EffectIO SearchWP Live Ajax Search 1.8.3

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Released on: 2025-03-12

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SearchWP Live Ajax Search is a powerful WordPress plugin that addresses the shortcomings of the native WordPress search function. With SearchWP, you can experience an awesome search functionality on your website, allowing your visitors to find what they’re looking for effortlessly.

One of the biggest challenges with WordPress search is its inability to recognize custom fields and post meta. However, SearchWP seamlessly integrates with your theme, ensuring that all valuable data, including custom fields and post meta, become searchable instantly. This means that no valuable content will be overlooked.

SearchWP goes beyond basic text search by allowing you to refine and customize the data during indexing. You have the flexibility to extract text from various document formats like PDF, Office files, and plain/rich text uploaded to the WordPress Media library, making the content within those files searchable. The search results even include the Media Library titles and direct links to the corresponding entries.

Moreover, SearchWP has been designed to accommodate almost any local database table. This means that you can index and make searchable content from virtually any source, providing comprehensive and accurate search results.

Implementing SearchWP requires no coding skills, and it seamlessly integrates with your existing keyword search form and results template. Unlike traditional WordPress search, SearchWP delivers results based on relevance, eliminating the frustration of missing content and inaccurate sorting.

With SearchWP, you have access to valuable search data, allowing you to create content that your readers are actively searching for. You can also customize search results for important terms, ensuring that your visitors find what they need.

As an alternative, you can acquire SearchWP and other premium WordPress plugins through EffectIO, a trusted and cost-saving update channel. EffectIO offers GPL code, premium support, and the convenience of updating your plugins through the EffectIO Dashboard, with all items coming pre-activated.

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1. Enhanced search functionality for WordPress websites.
2. Comprehensive indexing of custom fields and post meta data.
3. Seamless integration with your theme.
4. Extract text from various document formats for search.
5. Integration of document search results into template.
6. Ability to index content from virtually any local database table.
7. Improved relevance-based search results.
8. Customization of search results for important terms.

By leveraging SearchWP, you can optimize the search experience on your WordPress website, ensuring that your visitors find what they need quickly and efficiently. With the support of EffectIO, you have access to premium plugins, including SearchWP, and enjoy exclusive deals with discounts ranging from 30 to 90 percent.

Enhance your search forms with live search, powered by SearchWP (if installed)

1.8.3
  • Prevents issues with caching plugins in some cases.
  • Adds support for loading a custom template from a user specified directory path.
1.8.2
  • Fixes integration with Relevanssi Premium.
1.8.1
  • Fixes incorrect results when using a Live Search custom template in some cases.
1.8.0
  • Adds Search Forms.
  • Adds support for SearchWP custom search sources.
  • Improves existing and adds new customizations to the Live Ajax Search settings page.
  • Updates translation files.
  • Fixes Settings link location in the plugins list when SearchWP is activated.
1.7.6
  • Changes settings page appearance and menu structure to work seamlessly with a current version of SearchWP.
1.7.5
  • Changes visual style of admin settings page to match the current version of SearchWP.
1.7.4
  • Fixes widget Advanced settings button disappear without revealing the settings in some cases.
  • Fixes body content override if the custom parent element is set in the configuration.
1.7.3
  • Adds In-plugin notification system to get the latest updates from SearchWP.
1.7.2
  • Adds a compatibility with the upcoming version of the SearchWP Modal Search Form plugin.
  • Fixes an issue with a legacy version of the SearchWP plugin.
1.7.1
  • Fixes the translations of the plugin.
1.7.0
  • Adds new Settings admin page to control the behavior of the plugin easier.
  • Introduces significant code refactoring to improve performance.
1.6.3
  • Improves sanitization of the 'swpengine' search field argument.
  • Standardizes direct access restrictions in classes throughout the plugin.
1.6.2
  • Limits the arguments passed to the query when used with the WordPress native search.
1.6.1
  • Fixes PHP Notice introduced in 1.6.0
1.6.0
  • Adds support search form block in block editor (Gutenberg)
1.5.0
  • Adds support for post_status, post_type, and posts_per_page query vars when not using SearchWP
  • Updates translation source, updates translations with fixed textdomain
  • Refactored bundle process
  • Updates bundle dependencies
1.4.6
  • Adds compatibility for SearchWP 4
1.4.5
  • Fixes an issue with quoted phrase support
  • Fixes an issue with post types that are excluded from search when registered (applies only to searches with SearchWP)
1.4.4
  • Fixes an issue with bundle.js in some cases
1.4.3
  • Improves SearchWP compatibility by suppressing filters when SearchWP performs the search
  • Compatibility fix with SearchWP Modal Search Form
1.4.2
  • Fixes an issue (JavaScript error) when a custom configuration disables the spinner
1.4.1
  • Fixes an issue that may have prevented spinner customizations from being applied correctly
1.4
  • Removes post type from default results template
  • Fixes an issue with HTML entities in search string
  • Updates translation source and translations
  • Updates bundler build process
  • Updates a11y where applicable
  • Automatically cancels pending searches when search input is changed
1.3.1
  • Fixes typo in results template function call
1.3.0
  • Many a11y improvements (props @geoffreycrofte)
  • Adds message when minimum characters have not been reached
  • Added German translation (props @stefan-meier)
  • Added Polish translation (props @boguslawski-piotr)
  • Added Dutch translation (props Stefan G.)
  • Updated translation source
1.2.0
  • Reworked build process to be more straightforward
  • Support script debugging (props mgratch)
  • Remove form action requirement to better integrate with other code (props mgratch)
  • Fixed an issue that prevented search from firing when re-entered too fast (props pierrestoffe)
1.1.8
  • Added configuration option to prevent AJAX cancellation when Enter key is pressed
  • Added some actions to make customization easier
  • Added filter to customize location of results template
1.1.7
  • Fixed an issue with missing engine name
1.1.6
  • Fixed an issue that prevented multiple live search instances on a single page from using different engines
1.1.5
  • Fixed an issue where results_destroy_on_blur was not properly applied if a custom configuration was used but that property was not defined in the custom configuration
1.1.4
  • Added a number of JavaScript events to facilitate further extension/integration
1.1.3
  • Fixed an issue with the build process which introduced an outdated version of the plugin JavaScript assets
1.1.2
  • No longer limit results to built in post types
  • Added results_destroy_on_blur config option to prevent automatic removal of results window when clicking outside results pane
1.1.1
  • Fixed an issue that prevented SearchWP Supplemental engines from showing up in the Widget config
  • Added French translation
  • Added Serbian translation
1.1
  • Define default post statuses when using WordPress native search
  • New filter `searchwp_live_search_query_args` to manipulate query args before searches
  • Fixed an offset when positioning results on top of the search field
1.0.6
  • PHP Warning cleanup
1.0.5
  • New action: `searchwp_live_search_alter_results`
  • Adds Relevanssi support (based on Dave's WordPress Live Search's implementation)
1.0.4
  • Corrected the default results template folder name to be `searchwp-live-ajax-search` as is in the documentation
  • Improvement: hide the results box when query is emptied (props Lennard Voogdt)
  • Fixed an issue with Media not showing in results when integrated with SearchWP
1.0.3
  • Fixed an issue where a false set of no results would be returned (props Lennard Voogdt)
1.0.2
  • Resolved an issue where hitting Enter/Return prevented the search query from being passed to the results page
  • Fixed potential false positive for DOING_AJAX (props justinsainton)
  • Removed unnecessary call to get_the_ID() in the default results template (props justinsainton)
  • Added escaping to permalink and post type name in the default results template (props justinsainton)
  • Utilize a WordPress core translated string instead of a custom one (props justinsainton)
  • Increase the priority for the get_search_form filter so as to accommodate existing filters
1.0.2
  • Added Serbo-Croatian translation (props Andrijana Nikolic)
1.0.1
  • Fixed a directory URL issue
  • Fixed an indexOf JavaScript error
1.0
  • Initial release!

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