Rating: 1 star
Admin user interface is entirely in broken Javascript.
Settings interface tells you to click a ‘Synchronise’ button which does not exist, perhaps because the Javascript is bugridden.
Settings page is broken for Elasticsearch so you can never, ever, EVER add an Elasticsearch server config.
Dropped dead on first Solr indexing error, and never continues indexing anything else ever again. Which is fine, because the actual search plugin does not return results in WordPress anyway, but instead just leaves the default SQL search in place.
Well. Done.
Oh, and the results generator isn’t compatible with PHP7.
RUN. AWAY.
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I was investigating this search plugin for a massive job and needed a few questions answered. I find this level of support impressive.
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Hi,
What is your subscription# ?
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i just downloaded your regular plugin and am trying to see if it will work
i dont have a subscription
Patrice, your help
Try here then:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/wpsolr-search-engine
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I’ll code my own plugin…
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This pattern continue even i resetting wpsolr
wp : 4.8.2
solr : 7.1.0
at step 0, validation ok, when button pressed, it said fail to ping
when press it again it said index already exist
this plugin success connect to solr, but it didn’t know his ping is reached
i can give you credential to check this if you want
i want to see this plugin can move forward
thank you
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Just wanted to say thanks for such an awesome plugin.
It’s a well written plugin and configurable.
Using the actions and filters I’m able to add more fields to filter on and more fields to index without hacking the core of the plugin.
Read the documentation for the plugin on their site.
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Video instructions are wrong. Wasted a good amount of time to figure out this plugin.
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I experience WPSolr as a highly valuable search plugin. I have a website with over 6000 products and this plugin enables my customer to execute a fast and proper search. The support team of WPSolr even helped me setup a cloud server support me when installing their plugin. My advice, if you are looking for a highly advanced and very strong search plugin than purchase the pro version and setup a server. If you are doubting about the plugin I advice you to go to the website of wpsolr and try to catch up with someone of their support team in the live chat. At least that is what helped me really well and I do not regret it!
All by all very satisfied about this plugin, excellent work!
P.S. I never write reviews unless I am really impressed.
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The Pro level plugin is robust, with loads of support of the complex search requirements our client requires in their Solr integration. The support offered has also been top-notch!
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It was not mentioned in the description that an external program (Apache Solr) needs to be installed. Moreover, that program works on Java programming language, not PHP, which is WordPress’s language.
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This plugin make working with solr very easy. The plugin is often updated, and the plugin author is excellent with support and new features
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This is a great piece of software. There’s some features missing that I hear are coming in a successor of the plugin.
At the moment the wpsolr website only provides setup instructions for solr 4.x but not for 5.x or higher, which no longer uses a java servlet container.
I want to start with a recent version of solr! Author could have saved himself and me some time and trouble.
As someone else posted setup instructions in the reviews I’m including those here as well, so new wpsolr users are more likely to find it.
If you want to set up solr 5.x using shell, see halfway this page.
For setup on a local machine, eg. windows with xampp, do this:
1. download solr 5.x from https://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/ (for windows you need .zip version)
2. extract to your server eg. c:/xampp or child folder of choice. You can also rename solr-5.x.x to anything you like
3. open a shell, cd to your solr install, then to the bin folder
4. start solr server: solr start
5. open solr admin, probably https://localhost:8983/solr/
6. goto core admin, then add core. This will create an instance with an index
7. in your explorer: goto your install folder, then into server/name-of-your-instance/conf
8. download the solr 5.x files from https://wpsolr.com/releases/ and extract into the conf folder (overwrite solrconfig.xml)
9. important: in solr core admin tab press the reload button to update the instance. This is the step I missed, and caused all kinds of errors (reindex inside wpsolr admin didn’t do the trick).
10. install/setup wpsolr plugin and configure an index. Index name can be whatever you like. Solr path should be /solr/name-of-your-instance
Then press the buttton to test/save configuration and if all is well you can proceed with indexing options in the user guide.
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Flexible, well thinked and designed.
Great plugin implementation.
Great maintainance.
I do not know if it’s clear enough: GREAT!
Rating: 5 stars
used with a self hosted solr server (solr-5.3.0). Default settings work quite well. Also you can tweak your schema.xml and solrconfig.xml to customize the results to your needs.
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wordpress 4.4.1, solr 5.4.1, works.
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Broken and not working for self hosted solr, Error in batch indexing in self hosted setup.
Fix:
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1. Go to apache site and download solr version (solr-4.7.2) and extract to /opt/solr directory in root (/) dir and provide 755 recursive permission.
3. install latest java jdk version, as solr needs java. needs sudo user to install.
sudo -s
provide sudo password to login. than you will be logged in as root user.
install java jdk
sudo apt-get install jdk
confirm java installed
javac or java –version
3. change directory to solr
cd /opt/solr/solr/bin
3. start solr server
java -jar start.jar
4. locate your browser url
you will be able to see solr admin , cool.
5. Now you will need to fix
/opt/solr/solr/collection1/conf/solrconfig.xml file
open and change this ‘<luceneMatchVersion>4.7</luceneMatchVersion>’ to
<luceneMatchVersion>4.6</luceneMatchVersion>
It will match the luence version to our solr installtion setup. we are all completed now. if you will not do this it will throw error in indexing ‘lazy_load_error’ java.
6. configure wpsolr with solr details:
Index name: whateveer you want
Solr Protocol: http
Solr host: localhost
Solr port: 8983
Solr path: /solr
And click “Check Solr Status, then Save this configuration” button a green arrow will show, means all cool. now check uncheck page,post ,cateogry , taxonomy to index, than go to “solr indexing batch” tab and
click “Synchronize WordPress with ‘Config’ ” button it will index all new changes to solr.
7. Search in custom pages or post:
shortocde: [solr_search_shortcode]
Hurry !! ??
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Great plugin!
Have used it to index over 1 million data in a custom WP application and the results have been fantastic. The support too, even though it is free, is very responsive and if there is a feature request it is for sure added in next releases of the plugin.
Overall, kudos to your team for bringing out such a plugin and making SOLR integration with WP such a breeze!
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Thank you bringing awesome plugin!
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Great plugin, easy setup. Under active development. Thanks!
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Been using WordPress for a long time now, but never commented on any plugin. I created a account www.ads-software.com just to give this plugin a 5 star review. Not just because the plugin works as advertised, but also because of the outstanding support given by the author.
Great job.
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Solr can be a bit tricky but this plugin makes it very simple to use on your WP site.
I had some issues (that were related to my own content) and the Solr support was outstanding in walking through it all, step by step, until they resolved the issue.
And it’s important to note – the issue was a problem with my content that Solr wasn’t liking very much but, because I was using WPSolr, they were kind enough to resolve it for me!
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We’ve asked for informations and they responded by developing a new version for our needs. Very helpful. We’ll ask again ??
Many thanks
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Excellent. One word.
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I’ve just setup and tested the Solr plugin, it worked perfectly.
I now can enjoy facets + autocomplete + suggestions.
I decided to bypass the painful Solr server installation, by using a Solr hosting provider.
Thanks.
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