Daniel Bachhuber

10up

Chris Reynolds

John Spellman

Pantheon Systems

Allan Collins

Andrew Taylor

pwtyler

Josh Koenig

MikeNGarrett

Matthew Leffler

<a href="https://circleci.com/gh/pantheon-systems/solr-power" rel="nofollow ugc"></a>
Search is critical for your site, but the default search for WordPress leaves a lot to be desired. Improve your user experience with the Apache Solr search engine for your WordPress website.
<ul>
<li>Fast results, with better accuracy.</li>
<li>Enables faceting on fields such as tags, categories, author, and page type.</li>
<li>Indexing and faceting on custom fields.</li>
<li>Drop-in support for <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_Query</a> with the <code>solr_integrate</code> parameter set to true.</li>
<li>Completely replaces default WordPress search, just install and configure.</li>
<li>Completely integrated into default WordPress theme and search widget.</li>
<li>Very developer-friendly: uses the modern <a href="http://www.solarium-project.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Solarium</a> library</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
This plugin is under active development on GitHub:
<a href="https://github.com/pantheon-systems/solr-power" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/pantheon-systems/solr-power</a>
Please feel free to file issues there. Pull requests are also welcome! See <a href="https://github.com/pantheon-systems/solr-power/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md" rel="nofollow ugc">CONTRIBUTING.md</a> for information on contributing.
For further documentation, such as available filters and working with the <code>SolrPower_Api</code> class directly, please see the project wiki:
<a href="https://github.com/pantheon-systems/solr-power/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/pantheon-systems/solr-power/wiki</a>
You may notice there are two sets of tests running, on two different services:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://phpunit.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">PHPUnit</a> test suite against a Solr instance.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://behat.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Behat</a> test suite against a Pantheon site, to ensure the plugin’s compatibility with the Pantheon platform.</li>
</ul>
Both of these test suites can be run locally, with a varying amount of setup.
PHPUnit requires the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/automated-testing/phpunit/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress PHPUnit test suite</a>, and access to a database with name <code>wordpress_test</code>. If you haven’t already configured the test suite locally, you can run <code>bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root '' localhost</code>. You’ll also need access to a running Solr instance, in order to run the unit tests against Solr.
Behat requires a Pantheon site with Solr enabled. Once you’ve created the site, you’ll need <a href="https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus#installation" rel="nofollow ugc">install Terminus</a>, and set the <code>TERMINUS_TOKEN</code>, <code>TERMINUS_SITE</code>, and <code>TERMINUS_ENV</code> environment variables. Then, you can run <code>./bin/behat-prepare.sh</code> to prepare the site for the test suite.
Note that dependencies are installed via Composer and the <code>vendor</code> directory is not committed to the repository. You will need to run <code>composer install</code> locally for the plugin to function. You can read more about Composer <a href="https://getcomposer.org" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>
<h3>WP-CLI Support</h3>
This plugin has <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a> support.
All Solr Power related commands are grouped into the <code>wp solr</code> command, see an example:
<pre><code>$ wp solr
usage: wp solr check-server-settings
 or: wp solr delete [<id>...] [--all]
 or: wp solr index [--batch=<batch>] [--batch_size=<size>] [--post_type=<post-type>]
 or: wp solr info [--field=<field>] [--format=<format>]
 or: wp solr optimize-index
 or: wp solr repost-schema
 or: wp solr stats [--field=<field>] [--format=<format>]

See 'wp help solr <command>' for more information on a specific command.
</code></pre>
You can see more details about the commands using <code>wp help solr</code>:
<pre><code>**NAME**

 wp solr

**DESCRIPTION**

 Perform a variety of actions against your Solr instance.

**SYNOPSIS**

 wp solr <command>

**SUBCOMMANDS**

 check-server-settings Check server settings.
 delete Remove one or more posts from the index.
 index Index all posts for a site.
 info Report information about Solr Power configuration.
 optimize-index Optimize the Solr index.
 repost-schema Repost schema.xml to Solr.
 stats Report stats about indexed content.<h3>WP_Query Integration</h3>
</code></pre>
Use Solr in a custom WP_Query instead of querying a database. Add <code>'solr_integrate' => true</code> to the query arguments.
NOTE: Currently, only basic queries, tax_query, meta_query and date_query are supported. See <code>examples/example.custom_WP_Query.php</code> for an example.
A meta_query can use the following compare operators:
<ul>
<li><code>'='</code></li>
<li><code>'!='</code></li>
<li><code>'>'</code></li>
<li><code>'>='</code></li>
<li><code>'<'</code></li>
<li><code>'<='</code></li>
<li><code>'LIKE'</code></li>
<li><code>'NOT LIKE'</code></li>
<li><code>'IN'</code></li>
<li><code>'NOT IN'</code></li>
<li><code>'BETWEEN'</code></li>
<li><code>'NOT BETWEEN'</code></li>
<li><code>'EXISTS'</code></li>
<li><code>'NOT EXISTS'</code></li>
</ul>
(<code>'REGEXP'</code>, <code>'NOT REGEXP'</code>, and <code>'RLIKE'</code> are not supported.)
<h3>Configuration Tips</h3>

<h4>Searching by author name</h4>

To support searching by author name (e.g. where “Pantheon” would return posts authored by the “Pantheon” user), add the following to your custom <code>schema.xml</code>:
<pre><code> <copyField source="post_author" dest="text"/>
</code></pre>
<h4>Boosting relevancy score by publish date</h4>

The following guidance can be used to extend the Solr index and modify boosts beyond just this example.
To support math functions on dates, you must add a custom <code>schema.xml</code> to Solr and reindex with the new schema.
Add the following to <code>schema.xml</code>:
<pre><code> 
 
 <fieldType name="tdate" class="solr.TrieDateField" omitNorms="true" precisionStep="6" positionIncrementGap="0"/>

 
 <field name="post_date_iso" type="tdate" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />
</code></pre>
Add the following to your <code>functions.php</code> file.
<pre><code> <?php
 /**
 * Hooks into the document build process to add post date field in proper format.
 */
 function my_solr_build_document( $doc, $post_info ) {
 $post_time = strtotime( $post_info->post_date );
 // Matches format required for TrieDateField
 $doc->setField( 'post_date_iso', gmdate( 'c\Z', $post_time ) );
 return $doc;
 }
 add_filter( 'solr_build_document', 'my_solr_build_document', 10, 2 );

 /**
 * Hooks into query processor, Dismax, to add publish date boost.
 * See: https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/date-boosting-solr-drupal-search-results
 */
 function my_solr_dismax_query( $dismax ) {
 $dismax->setQueryParser( 'edismax' );
 $dismax->setBoostQuery( 'recip(abs(ms(NOW/HOUR,post_date_iso),3.16e-11,1,1))' );
 return $dismax;
 }
 add_filter( 'solr_dismax_query', 'my_solr_dismax_query' );
</code></pre>
<h4><code>is_solr_query</code> Filter</h4>

The <code>is_solr_query</code> filter controls whether Solr should be used for a specific query.
Parameters:
<ul>
<li>$enabled (bool): Indicates whether Solr should be used for the query. Defaults to true if the query is a search or if solr_integrate is set in the query.</li>
<li>$query (WP_Query): The current WordPress query object.</li>
</ul>
Return:
<ul>
<li>
bool: true to enable Solr for the query, false to disable it.
add_filter( ‘is_solr_query’, function( $enabled, $query ) { 
 if ( $query->is_category( ‘news’ ) ) { 
 return false; 
 } 
 return $enabled; 
}, 10, 2 );
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom schema file path</h4>

By default, custom schema is sourced from <code>wp-content/uploads/solr-for-wordpress-on-pantheon/schema.xml</code>. This can be overridden with an absolute path using the the <code>solr_power_customer_schema_file_path</code> filter.
Parameters: 
* $custom_schema_file_path (string): Default path to a custom schema file
Return: 
* string: Absolute path to a custom schema.xml file.
<pre><code>add_filter('solr_power_customer_schema_file_path', function($custom_schema_file_path) {
 return '/absolute/path/to/schema.xml';
});
</code></pre>
<h4>Common issues</h4>

<ul>
<li>Failing to post the schema.xml will result in an error during indexing, “Missing <code>post_date_iso</code> field.”</li>
<li>If you have the field and type in the schema, but don’t add the <code>solr_build_document</code> filter, you will get a similar error.</li>
<li>If the <code>post_date_iso</code> field is missing from the index, Solr will ignore this boost and return regular results.</li>
<li>Trying to use a regular date field for the boost query will result in an error in the request instead of results.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Explicit Commit vs Autocommit</h4>

Once solr has sent the data to the solr server, solr must COMMIT the data to the index and adjust the index and relevancy ratings accordingly before that data can appear in search results.
By default, Solr Search for WordPress has auto-commit disabled. The index is committed when the uncommitted item is two minutes old, or the cron runs. By default, the cron runs on the Pantheon platform every hour.
When autocommit is enabled, Solr Search for WordPress commits data when it sends every post. When running on Pantheon, we recommend leaving autocommit disabled to aid overall site performance.
To enable autocommit, add the following to <code>wp-config.php</code> or an mu-plugin.
<pre><code> define( 'SOLRPOWER_DISABLE_AUTOCOMMIT', false );
</code></pre>
To force-commit data outside of a normal cron run, from the command line, you can run the command below or simply force a cron-run.
<pre><code> wp solr commit
</code></pre>

Solr Search for WordPress


This plugin is intended for use with sites hosted on Pantheon, and may not work with other hosting platforms.



This plugin replaces the default search mechanism within WordPress while preserving the familiar integration methods within themes and widgets.  The plugin also included a widget that you can use to integrate with the current theme


Awesome, work !!!

Improve your user experience with the Apache Solr search engine for your WordPress website.

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Ajax Search Lite is a live search plugin for WordPress. This responsive live search engine, which will boost your user experience by providing a user friendly ajax powered search form – a live search bar. You can filter the results with the category and post type filter boxes as well. Google autocomplete and keyword suggestions also included.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qI2_iKK4n_4?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Very smooth animations with mobile device support and regular updates. Use Ajax Search Lite as a replacement for the default WordPress search with a better looking, more efficient search engine. 
Fine-tune the user experience by providing a powerful ajax search plugin to your visitors. Supports custom post types and custom fields and more. Boost your site search engine with this custom built live search engine.
<a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Home</a> | <a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/features" rel="nofollow ugc">Features</a> | <a href="https://documentation.ajaxsearchlite.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lite Docs</a> | <a href="https://documentation.ajaxsearchpro.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Docs</a>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tMde9nDQOEU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Ajax Search Lite and Ajax Search Pro does not require monthly subscriptions, does not store your data on external servers – everything is done locally, on your server.
<h4>Features List</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search in posts and pages</li>
<li>Search in custom post types such as WooCommerce Products, Events, Portfolio items and more</li>
<li>Search in title, description, excerpt, categories and tags and any custom fields</li>
<li>Archive page live loader and filter</li>
<li>Automatic search replacement as well as widget and shortcode availalbe</li>
<li>Custom Filter boxes (checkbox filters) for categories and post types</li>
<li>WPML, Polylang and QtranslateX compatible</li>
<li>10+ built in templates + options for color adjustments</li>
<li>Retina ready vectorized SVG and CSS3 icons</li>
<li>Category and post exclusions</li>
<li>Frontend search settings boxes</li>
<li>Images in search results</li>
<li>Fully ajax powered</li>
<li>50+ options on the backend</li>
<li>Caches images for faster response time</li>
<li>Performance Options</li>
<li>Google analytics integration – both as Events and Pageviews</li>
<li>Primary and Secondary ordering options</li>
<li>Highly compatible and responsive</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
Feel free to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ajax-search-lite/" rel="ugc">contact us</a> via the support forums.
<h4>In Pro version</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Front-end demo</a> | <a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/try/" rel="nofollow ugc">Back-end demo</a></li>
<li>Create multiple search bars with different configurations</li>
<li>All page builders supported (Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Breakdance, Gutenberg, Beaver etc..)</li>
<li>Search in Every custom post type</li>
<li>Search in <a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/file-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Attachments and contents</a> (PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc..)</li>
<li>Search in BuddyPress activity feed, users and group names</li>
<li>Search in PeepSo Groups and Group Activities</li>
<li>Search result grouping by categories or post types</li>
<li>Search in custom fields including repeaters and special custom field taypes</li>
<li>Predictive search results suggestions</li>
<li>WooCommerce <a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/shop-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shop search and filter</a></li>
<li>Search and filter Elementor <a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/elementor-live-filter/" rel="nofollow ugc">Loop Grid</a> and <a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/jet-engine-listing-grid-filter/" rel="nofollow ugc">JetEngine Listing Grid</a></li>
<li>Advanced caching technology – image precaching, search phrase caching</li>
<li>Category filters, custom field filters, post type filters, tag filters, taxonomy term filters and date filters</li>
<li>Checkbox, Drop-down, Multiselect, Radio, Slider and Range slider filters</li>
<li>Results grouping by category, post type or content type</li>
<li><a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/load-more-infinite-scroll/" rel="nofollow ugc">Load more and Inifinite scroll</a></li>
<li>100+ Themes – Fully configurable and editable – with theme customizer & preview window</li>
<li>4 layouts: Vertical, Horizontal, Polaroid and Isotopic (with pagination)</li>
<li>400+ Admin options </li>
<li>Google keyword suggestions and autocomplete</li>
<li>Compatibility options and features</li>
<li>Caching options & Search statistics</li>
<li>Keyword Highlighting & more…</li>
<li>Highly compatible and responsive</li>
<li><a href="https://ajaxsearchpro.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Full Features List</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Testimonials</h4>
<blockquote>
“Beyond the live search, it also makes your search much more complete. You’ll be able to include custom fields, comments, and more in your search index.” – Ben Pines – Elementor
“Consider this plugin if you’re looking for a professional live search offering.” – Tom Ewer – WPMU Dev
“Ajax Search Pro plugin gives you a live Ajax search, so much comfortable search experience” – Dragan Nikolic – Thematosoup
“As the name suggests, the core value of Ajax Search Pro is the ability to add Ajax live search to WordPress.” – Colin Newcomer – aThemes
</blockquote>

Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter

Awesome Support


A very solid plugin that offers a lot of useful features out of the box.  It's pro version however is even better. Great and quick support. Highly recommend.


A very solid plugin

The Best Ajax Live Search and Filter for WordPress. Live suggestions, Custom Post types, Custom fields, Categories, WooCommerce & Elementor support

Solr Search for WordPress vs Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter