Rating: 5 stars
Remember you won’t find better than this search plugin
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Alexey went above and beyond in helping me solve a problem for one of my clients. I looked everywhere for a full text search plugin that would search thru external documents (not documents in the WordPress Media Library, but on the server). Importing almost 2,000 PDF files into the WordPress Media Library was unacceptable. Alexey and I corresponded via Email and Forum for over a week, with Alexey answering all my questions. He even sent me some custom code to solve a particular issue. Client is happy, I am happy.
Thank you, Alexey!
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Да, плагину тяжело до такого гиганта, как Sphinx\Manticore, однако свою задачу он выполняет на все 100% при это почти не расходуя ресурсов. Почти каждый сайт при разработке идет при сопровождении этого плагина. Не хватает документации, но кто ищет, тот всегда найдет.
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I evaluated WPFTS on a few demo and staging sites with an eye toward buying pro. I really wanted it to beat out the other options I’ve been testing.
I gave it 3.5 stars and round down because the review interface says 3 stars is “Good” and 4 stars is “Great,” and for my use cases, that’s what it is.
I really like that WPFTS uses the standard WP Query loop. This should ensure compatibility with pretty much every page builder and other plugins.
WPFTS indexed 2383 items on a site with a few hundred posts, and it took a very, very long time. Hosted on Flywheel.
The plugin needs options to select post types for indexing. It’s not good to balloon the index with posts that should not appear in search results. There’s no need to index media files, for example, if attachment pages are disabled (e.g., with an SEO plugin). This is a standard option in the UI of other search plugins.
I like the “cluster” search weighting scheme for customization, but a cluster for each taxonomy should probably be included by default. This is a standard option in the UI of other search plugins.
The option to index taxonomy terms would also be good. Indexing archive pages can be important if your theme is set up like that. Relevanssi Pro will index taxonomy terms (categories, tags and custom taxonomies). Searching for taxonomy term name will return the taxonomy term page.
Custom field integration with ACF/Meta Box requires custom coding. Other search plugins have this built in.
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I couldn’t use it in this case, but I got a refund. It did cost me some trouble, because their contact form wasn’t working.
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This plugin does an amazing job, searching in our uploaded PDF files, in Armenian language. We purchased the Pro version and I came here to write about how amazing, fast and helpful is the support team. Good job!
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I installed this plugin in order to facilitate the search when looking for something that was in the content of a document. However, from the moment I installed this plugin, whenever I add a new document to the website, it is very slow because it is running the indexing simultaneously with the upload. I was told that it would be possible to have the plugin do the indexing asynchronously and that it would take a few days. However, months have passed and still no answer. Still with regard to this matter, whenever I tried to talk to them, which happens almost daily, no one answered me.
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This plugin was recommended to me by one of the devs of Better Search if I remember correctly. I wasn’t happy with the search results quality of Better Search, and he indicated that WP Fulltext Search might improve the results.
I installed it, built the index, and the search results stayed exactly the same. No improvements whatsoever, nor any observable differences.
I still kept the plugin, thinking it must have improved something. But then I started not being able to find certain images in the Media gallery when I searched on terms I knew were present in the gallery. I had no idea what caused this.
Today, our web developer indicated that WP Fulltext Search has created database tables that take up 50% of the total size of our database contents, and using the wrong prefixes. This made me decide to uninstall WP Fulltext Search, because why keep something that doesn’t do what I got it for, and takes up so much space (not) doing it?
And guess what? After uninstalling WP Fulltext Search, the Media gallery search works perfectly again!
This plugin may work for some people. For us, it has only caused problems and offered not a single noticeable improvement.
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I have been looking for an advanced search plugin that can handle > 50.000 posts, is reasonably fast & accurate AND is no hog on server resources. As an online newspaper with an open archive, we just need a reliable search.
What can I say? WPFTS absolutely RULEZ! We started with about 50.000 posts: yeah, it took some hours to build the index ?? Despite the very long running time of the process, it went flawless. After generating the index, the plugin worked right out of the box. It is VERY fast, even now as we crossed the 100.000 posts margin!
It gives us exactly what we need: highly relevant results, sorted by date, with amazing speed.
Also very nice: the Google-like presentation of the results, with snippet and highlighted search term. Bravo!
And since you can turn a WP search into an RSS-feed, we can offer highly specialized feeds which we can automatically feed into special-interest facebook groups, thus vastly expanding our reach.
One last word about the support: I have to give it an A+
Simply outstanding! Timely and competent, and a fun to work with. Keep up the good work, Alexey!
Alex Dittrich,
Founder & Editor in Chief of “Der Neue Wiesentbote” Online Newspaper
Rating: 5 stars
A good plugin and the best support! So incredible!
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The plugin is simply excellent in enabling searches for pretty much any term (including custom taxonomies and metadata), while support is fast, positive, and helpful.
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This is the best plugin full text search even try.
MUST EVEN PLUGIN!
The support is incredibile and professional!
Now we finally can search inside all PDF files on our huge client website.
Buy to PRO !!
Giacomo
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If I could give this 10 stars I would! This is truly one of the best value plugins I have seen in all my time using WordPress!
First – for the ROI on price, the functionality you get is amazing! The ability to search through documents and be presented with the results is fantastic! We have archives of documents that were not indexable until now. Setting this up was a matter of installing, and clicking a few buttons. It could not be any easier.
Next – In truth, I did run into some issues on the site I installed this on. However, the issues were due to poor coding on a custom theme. I inherited a site and the results I expected were not shown. Support from the developer was better than top-notch! Getting updated code, online chat, and support, and getting hotfixes blew away any expectations I had. I could not have asked for better support. In fact, unless he was sitting at my desk next to me, I cannot imagine better support.
This plugin will be going on every site we use!!
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The plugins works well and support is super quick and effective!
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Love the plugin, wishful thinking that one day they will have a faceted search as well.
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Very collaborative, helpful and quickly support.
I have troubleshooting with Avada theme and they have solved it in less than 24 hours.
The plugin works better than expected, highly recommended.
Rating: 5 stars
Highly recommended. I was trying ajax search which failed in attached pdf search while WP FullText Search delivered what I expected.
I have never ever experienced such attitude to potentional customer. When using trial version, Alexey (the developer) spent some hours with advice how to set up and configure plugin so that it works without glitches with PDF Embedder and other plugins I am using.
His help saved probably hundreds of hours with creation of my web site. I must say again – unbelievable, I am impressed as never in my life.
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1 star is the minimum rating.
And for plugin developer Effort, I give 2 stars.
I was thinking it will be good plugin to extend the search function better than the ‘WP Extended Search’ plugin. But this is the Worst plugin. It’s working 0% as expected.
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I’m super happy to have been helped with minimum response time and judicious guidance to make even better use of this gem of a plugin!
Unconditioned recommendation.
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Finding products with Guttenberg has never been easier. Thanks!
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My new favorite plugin & Rockstar Support team.
Alexey made my day to fix an ennoying issue with Divi with a clear instruction.
Now we finally can search inside all PDF files on our huge client website.
You need a PRO version for PDF search but the massive improvement for both site owner and visitor is undeniable.
So, if you happen to host a website with a lot of content. Go Pro!
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Very collaborative and helpful service. I am a novice so it was very helpful for me to be able to contact the developer for help. I messaged on their homepage and they got back to me very quickly. I needed some help to create search parameters that only resulted in pdf and page results for search and I AM NOT a PHP expert. They helped me on both counts and i learned a lot in the process.
Highly recommended. I purchased the pro license it is well worth the money!
UPDATE; just when you think it cannot get any better it does. I had an issue with a conflict between this plugin and WP Smush and the developer took the time to figure it out and solve the problem. AWESOME SERVICE.
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Alexey was really helpful with getting the excerpts working with my Bento theme by creating an installable add-on. After that he created another add-on for the integration with Memphis Docs. The WPFTS search results page offers wonderful working configurable excerpts now, and links to indexed documents in Memphis Docs library. Searching is running smoothly now, in long text posts and many document types as well. No other plugin is needed! Your sublime help is very much appreciated, Alexey! Merry Christmas! ??
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Great plugin, works like a charm! After contacting him, the author showed great interest and deep understanding of the matter and he was more than helpful!
Highly recommended!
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I installed this plugin as a possible alternative to Solr or Sphinx powered search plugins because not having to manage them would be a big plus.
Before I get to the reason for 2 stars, I’ll say that the author did a really good job on the backend. It was very low-friction to set up, and the AJAX indexing interface is stellar.
Unfortunately, this plugin has 2 major issues that I discovered:
1. We only have roughly 20k posts. The plugin, however, decided that the number is “In Index: 312044 posts,” and it took several days to spin up this index. I don’t know how it’s possible (maybe it doesn’t disregard revisions or something, which is a pretty big omission), but changing anything at all about indexing that would require a reindex suddenly becomes prohibitively expensive.
2. More importantly, the search speed is only improved in some cases, whereas in others it gets worse in my tests. A simple search for “table” took 55 seconds (our Linode servers are pretty beefy, it’s not a slow shared hosting env or something). Searching for something like “black” or “white” took about 6s with the plugin on, and about 1.8s with WP’s own search.
Perhaps there’s a missing db index or two somewhere, but right now the plugin gets a fail from me.
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This plugin is very helpful for me. I am using it in almost any project, because it sufficiently increase search speed and additionally I can implement search by any post-related data. Sometimes I need to search by dynamically-generated data and this plugin can do it very fine.
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