Luis Godinho

Hi Erik,
Let me have a look into some of the queries. I think I can optimize a little bit thus not consuming such resources for 30K+ posts installations. I’ll have a new version available soon.

Cool!

Line 84 is needed to bypass the default WordPress search query. If you comment out that you’re telling WordPress to continue the query using the search terms…

You check class-search-plus.php line 29 you’ll see add_filter('get_search_query', array($this, 'gomo_sp_return_search_query'), 1); . This is used to tell WordPress get_search_query() function what are the searched terms.

Following what I’m using on some of my themes search template and it is working correctly:

<h1><?php echo get_search_query(); ?></h1>

Please check again. If problem persists let me know.

Hi,

gSearch Plus, improve WordPress search, will search through all the taxonomies (if not excluded on the plugin settings page). It will return all the posts where it can find taxonomy terms similar to search terms.

Hi nwtd,

This is a very elegant solution and opens the door to heavy stuff with WordPress!

When I proposed that code to you (inspired on WP_query codex page) I wasn’t sure if it would work using this philosophy in the pre_get_posts hook. On my setup was already fast but I’m happy that it completely solved at your end!

Hi Alma

Please update to version 1.0.4 of this plugin. Sorry for the inconvenience.
If you like this plugin I invite you to rate it!

Cheers

Hi Alma

Sorry for the late answer. It seems the Sitemap for Stella doesn’t ‘like’ the free version of Stella plugin. I’ll get back to you shortly.

please update to 1.1.4
Cheers

You’re right, in some conditions it doesn’t work well. If searched terms match the full content of custom fields then it works, otherwise, it doesn’t. I’ve nailed the issue and I’ll publish a new minor release.

Thanks again for posting this bug.

Hi oomskaap,

Thanks for posting your request. I’m always open to improve this plugin and add more features to it.

Sadly, you’re asking me to add a very specific feature into a plugin which was built to be ‘simple and easy to use’. It is my personal opinion that the majority of the websites won’t use the feature you’re requesting.

I’ve been thinking to add in a future release a full sentence search mode, if user searches by “word1 word2” using quotes. This can be useful for your website since it will narrow the search results of “xperia z” into the exact product post.

In the end, if you really think this is a major ‘must have’ to your website, I can develop a customised add-on for you. For this matter email me.

It was an issue with beginning and end spaces on the search sentence. Thanks for reporting the issue.

Please update to version 1.1.2

Yes, I can reproduce it. I’ll check it now.

Thanks for the nice words.
The idea was to develop an easy to use plugin, following the WordPress APIs (so without any SQL direct queries and new DB tables)… The good news are I am getting more and more reviews saying it is faster than other Search plugins which is great!

Hi Li-An

Thanks for the review. Indeed gSearch doesn’t give priority to recent posts neither to title. Both can be included easily in a next release.

As per the excerpt issue, gSearch was designed to be less intrusive than other search plugins. This means, no extra tables in WordPress database, no direct SQL queries, no changes in search.php template. Also, the idea was to make a simple and easy to use plugin. All code respects WordPress APIs and standard installation. I’ll have a look into the plugin’s code to see if the excerpt suggestion can be implemented without creating a mess.

And of course, simplicity has a prize…Speed!!

Thanks again for your review.

I found out a conflit between WordPress jQuery version and the highlight js script on version 1.1.0. Corrected on version 1.1.1, works on my installation. Hope it works in yours. I also found out conflicts with Jetpack plugin, which I couldn’t solve till now.