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Total downloads: 6,646
Active installs: 50
Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 4.5
Support threads opened: 1
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 12/3/2025 (28 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/28/2023 (2 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 8.1

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 28 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 2 reviews

60/100

Is WPSOLR — AI and keyword search with Docker abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 28 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 8.1

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Description

Option 1 – Install a search engine on-premise with Docker

Option 2 – Using Cloudways? Use their pre-installed search engine service for Elasticsearch 8.x or Opensearch2.x

Option 3 – Alternatively, use the wizard to connect with OpenSolr

If you cannot install Docker search, our wizard will configure your WordPress search with:
– A trial Apache Solr index hosted by Opensolr
– Ajax search & autocompletion
– Facets (filters)
– Related posts.

Option 4 – More features with a subscription

Consider our flagship plugin WPSolr Enterprise
– WooCommerce In/out of stock, attribute variations, price variations, add to basket in suggestions, order/coupon search in back-end.
– AI connectors for RAG and ChatBots Export WordPress data to feed any AI system in real-time: AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Kafka, Amazon SQS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Run.
– Manage more than one engine. For instance, Elasticsearch for back-end search, Weaviate AI for front-end search, Solr for suggestions, Recombee for AI Recommendation widgets.
– AI search personalization Algolia AI search personalize, Google Retail search personalization.
– AI recommendations Algolia Recommend, Amazon Personalize, Recombee, Google Retail AI Personalization.
– Enterprise hosting providers Amazon Opensearch, Solr Opensolr, Solr Searchstax, Opensearch & Elasticsearch Bonsai, Algolia, Elasticsearch Elastic, Google Retail, Recombee.
– Advanced filters and facets Hierarchy tree, slider, range, select, select2, color picker, data picker.
– …

Installation

  1. Upload the wpsolr-free folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a trial for the extensions ?

Yes, we added a 7 days trial for all packs (AI, bbPress, Woocommerce, WPML, Polylang, Types, ACF, ..). Download WPSOLR PRO trial, then follow https://www.wpsolr.com/knowledgebase/how-to-activate-a-license-pack/.

What is the installation procedure for Solr on Windows ?

!!! Important: always reload the index in your Solr admin UI after each install/change of file schema.xml

A tutorial at WPSOLR: Solr 4.x

A tutorial at WordPress support: Windows, Solr 5.x/6.x

What is the installation procedure for Solr on linux ?

!!! Important: always reload the index in your Solr admin UI after each install/change of file schema.xml

A tutorial at WordPress support: Linux, Solr 4.x

A tutorial at Linode: Linux, Solr 4.x

For Linux, Solr 6.1.0 (tested). Replace 6.1.0 with your current Solr version.

wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/6.1.0/solr-6.1.0.tgz
tar xvf solr-6.1.0.tgz
solr-6.1.0/bin/solr start
solr-6.1.0/bin/solr create -c wpsolr-6.1.0
(download solr 5.xx config files from https://www.wpsolr.com/kb/apache-solr/apache-solr-configuration-files)
cp solrconfig.xml schema.xml solr-6.1.0/server/solr/wpsolr-6.1.0/conf/
(reload index with solr admin UI)
(configure a new index in wpsolr admin UI:
Index name: wpsolr - local 6.1.0
Solr Protocol: http
Solr host: localhost
Solr port: 8983
Solr path: /solr/wpsolr-6.1.0
)
(index posts on wpsolr admin UI, including a pdf file)
(search in posts, retrieve the pdf)

Which PHP version is required ?

PHP >= 8.1

Which Apache Solr version is supported ?

Solr 9.x

Can I have my Apache Solr server hosted ?

Yes, on Gotosolr Solr hosting.

Gotosolr Solr hosting tutorial

sitepoint tutorial on Gotosolr Solr hosting with WPSOLR

How do I install and configure my own Apache Solr server ?

Please refer to our detailed Installation Guide.

What version of Solr does the WPSOLR PRO plugin need?

WPSOLR PRO plugin is compatible with the following Solr versions. But if you were going with a new installation, we would recommend installing Solr version 3.6.x or above.

Do you offer support?

You can raise a support question for our plugin from wordpress.org.

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Changelog

24.1

24.0.2

  • (fix) Remove Monolog from dependencies

24.0.1

24.0

  • (fix) OpenSearch shard and replication
  • (fix) OpenSearch logs warning

23.9.1

  • (new) Vespa.ai vector/hybrid/keywords search

23.9

  • (new) 60 seconds configuration wizard with free opensolr.com hosting

23.8

  • (new) Related posts with Weaviate: retrieve semantically similar posts, with extra filters.
  • (new) Related posts with Elasticsearch: retrieve text similar posts (More Like This), with extra filters.
  • (new) Related posts with OpenSearch: retrieve text similar posts (More Like This), with extra filters.
  • (new) Related posts with Solr: retrieve text similar posts (More Like This), with extra filters.
  • (fix) Fix missing $ajax_delay_ms initialization

23.7

  • (new) Add settings to use any jQuery-Autocomplete option with suggestions
  • (new) Add post excerpt to boosts
  • (new) Index taxonomy’s featured image url for helping catalog discovery in external tools like Algolia

23.6

  • (new) Index featured image url for helping catalog discovery in external tools
  • (fix) real-time indexing not working on creation
  • (fix) SQL full-text search should not be executed
  • (fix) Random sort with Elasticsearch
  • (fix) Deprecated parse_str()

23.5

  • (Fix) Solr syntax error with facets containing ” and ”
  • (Fix) Facets containing “:” are not selected
  • (fix) Facets javascript error in backend search when several views

23.4

  • (deprecation) Deprecated Elasticsearch server 7.x version. Requires Elasticsearch server 8.x version
  • (php client) Update Elasticsearch PHP client from version 7. to version 8.
  • (new) Weaviate GPT4All vectorizer
  • (new) Self-signed node certificate setting for docker OpenSearch SSL
  • (new) Self-signed node certificate setting for docker Elasticsearch SSL
  • (new) Self-signed node certificate setting for docker Apache Solr SSL
  • (new) Self-signed node certificate setting for docker Weaviate SSL
  • (new) Button to clone index settings
  • (fix) Option to switch Solarium client from http to curl
  • (fix) Weaviate slider (numeric and dates),and range, facets
  • (fix) Weaviate sort on archive taxonomies

23.3

23.1

  • Tested with PHP 8.1 and WordPress 6.2.2
  • (new) Set horizontal/vertical orientation on views’ facets. For instance, choose horizontal facets on admin search and vertical on front-end search.
  • (fix) Boost categories does not work
  • (fix) Wrong archive results with duplicated category names
  • (fix) Filters are wrongly showing results with partial matching
  • (Fix) Fix some “utf-8-middle-byte” errors with mb_substr()

23.0

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