins without stalling the indexer

1.9

• [New] You can now ignore queries from Search Stats (to help avoid spam getting in the way)
• [New] Term Whitelisting: you can now define regex patterns and in doing so better retain specially formatted terms (e.g. dates, phone numbers, function names) in the index that otherwise would have been stripped of punctuation
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_query_orderby allows open-ended customization of the ORDER BY clause of the main search query
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_force_run allows developers the ability to force SearchWP to run no matter what
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_leinant_accents allowing for ‘lazy’ quotes (e.g. searches without quotes will find terms with quotes)
• [Improvement] PHP Error cleanup
• [Improvement] Revisited index table indices, they’re now better optimized which should result in noticeable performance improvements
• [Improvement] Load monitoring has been removed as it proved to be holding back the indexer resulting in delayed index times
• [Improvement] Attachment indexing has been disabled by default to save the (significant) overhead, but it will enable itself if any of your search engine settings incorporate Media
• [Improvement] Refined the number of posts indexed per indexer passed, as always this can be filtered
• [Improvement] Reduced the information overload present in the debug log, allowing for easier scanning for issues
• [Improvement] Offloaded AJAX handlers to minimize footprint and impact on the indexer
• [Improvement] Fixed overflow issues on the Search Stats page
• [Improvement] Informational notice linking directly to more information on Filters having everything to do with indexer configuration
• [Improvement] Better detection of parallel indexer processes running that could have resulted in duplicate indexing
• [Improvement] Indexer pause/unpause has been re-named enable/disable to reduce confusion
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where update notifications wouldn’t show up in the Network Administration on Multisite

1.8.4

• [Improvement] Better handling of serialized objects which resulted in _PHPIncomplete_Class errors
• [Improvement] Better enforcement of maximum term length when indexing as defined by the database schema
• [Improvement] Better handling of Deadlock cases when indexing
• [Improvement] Improved default common/stop words

1.8.3

• [Fix] Cleanup of PHP Warnings
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_outside_main_query allowing for specific overrides when performing native searches
• [Improvement] Updated translation files (accurate translations will be rewarded, please contact [email protected])

1.8.2

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where update notifications would not persist properly

1.8.1

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where, in certain cases, weight attribution (or a lack thereof) would cause searches to fail

1.8

• [New] You can now include a LIKE modifier (%) in Custom Field keys (essentially supporting ACF Repeater field (and similar plugins) data storage)
• [New] SearchWP will now attempt to detect potential conflicts and add notices in the WordPress admin when it finds potential problems
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where custom keyword stemmers would only be used during indexing, not searching
• [Improvement] The Custom Fields dropdown on the settings page is no longer limited to the 25 most-used meta keys
• [Improvement] The Custom Fields dropdown now uses select2 to make it easier to quickly select your desired meta key
• [Improvement] Various improvements to the main settings screen styles
• [Improvement] Fixed an issue where Custom Field meta keys would be over-sanitized when saved in the SearchWP options
• [Improvement] Update checks are performed less aggressively, reducing some cases of increased latency in the WordPress admin
• [Improvement] Better singleton instantiation, fixing an issue with localization and certain hook utilization
• [Improvement] Scheduled events are now properly removed upon plugin deactivation
• [Improvement] Reduction in query overhead when multiple Custom Field meta keys have the same weight
• [Improvement] Reduction in query overhead when multiple taxonomies have the same weight
• [Improvement] Refactored the main query algorithm so as to improve maintainability and stability over time
• [Improvement] Formatting improvements, code quality improvements
• [Improvement] Updated translation files (accurate translations will be rewarded, please contact [email protected])

1.7.2

• [New] New Extension: Term Highlight – highlight search terms when outputting results!
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_found_post_objects allowing for the customization of Post objects returned by searches
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where overriding SearchWP File Content would be overwritten when the post got reindexed
• [Fix] Hotfix for a potential update issue, if you do not see an update notification in your dashboard, please download from your Account

1.7

• [New] There is a new Advanced option called Nuke on Delete that adjusts the uninstallation routine to only remove data if you opt in
• [Improvement] AND logic queries now force their own index
• [Improvement] Removed unused constant
• [Improvement] Offloaded update checks to only occur in the admin and therefore reduce overhead on the front end
• [Improvement] Update checks are now performed once a day so as to reduce page load latency when working in the WordPress admin
• [Improvement] Changed the way license checks were performed to avoid potential unwanted caching issues
• [Fix] Fixed invalid textdomain usage for l18n

1.6.10

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where keyword weights between 0 and 1 were converted to integers
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_post_statuses allowing for the customization of which post statuses are considered when indexing and searching

1.6.9

• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have generated a SQL error after late term sanitization when performing searches
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that caused taxonomies to be omitted in searches by default upon activation

1.6.8

• [Fix] Fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.7 that prevented the ‘last indexed’ statistic from being properly maintained
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_extra_metadata allowing you to force additional content into the index per post

1.6.7

• [Change] Background indexing process has been updated to better accommodate maintenance mode plugins
• [Fix] Fixed an issue that may have prevented result exclusion given weight of -1 in some cases
• [Improvement] Reduced the overhead of the logs table (note: search stats will be reset to accommodate this)
• [Improvement] Miscellaneous code reorganization and optimization

1.6.6

• [New] New Advanced option to reset Search Stats

1.6.5

• [Improvement] Better appropriate suppression of WP_Query filters in internal calls
• [Improvement] Admin Bar entry better labels whether the indexer is paused

1.6.4

• [Fix] Admin bar entries now only show up when browsing the WordPress admin and the current user can update_options
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where overwriting the stored PDF content may not have properly taken place
• [Improvement] Initial AND logic pass now assumes keyword stem to create a better initial results pool
• [Improvement] When debugging is enabled, an HTML comment block is output at the bottom of pages to indicate what took place during that pageload
• [Improvement] Asset URLs in the admin now better respect alternative placement (props Jason C.)

1.6.3

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where AND logic was wrongly applied to single term searches if you set searchwp_and_logic_only to be true
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where searchwp_posts_per_page was not properly applied to WordPress native searches
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_big_selects for cases where SearchWP breaches your MySQL-defined max_join_size

1.6.2

• [Fix] Fixed a PHP 5.2 compatibility error (TPAAMAYIMNEKUDOTAYIM)

1.6.1

• [Fix] Fixed an error on plugin deletion via WP admin
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where (if you opt to disable automatic delta updates) the queue could be overwritten in some cases
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where (in certain circumstances) searches for values only in Custom Field data may yield no results

1.6

• [New] Added indexer pause toggle to Admin Bar
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_custom_fields allowing you parse custom fields, telling SearchWP what content you want to be indexed
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_custom_field_{$customFieldName} performs the same filtration, but for a single Custom Field
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_excluded_custom_fields allowing you to customize which meta_keys are automatically excluded during indexing
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_background_deltas allowing you to disable automatic delta index updates (you would then need to set up your own via WP-Cron or otherwise, useful for high traffic sites)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_weight_threshold allowing you to specify a minimum weight for search results to be considered (default is zero)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_indexed_post_types allowing you to specify which post types are indexed (note: this controls only what post types are indexed, it has no effect on enabling/disabling post types on the SearchWP Settings screen)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_return_orderby_random allowing search results to be returned at random
• [Improvement] Indexer optimizations in a number of places, index builds should be even faster (and more considerate of server resources)
• [Improvement] Auto-throttling now takes into account your maxexecutiontime so as to not exceed it
• [Improvement] Indexer now scales how many terms are processed per pass based on your memory_limit (can still be overridden)
• [Improvement] Better handling of potential table deadlock when indexing
• [Improvement] Overall reduction in memory usage when indexing
• [Fix] Fixed an off-by-one issue when filtering terms by minimum character length when parsing search terms
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the progress meter would automatically dismiss itself after purging the index

1.5.5

• [Improvement] Better performance on a number of queries throughout
• [Improvement] SearchWP will now monitor load averages (on Linux machines) and auto-throttle when loads get too high
• [Change] The default indexer pass timeout (throttle) is now 1 second
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Media may not be indexed on upload
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where terms in file names may be counted twice when indexing
• [Improvement] Many more logging messages included, logs now include internal process identification
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with non-blocking requests and their associated timeouts potentially stalling the indexing process

1.5

• [New] Admin Bar entry (currently displays the last time the current post was indexed)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_admin_bar to allow you to disable the Admin Bar entry if you so choose
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_indexer_throttle allows you to tell the indexer to pause a number of seconds in between passes
• [Fix] PHP Warning cleanup
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where keyword stems were not fully utilized in AND logic passes
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where attachments may not be properly reindexed after an edit
• [Fix] Better index cleanup of deleted Media
• [Improvement] SearchWP’s indexer will now automatically pause/unpause when running WordPress Importer

1.4.9

• [Fix] Fixed a regression that removed the searchwp_and_logic_only filter

1.4.8

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the default comment weight was not properly set on install
• [Improvement] Better handling of additional reduction of AND pool results
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_return_orderby_date to allow developers to return results ordered by date instead of weight

1.4.7

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the minimum word length was not taken into consideration when sanitizing terms

1.4.6

• [Improvement] More precise refactor of AND logic to prevent potential false positives
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_and_fields allows you to limit which field types apply to AND logic (i.e. limit to Title)

1.4.5

• [Fix] Fixed potential PHP Warnings
• [New] You can now use weights of -1 to forcefully exclude matches
• [New] By default SearchWP will now ignore WordPress core postmeta (e.g. _edit_lock)
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_omit_wp_metadata to include WordPress core postmeta in the index

1.4.4

• [Fix] Better coverage of deferred index delta updates

1.4.3

• [Improvement] Better handling of refinement of AND logic in more cases
• [Improvement] Better handling of forced AND logic when it returns zero results

1.4.2

• [Fix] Fixed a potential issue where the search algorithm refinement may be too aggressive
• [New] New Filter: searchwp_custom_stemmer to allow for custom (usually localized) stemming. Requires a re-index if utilized

1.4.1

• [New] New filter: searchwp_and_logic_only to allow you to explicity force SearchWP to use AND logic only
• [New] New filter: searchwp_refine_and_results tells SearchWP to further restrict AND results to titles
• [New] New filter: searchwp_max_and_results to allow you to tell SearchWP when you want it to refine AND results

1.4

• [New] Added a new Advanced setting to allow you to pause the indexer without deactivating SearchWP
• [New] New filter: searchwp_include_comment_author allows you to enable indexing of comment author
• [New] New filter: searchwp_include_comment_email allows you to enable indexing of comment author email
• [New] New filter: searchwp_auto_reindex to allow you to disable automatic reindexing of edited posts
• [New] New filter: searchwp_indexer_paused to allow you to override the Advanced setting programmatically
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where comments were not accurately indexed
• [Improvement] Improved stability of results when multiple posts have the same final weight by supplementally sorting by post_date DESC

1.3.6

• [New] New filter: searchwp_short_circuit to allow you to have SearchWP not run at runtime. Useful when implementing other plugins that utilize search.

1.3.5

• [Improvement] Implemented workaround for issues experienced with Post Types Order that prevented search results from appearing

1.3.4.1

• [Fix] Fixed a bug with weight attribution that resulted from the update in 1.3.4

1.3.4

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where taxonomy/custom field weight may not have been appropriate attributed when applicable
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where ‘Any’ custom field weight may not have been appropriately applied
• [Improvement] Remote debugging info now updates more consistently
• [Improvement] Additional method for remote debugging

1.3.3

• [New] Initial implementation of Remote Debugging (found in Advanced settings)
• [New] Extension: Xpdf Integration
• [New] New filter: searchwp_external_pdf_processing to allow you to use your own PDF processing mechanism
• [Improvement] Less strict AND logic used in the main query
• [Improvement] Better database environment check (needed as a result of MySQL bug 41156)
• [Improvement] Additional cleanup of SearchWP options during uninstallation
• [Improvement] Force license deactivation during uninstallation

1.3.2

• [New] SearchWP now defaults to AND logic with search terms, huge performance boost as a result (note: if no posts are found via AND, OR will be used)
• [New] New filter: searchwp_and_logic to revert back to OR logic
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with the new deferred index updates

1.3.1

• [New] Added ability to ‘wake up’ the indexer if you feel it has stalled
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Custom Field weights would not be properly retrieved if there were capital letters in the key
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with cron scheduling and management
• [Improvement] Delta index updates are now performed in the background
• [Improvement] Reduced latency between indexer passes
• [Improvement] Better tracking of repeated passes on lengthy index entries
• [Improvement] Better accommodation of potential indexer pass overlapping and in doing so reduce the liklihood of database table deadlocking
• [Improvement] Better notifications regarding license activation
• [Improvement] More useful debugger logging
• [Improvement] Better index progress display after purging the index

1.3

• [New] New filter: searchwp_search_query_order to allow changing the search query order results at runtime
• [New] New filter: searchwp_max_index_attempts to allow control over how many times the indexer should try to index a post
• [New] New filter: searchwp_prevent_indexing to allow exclusion of post IDs from the index process entirely
• [Improvement] Better low-level interception of WordPress query process so as to accommodate other plugin workflows
• [Improvement] Better realtime monitoring of indexer progress
• [Improvement] Better detection and handling of troublesome posts when indexing
• [Improvement] Better handling of ‘initial index complete’ notification after purging and reindexing
• [Improvement] Cleaned up purging and uninstallation routines

1.2.5

• [Improvement] Search statistics are no longer reset along with purging the index
• [Improvement] Better options cleanup both during index purges and uninstallations
• [Improvement] Improvement in overall indexer performance, not by a large margin, but some

1.2.4

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the database environment check was too aggressive and prevented activation before the environment was set up

1.2.3

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where numeric Custom Field data was not indexed accurately
• [Improvement] Better detection for custom database table creation

1.2.2

• [Improvement] Better accommodation for regression in 1.2.0 that prevented proper taxonomy exclusion

1.2.1

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where index progress indicator could exceed 100% after disabling attachment indexing
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where category exclusion would not always apply to search engine settings

1.2.0

• [Improvement] Overall reduction in query time when performing searches (sometimes down to 50%!)
• [Improvement] Indexing process now handles huge posts in a more efficient way, avoiding PHP timeouts
• [Improvement] Better handling of term indexing resulting in a more accurate index
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where term IDs were not pulled properly during indexing
• [Change] Changed the default weight for Titles so as to better meet user expectations

1.1.2

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the WordPress database prefix was hardcoded in certain situations
• [Improvement] Removed redundant SQL call resulting in faster search queries

1.1.1

• [Improvement] More parameters passed to just about every SearchWP hook, please view the documentation for details

1.1

• [New] A more formal integration of Extensions such that settings screens can be added
• [New] You can now limit Media search results by their type (e.g. search only Documents)
• [New] Extension: Term Synonyms – manually define term synonyms
• [New] Extension: WPML Integration
• [New] Extension: Polylang Integration
• [New] Extension: bbPress Integration
• [New] New filter searchwp_include that accepts an array of limiting post IDs during searches
• [New] New filter searchwp_query_main_join to allow custom joining during the main search query
• [New] New filter searchwp_query_join to allow custom joining in per-post-type subqueries when searching
• [New] New filter searchwp_query_conditions to allow custom conditions in per-post-type subqueries when searching
• [New] New filter searchwp_index_attachments to allow you to disable indexing of Attachments entirely to save index time
• [Improvement] Major reduction in query time if you choose to NOT include Media in search results (or limit Media to Documents)
• [Improvement] Better edge case coverage to the indexing process; it’s now less likely to stall arbitrarily
• [Improvement] Better delta index updates by skipping autosaves and revisions more aggressively
• [Improvement] Fixed a UI issue where the CPT column on the settings screen may expand beyond the right hand column
• [Improvement] Better default weights

1.0.10

• [New] Added filter searchwp_common_words
• [New] Added filter searchwp_enable_parent_attribution_{posttype}
• [New] Added filter searchwp_enable_attribution_{posttype}

1.0.9

• [Improvement] Better cleaning and processing of taxonomy terms
• [Improvement] Additional parameter when invoking SearchWPSearch for 3rd party integrations (props Matt Gibbs)
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with Firefox not liking SVG files

1.0.8

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where duplicate terms could get returned when sanitizing
• [New] Extension: Fuzzy Searching
• [New] Extension: Term Archive Priority
• [New] Added filter searchwp_results to faciliate filtration of results before they’re returned
• [New] Added filter searchwp_query_limit_start to allow offsetting the main query results
• [New] Added filter searchwp_query_limit_total to allow offsetting the main query results
• [New] Added filter searchwp_pre_search_terms to allow filtering search terms before searches run
• [New] Added filter searchwp_load_posts so as to prevent weighty loading of all post data when all you want is IDs (props Matt Gibbs)
• [Improvement] More arguments passed to searchwpbeforequeryindex and searchwpafterqueryindex actions

1.0.7

• [NOTICE] Due to an indexer update, it is recommended that you purge your index after updating
• [Improvement] Better, more performant indexer behavior during updates
• [Improvement] Added logging for supplemental searches
• [Improvement] Better punctuation handling during indexing and searching
• [Improvement] Better cleanup of stored options when applicable
• [Fix] Better logging of original search queries compared to what actually gets sent through the algorithm
• [Fix] Fixed potential PHP warning

1.0.6

• [Improvement] Better handling of source code-related indexing and searching
• [New] Added filter searchwp_engine_settings_{$engine} to allow adjustment of weights at runtime
• [New] Added filter searchwp_max_search_terms to cap the number of search terms that can be searched for (default 6)
• [New] Added filter searchwp_max_search_terms_supplemental to cap the number of terms for supplemental searches
• [New] Added filter searchwp_max_search_terms_supplemental_{$engine} to cap the number of terms for supplemental searches by engine
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with empty search queries showing up in search stats
• [Fix] Fixed an issue with CSS alignment of search stats
• [Fix] Fixed an issue where the indexer would index and then re-index posts when not needed
• [Fix] Fixed a MySQL error when logging indexer actions

1.0.5

• [Change] Updated user-agent of indexer background process for easier debugging
• [New] Added initial support for common debugging assistance via searchwp_log action
• [Improvement] Better support for WordPress installations in subdirectories
• [Improvement] If the initial index is already built by the time you go from activation to settings screen, a notice is displayed
• [Improvement] Better support for generating your own pagination with supplemental searches http://d.pr/MXgp
• [Fix] Stopped ’empty’ search queries from being logged
• [New] Added filter searchwp_index_chunk_size to adjust how many posts are indexed at a clip

1.0.4

• [Fix] Much better handling of all UTF-8 characters both when indexing and when searching

1.0.3

• [Fix] Fixed an issue with the auto-update script not resolving properly
• [Improvement] Better handling of special characters both when indexing and querying

1.0.2

• [Fix] Fixed an issue where Custom Field weights weren’t saving properly on the Settings screen

1.0.1

• [Fix] Fixed an issue that would cause searches to fail if an enabled custom post type had a hyphen in it’s name
• [Fix] Fixed an off-by-one issue in generating statistical figures

1.0.0

• Initial release