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SearchWP’s indexer is not a crawler. That is to say it does not operate like many search engines (e.g. Google) and it does not load pages of your website to index content. The indexer pulls data directly from the database.
Keyword stemming is much more advanced than chopping words into arbitrary chunks that match either the beginning or the end of a word. Stemming is an active process based on the language of the term itself. Terms are checked for a suffix (e.g. “ing”, “ed”, etc.) and the base of the word is determined and used […]
SearchWP was designed from the get-go to work best on small-to-midsize sites. It will work best on a site with anywhere from a few posts to a few thousand. If your website has tens of thousands of posts (e.g. Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types) or even hundreds of thousands I would not recommend using SearchWP. […]
SearchWP does not directly display search results, it only provides new results for your theme to display. SearchWP does not modify your existing search results template in any way. Upon activating SearchWP, your search results will display in exactly the same way they did before activating SearchWP, but SearchWP tells WordPress which results to include. To […]
BuddyPress stores some content (e.g. Activity Stream) in a custom database table, so a custom Source is needed.
You can utilize all of the content that’s gone unrecognized by native WordPress keyword search instantly with SearchWP.
Jan v.
“SearchWP is the booster WP needs. It converts search in what it should be. Great plugin!”
Jim W.
“I used SearchWP to index 40,000 images by a National Geographic photographer. It did a great job; the plugin has great hooks and filters; the documentation is excellent; and the developer was helpful. Thanks!”
Mike M.
“SearchWP searches custom attributes. This is what I needed primarily for my client.”