WP Engine Smart Search

Description

WP Engine Smart Search is an enhanced search solution for WordPress. WordPress default search struggles to surface relevant content
from searches, this plugin enables WordPress to query vastly more relevant and refined content. The plugin enables a
variety of configuration options and is compatible with builtins and a variety of popular plugins such as, Custom Post Type UI,
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

• Wpengine Smart Search Recommendations
• Filter Facet WP Engine Smart Search block for categories filter

Installation

This plugin and its credentials will be automatically installed and configured on your WordPress instance after purchasing WP Engine Smart Search on your WP Engine Plan and assigning a license to the environment in the user portal.

1. This plugin can be installed directly from your WordPress site.

• Log in to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins → Add New.
• Type “Smart Search” into the Search box.
• Locate the WP Engine Smart Search plugin in the list of search results and click Install Now.
• Once installed, click the Activate button.

1. Installing via WP-CLI Command (Using WP Engine Dev Tools Dashboard).

• Log in to your WP Engine User Portal.
• Navigate to your environment and open the Advanced tools tab to establish a secure SSH connection to your WordPress site.
• Once connected, issue the following WP-CLI command to install the plugin:
  ` $ wp plugin install atlas-search –activate “`
• This command will download, install, and activate the latest version of WP Engine Smart Search.

1. Installing Manually Using a ZIP File

• Download the latest version of the WP Engine Smart Search plugin from this link
• Log in to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins → Add New.
• Click the Upload Plugin button.
• Click the Choose File button, select the ZIP file you downloaded, and then click Install Now.
• Click the Activate Plugin button.

Configuring the Plugin once activated

• Navigate to the WP Engine Smart Search settings page in WP Admin
• Enter your URL and Access Token on the WP Engine Smart Search settings page
• Click save

NOTE: credentials for this plugin can only be obtained by purchasing this as an add-on as a part of your existing WP Engine Plan.
Please see wpengine.com/smart-search for details.

Reviews

Doesn’t work at all unless you’re hosted on WP Engine with a specific plan

emsixteen November 13, 2024

As the title says. I don’t understand why this is on the WP repository.

I love this plugin

John Parris November 3, 2023

This plugin makes my search results faster and more relevant. It provides relevant results even if I misspell a word. It has a lot of configuration options to let me control the way the results are organized and weighted. It’s easy to set up and just works automatically when searches are executed.

Simple and effective

Chris Wiegman November 3, 2023

The simplest solution I’ve encountered to make search actually work for my small site. With a lot of easily misspelled terms on the site (and my own lack of spelling ability) having a simple solution with fuzzy matching is so worth it.

very impressive plugin, needs “sort by” option

Ted Slater August 14, 2023

I am loving this plugin, particularly the “fuzziness” functionality. I’d love to be able to sort by reverse chronological, though, and not by however it’s currently sorting the search results.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

0.2.74

• Updated: Drop search facet in favour of the built in search inputs for WordPress and WooCommerce
• Fixed: Support for gravitysmtp plugin

0.2.73

• Updated: Removed Feature Flag for Recommendations Block
• Fixed: Dont send woo attributes with empty name
• Updated: Update header logos

0.2.72

• Added: Checkbox Facet
• Adde: Sort by fields such as Name A-Z/Z-A
• Added: Recommendations Block
• Updated: More Security updates

0.2.71

• Added: Basic support for Fusion Page Builder plugin.
• Updated: Security updates

0.2.70

• Fixed: www.remarpro.com contributor account list

0.2.69

• Added: Add post permalink to each indexed post.
• Added: Allow multiple dropdown facets on a single page.

0.2.68

• Fixed: Search Bias set to 0 in Hybrid.

0.2.67

• Fixed: Woo Commerce searching was rendering search template.

0.2.66

• Added: Support for WordPress 6.7.
• Fixed: Plugin installation tab text changed.
• Fixed: Saving Full Text Search doesn’t clear Semantic/Hybrid fields.

0.2.65

• Added: WP_Date_Query support.
• Fixed: Change how we get order and orderby.

0.2.64

• Added: Turn off search functionality while indexing.
• Fixed: Removed product meta data.
• Fixed: Catalog visibility searches out of context.
• Fixed: Taxonomies grouping not filtering results correctly on search.

0.2.63

• Fixed: Searching with empty string returns all results instead if none.
• Fixed: Pressing cancel in semantic edit fields doesn’t add the new value.
• Fixed: Requiring php files sometimes were creating an error in some environments.
• Fixed: Save button in settings page disabling incorrectly.

0.2.62

• Fixed: Prevent memory issues on large multisite.

0.2.61

• Added: Support for catalog visibility in WooCommerce.

0.2.60

• Fixed: Disabled radio cards when API returns 400.
• Fixed: Don’t show error when no AI search enabled and save Full Text Search card in configuration page.
• Added: Woo Commerce default price filtering integration.
• Added: Woo Commerce default order by integration.
• Added: Getting all WP posts now limits them to 1000 as opposed to 10000.
• Added: Disable configuration button until settings change in config page.

0.2.59

• Fixed: Indexing errors when excluding post types.

0.2.58

• Update: WP CLI progress bar for indexing.

0.2.57

• Added: Bulk indexing support.
• Updated: wp-cli command which now takes into account multisite
• Added: Improved WP_Meta_Query mappings for the LIKE operator.

0.2.56

• Added: WP_Meta_Query support.
• Added: Indexing term ids.

0.2.55

• Fixed: Multisite session issues.
• Fixed: WooCommerce loading issues.
• Added: Scaffolding Facets code.

0.2.54

• Added: Experimental WooCommerce Support.
• Added: Experimental blocks for Faceted Search.
• Added: Disable save configuration button until settings change in settings page
• Added: Show Error Messages in Configuration Page

0.2.53

• Added: Standard security headers for HTTP rest calls.
• Added: Enable Hybrid/Semantic Search for multisite.

0.2.52

• Added: Support for WordPress 6.6.

0.2.51

• Fixed: Fixed typos.

0.2.50

• Updated: Renamed Sync page to Index Data.
• Updated: Left menu items reordered – Index Data is default page now.
• Added: Settings page reworked. AI-Powered Hybrid Search page was merged into Settings pages.

0.2.49

• Fixed: WP Engine Smart Search not running for admin searches.
• Fixed: All sites are indexed in multisite.

0.2.48

• Added: Basic support for Polylang plugin.
• Fixed: Corrected inaccurate text messages.

0.2.47

• Added: UI re-skin.

0.2.46

• Added: Support for taxonomy filtering.

0.2.45

• Added: Make clear data indexing needs to be completed.
• Added: Add meta in requests when multisite.

0.2.44

• Added: Strip html tags from post_content.
• Added: Minimum multisite support. Only Network admins can sync all multisite content.
• Added: When multisite, Search Config and AI-Powered Hybrid Search pages were removed from network admin.

0.2.43

• Fixed: Filtering issues when excluding post types.
• Added: Support for WordPress 6.5.

0.2.42

• Fixed: Filtering issues when more than two terms present.

0.2.41

• Fixed: When selected fields are empty semantic search shouldn’t return results.
• Fixed: When all selected fields are unchecked for a selected post type search shouldn’t return results for this post type.

0.2.40

• Fixed: Update AI config page name and fixed typos.

0.2.39

• Fixed: Using multiple wp-graphql queries causing issues in cursor pagination.
• Fixed: When no fields are selected full text search should return 0 results.

0.2.38

• Fixed: Allow pages to be queried by default.
• Fixed: Only allow valid fields to be selectable for Semantic Search.

0.2.37

• Fixed: New error message now appears when system initialization as opposed an authentication error.

0.2.36

• Added: WPGraphQL cursor pagination support.

0.2.35

• Added: filter wpe_smartsearch/acf/excluded_field_names, for excluding ACF field names from being indexed.

0.2.34

• Added: AI Powered Search feature.

0.2.33

• Updated: The id prefix filter will now add the id prefix to indexed documents
• Updated: The id prefix filter will now add the prefix as a search filter to isolate WordPress doucments for the current site
• Added: New filter hook to allow users to exclude post types from WP Engine Smart Search

0.2.32

• Updated: WordPress compatibility: 6.4
• Updated: Security updates
• Added: Non-logged in admin calls now use WP Engine Smart Search

0.2.31

• Fixed: Pagination issues when page size is set to -1

0.2.30

• Fixed: Total found posts number was incorrect after search

0.2.29

• Fixed: UI not rendering on WP Admin

0.2.28

• Updated: Revert to old plugin file name to prevent deactivation

0.2.27

• Fixed: UI issue on v0.2.26

0.2.26

• Updated: Plugin rebranded to WP Engine Smart Search
• Added: filter wpe_smartsearch/extra_search_config_fields, for filtering the search config fields.
• Added: support for orderby queries.

0.2.25

• Added: Added filter wpe_smartsearch/extra_fields, for filtering the index fields before indexing content.
• Fixed: Show error message when 401/404 on settimgs page
• Fixed: ACF not needed user type fields filtered out during index. Including user_pass field
• Updated: WordPress compatibility: 6.3

0.2.24

• Fixed: wpe_smartsearch/id_prefix filter now shows errors on the sync page if the returned data is invalid from the filter
• Fixed: Reduce number of fields indexed by ACF

0.2.23

• Fixed: Prevented unnecessary real-time index requests which resulted in error messages

0.2.22

• Fixed: Breaking change for php7.4 users
• Added: Search meta data is now sent during search requests

0.2.21

• Fixed: Issue when unsupported fields were being indexed
• Added: Filter for adding prefix
• Updated: Cleanup old endpoints code
• Updated: Remove metadata calls

0.2.20

• Fixed: Issue when errors where not displaying properly

0.2.19

• Updated: Remove ACM support from README

0.2.18

• Added: Add excluded posts support
• Updated: Improve admin messages
• Updated: Security updates

0.2.17

• Fixed: Issue where post type revisions were being indexed.
• Fixed: Issue where unpublished data was being indexed.

0.2.16

• Fixed: Issue where search config could not be saved.

0.2.15

• Updated: Plugin now uses the new index API, This change also streamlines how data is synchronized from WordPress.
• Updated: Search config now uses the WordPress field names for post types
• Added: Support for custom taxonomies

0.2.14

• Fixed: sync issues with unsupported ACF subfields

0.2.13

• Fixed: Remove ACF keys with empty string
• Updated: Use new find API for searches

0.2.12

• Fixed: ACF issue with nested content

0.2.11

• Fixed: ACF field issue with empty values on fields

0.2.10

• Added: Extended support for ACF types

All ACF types will now be indexed and searchable except for the following, these fields are excluded:
* image
* file
* google_map
* password
* gallery

NOTE: To take advantage of this new feature, please delete and re sync your data.

0.2.8

• Fixed: Issue where assets syncing were taking too long.

0.2.4

• Updated: Update version headers.

0.2.3

• Fixed: Success toast now pops up when sync is complete.

0.2.2

• Added: WordPress HTML and REST search now work with WP Engine Smart Search.

0.2.1

• Fixed: Issue when searching multiple terms.

0.2.0

• Notice: Upgrading to this version requires re-syncing data.

0.1.52

• Fixed: Issue where ACF fields were being omitted on initial sync.

0.1.51

• Added: Feature to allow more complex searching.

0.1.50

• Fixed: Issue where weight sliders were not working.

0.1.49

• Updated: Update version headers.

0.1.48

• Fixed: Issue where post slugs were casing sync issues.

0.1.47

• Updated: Update version headers.

0.1.46

• Fixed: Issue where permalinks were casing sync issues.

0.1.45

• Fixed: Issue where parent posts were causing failed syncs.

0.1.44

• Fixed: Issue where ACM date types were causing sync issues

0.1.43

• Updated: Readme docs
• Fixed: Allow hyphens in model identifiers

0.1.42

• Updated: Update version headers

0.1.41

• Updated: Update version headers

0.1.40

• Added: Support for offset pagination

0.1.39

• Fixed: issue where field weights were not being respected in search results

0.1.38

• Updated: Version headers

0.1.37

• Reverted unintended changes to sync.

0.1.36

• Removed search unused capabilities check.

0.1.35

• Fixed Issue with nested ACF fields on CPT’s.

0.1.34

• Fixed WP Engine Smart Search not working when ACF objects are attached to CPT’s.

0.1.33

• Fixed ACF issue with empty field groups during sync.

0.1.32

• Fixed Failed sync’s due to null ACF field groups.
• Fixed Correctly order posts and pages when syncing data.

0.1.31

• Fixed Sync issues with parent terms.

0.1.30

• Fixed Sync issues with removed and re-added ACM fields.

0.1.29

• Fixed Empty ACM repeatable fields causing sync issues.
• Fixed Post featured images would cause sync to fail.

0.1.28

• Fixed ACM repeatable fields causing sync issues.
• Fixed Front-end missing wpApiSettings object.

0.1.27

• Fixed Sync issue when post types had no author.
• Fixed Sync issue when ACF fields contained dates as strings.

0.1.26

• Added UI configuration for fuziness and stemming toggle.

0.1.25

• Fixed ACM models can now be searched correctly.
• Fixed Posts with no authors will be synchronized correctly.

0.1.24

• Updated WP Engine Smart Search minimum PHP version is now 7.4

0.1.23

• Fixed Posts with empty post_name with not be synchronized

0.1.22

• Fixed: Simple Feature Request plugin breaking WP Engine Smart Search sync

0.1.21

• Fixed: Auto drafts will no longer be automatically synchronized
• Fixed: User delete events are now correctly handled
• Fixed: Tag descriptions can now be synchronized as longtext

0.1.20

• Updated: Version headers

0.1.19

• Updated: Version headers

0.1.18

• Fixed: Admin error notices correctly instruct users to sync when data sync issues occur

0.1.17

• Fixed: ACF group names search config where they were unable to be searched
• Fixed: Fuzzy queries unable to search where numbers are involved

0.1.16

• Added: Fuzzy configuration UI

0.1.15

• Added: Enable fuzzy search by default

0.1.14

• Added: Support for ACM’s email field

0.1.13

• Fixed: Breaking pagination in WP Admin views
• Added: Clear sync progress & locks when plugin is deactivated

0.1.12

• Added: Add button to delete search data
• Fixed: Sync button progress bar improvement

0.1.11

• Fixed: Sync button progress is reset when multiple tabs try to sync

0.1.10

• Fixed: Progress bar animation
• Fixed: Sync items correctly syncing

0.1.9

• Added: Sync lock to prevent more than one sync executing at a time
• Fixed: Progress calculation on sync progress bar
• Fixed: Sync can now progress when ACM is not installed

0.1.8

• Added: New sync button to sync content via plugin
• Added: Plugin Icon and Banner
• Added: Toast confirmations when saving settings
• Fixed: Importing posts via ACM
• Fixed: Styling issues on WP Engine Smart Search Settings

0.1.7

• Added toast confirmations on settings changes
• Show info to user about syncing data when plugin is activated
• Settings based scripts are now cached by the browser on WP Admin
• Search configuration regenerated on content changes
• Added validation to settings form

0.1.6

• Search fields now correctly search through content models
• Remove slug as an option from search config
• Url setting will correctly default to an empty string

0.1.5

• Added new settings page
• Added Search Config page

0.1.4

• Update WP CLI command prefix to wp as

0.1.1

• Prepare for release

0.1.0

• Add support for ACM repeater fields
• Improve error messages in wp-admin
• Sync CPT excerpt field