Eva Silvertant

I checked my review on Better Search, and realized it wasn’t one of their devs that recommended WP Fulltext Search, but yourself. I guess I anticipated it being a true and tested solution for Better Search, but it did not address the issue. If it did, then the space it takes in the database would have been justified.

I can appreciate that the WP ecosystem is complex and that plugins conflict with each other, but I don’t have the time to figure out what your plugin might be conflicting with. I was looking for a solution, not to make your plugin work.

If as you imply there are often conflicts between search plugins, then I recommend looking into possible conflicts with Better Search.

@ajay I know I can tune it, and I tried, but I still don’t get the search results in the order I want. With Ivory Search I get perfect search results, but I don’t like it in terms of the functionality of the search field.

@epsiloncool I installed the plugin and indexed, but the order of the search results remains the same. However, now the search results also show that my search keyword is missing, even though it’s both in the title and mentioned in the article. I’m not entirely sure if this is something new after installing the plugin, but I never saw it before. Either way, that is not helpful.

I see the grouped footnotes bug is fixed now, so I’m comfortable using that feature again. I’m so happy with this plugin! I changed the rating accordingly.

★★★★★

Thanks for bringing back the arrows! It makes sense to have the numbers and arrows linked together, too.

The only problem left is the dead links when more than 3 instances of the same reference are grouped together.

Also, I just noticed the numbers in the list of references are now links, and the arrows have been removed. Could you include an option to toggle that on or off? Because I thought the way it was, was perfect. I’m not too keen on what it looks and functions like now. Making the numbers into links doesn’t look right, and intuitively I wouldn’t have guessed that clicking on them brings me up to the article; whereas the arrows made it immediately clear that this is what it would do.

I feel you have decreased usability with the recent update.

Hello Mark,

Some of the issues we were having, my web developer managed to fix by turning the plugin off on certain pages, I think. To that end, it would be nice to have the choice of which pages the plugin is active on, because in my case it only needs to be active on blog posts.

But the issue with the grouped links persists. For each grouped link, only the first two footnotes actually link to the references at the bottom; all other links still don’t bring you to the bottom.

I will gladly give 5 stars once this issue has been fixed.