File Storage Database That’s Searchable on WordPress site

  • I have a utilities company that’s a client, and due to regulations, they must have so many year’s worth of documents available for public consumption. They want to add these to their website and make them searchable as well. But, these pdf files are huge and if I upload five year’s worth, it will just bog down the site.

    Is there a plugin or service out there that can host documents on another database but still be searchable within the website?

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  • Topher

    (@topher1kenobe)

    Simply adding the PDFs to your site shouldn’t slow it down. You could upload them all via FTP and use the plugin “Add From Server” to sideload them into the media library and it would go super fast.

    Once they’re in there, “SearchWP” will search them. It’ll need to index them first, which might take a long time, maybe days, depending on how many you have, but once that’s done it should search across them quite quickly.

    Aside from that, you could look at Algolia, which offloads the search and would be super fast, though not free. https://www.algolia.com/doc/integration/wordpress/indexing/setting-up-algolia/?client=php

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