great software but needs some documentation

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.