WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search

1.80.280

• Fixed SQL injection vulnerability (IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX!)
• Improved compatibility with WP 7.0
• Numerous bugs were fixed

1.79.274

• Security fix to close non-critical breach

1.79.270

• Approved compatibility with WordPress 6.8

1.79.269

• Made plugin description user-friendly

1.79.268

• Added a support for WP native core/post-excerpt block
• Sufficiently improved an IRules statistics calculation speed to prevent multiple runs when several admins are working on WordPress
• Fixed a security breach in AJAX request processing code

1.79.264

• Fixed a potential security breach in updateindex AJAX request

1.79.262

• Added Gutenberg WP Blocks support (WPFTS Live Search Widget is now available for block themes)
• Added request protection (nonce) for Rebuild Index AJAX Request and Try DB Update Request. Huge thanks to @Mika from PatchStack for discovering this!
• Added Stemming support for query words.
• Improved Divi Theme compatibility support.
• Fixed Notice in Smart Excerpts sorting algorithm.

1.78.258

• Added compatibility hook functionalities for themes
• Fixed a bug with “score” value preventing it from displaying

1.77.256

• Fixed a problem with memory_limit value conversion when it’s given in Gigabytes (G).
• Fixed a problem with “style” and “script” tags removal from the indexing when the corresponding option is set.

1.76.254

• Fixed some issues with autocomplete (Live Search Widget functions)

1.75.250

• Increased core algorithm search speed (especially for popular words)
• Added “Relevance Finetune” Settings. Alpha version, try with care.

1.74.247

• Fixed possible loop while updating DB and error happen
• Added detailed info on DB update fail so admin can ask technical support (us) what to do
• Fixed “Check Rules” link (was wrong for websites with /subfolder/ URLs)

1.73.245

• Fixed some issues with database syncronization
• Fixed some notices appeared on PHP8.3+
• Added support for sub-index records

1.72.240

• Fixed wrong database structure syncronization while plugin updates (thanks to Rafael Fischmann / @rfischmann !)

1.71.238

• Added Smart Text Fragments functionality that allows to see clicked sentences on the full post page and highlights searched words (still in alpha)
• Added an ability to limit query log size via Analytics / Query Log / Settings

1.70.236

• Fixed CSRF Vulnerability detected by Majed Refaea (thanks a lot!)

1.69.234

• Fixed XSS Vulnerability detected by justakazh and Majed Refaea (thanks, guys!)

1.68.232

• Urgent fix for MySQL older versions: VARCHAR index size limit.

1.67.231

• Changed logo and style of the plugin
• Fixed warning in indexer (no finish_ts variable found)
• Fixed indexing on bad words found (some non-latin words incorrectly indexed by MySQL that’s why inserting to the vectors table failed)
• IRules logic changed to be compatible with the wpfts_irule/filters
• Fixed plugin styling on non-english WP installations (the plugin admin interface was completely broken in NL, for example)
• Added support for non-string chunks

1.65.225

This release is a result of a lots of improvements, fixes and updates.

• The internal code structure has been improved to make it easier to read and edit
• Improved compatibility with the latest version of WordPress
• Enormous work has been done to increase code security
• Added support for indexing rules
• Added the ability to configure post_type and post_status to create the main index
• Added check and warning if the amount of script memory is insufficient for correct operation
• Fixed errors in the operation of presets
• Fixed errors in fast search in the WordPress control panel
• Fixed errors in logging search queries
• Added processing of special clusters __debug and __used_rules
• Script execution session time increased to 60 seconds when indexing (if allowed by your hosting provider)
• Improved plugin performance with PHP8.3.6
• The Flare service now automatically reconnects when the connection is lost, and if the connection is successful, it blocks AJAX ping to relieve the server from frequent AJAX requests.

1.61.215

• Added Flare re-connection to prevent falling back to the polling scheme after some time or when network lost
• Fixed broken “default search logic” setting
• Added experimental “Indexing Rules” tab

1.60.213

• Fixed Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability issue in WPFTS :: Live Search widget. Thanks to Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_ from VNPT-VCI) for discovering this issue!

1.59.211

• Fixed another bug with “tp” table

1.59.209

• Fixed a bug with constantly growing “tp” table
• Improved compatibility with WP 6.3.2
• Removed extra files / Some clean up

1.58.207

• Fixed a bug with memory_limit = -1 that can be set on some hostings
• Improved compatibility with WP 6.3.1

1.57.205

• Fixed a MySQL bug with indexing some words contains specific hieroglyphic literals (Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc)
• Fixed a bug with logging

1.56.203

• Some bugs fixed

1.55.201

• Officially changed the plugin’s name to “WP Fast Total Search”
• The code was reorganized to be clearer and simpler to update
• The plugin’s description was improved
• Added Query Log details page
• Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.2.1 and PHP 8.2+
• Improved block-based themes support
• Added smart updater for database allowed to preserve current index while updating the plugin version
• The main search algorithm was redone to be sufficiently less RAM-consuming and faster
• Fixed 21 issues in the code

1.51.178

• Query Log analyzer added
• Index Browser added
• Fixed 9 small issues

1.50.175

• Improved support for Block-based themes (in particular, 2022) – Smart Excerpts is now shown in those themes
• Preparations for the modular structure
• Maybe added a lot of bugs, please report! (will be fixed soon)

1.50.168

• Compatibility with WP 6.0
• Fixed bugs with Live Search widget
• Fixed 5 minor bugs

1.49.164

• Localization-related fixes
• Analytics submenu added
• Text description fixed

1.48.162

• Added more flexibility for WPFTS Live Search widget and widget shortcode

1.48.156

• Added “Remove non-text HTML nodes” functionality
• Fixed 3 issues

1.48.150

• Increased compatibility with PHP8.0+
• Fixed 7 bugs with database access and deprecated code
• Added hooks to add flexibility to remove/add specific shortcodes from the indexing

1.47.148

• Improved style/js loading code (thanks to @nextendweb !)

1.47.146

• A course is taken to significantly improve the functionality of the plugin. Changed the design of the admin panel

1.46.140

• Added primary keys to temporary tables to let 3rd-party plugins (like backup tools) work better with wpftsi_* tables

1.45.138

• Added fail detection to the indexer to prevent stops because of 3rd party plugins’ fails

1.44.134

• Fix: enforce indexer via AJAX in case the server is local with wrong DNS/hosts file or disabled CRON

1.44.132

• Replaced TRUNCATE with CREATE-RENAME-DROP to avoid system locking

1.44.130

• Added a checkbox to switch ON/OFF the search inside WP admin
• Improved indexer execution for hostings where DNS is configured incorrectly and/or native WP cron does not work properly
• Added a fix (optional, with the checkbox switch) for MariaDB issue with new experimental search option
• WPFTS Index Optimizer is switched OFF by default now (you can bring it back using the switch)
• Rebuild Index button from Attachment Edit page now works again
• Optimized IDLE mode for indexer
• Added wpfts_set_pause() method
• Visual issues fixed
• Fixed main_search tweaker routine

1.43.128

• Added Flare support
• Fixed a bug in autocomplete widget
• Added ‘wpfts_is_force’ parameter to WP_Query

1.42.124

• Fixed MySQL error (thanks Daan!)
• Clean up some code to remove extra Flare&Fire calls

1.42.122

• The indexer sequence and algorithm was completely rebuilt
• Pause mode was added to the indexer
• Improved indexer logging
• Added search index status to the Edit Post page

1.41.120

• Added shortcode [wpfts_widget] that lets you install search widget to any place of post/page or template

1.40.117

• Improved input parameter processing to remove dependency with is_main_query() and is_search() for repeated WP_Query calls
• Bugs fixed
• Improved compatibility with 3rd-party themes and plugins

1.39.112

• Fixed Live Search console error
• Fixed 5 minor bugs

1.39.108

• Fixed 8 bugs and issues
• Added shortcode content search support!
• Improved Smart Excerpt preparation (removed html entities)

1.38.106

• Fixed 10 big and small issues
• Added: extension port in free version
• Improved indexing speed

1.37.101

• Some fixes in the code
• Fixed forum and documentation links

1.36.98

• Word indexer was optimized for low-memory webservers
• Fixed some notices appeared for rare cases

1.35.96

• Fixed an issue with AND settings (now works again, thanks to @clapierre)
• Fixed 2 other bugs
• The notice on the Smart Excerpt Settings page was fixed

1.34.94

• Translation-related fixes

= 1.33.92=
* Fixed an issue with index length on VARCHAR fields
* Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 5.5
* Fixed language domain and code to be compatible with WordPress Translate service

1.32.90

• Added support for x86 platforms (by x64 software emulation)
• Fixed notices when result is empty (thanks to Mihajlo!)
• Fixed DB collation issues (now WPFTS is using the same collation as WordPress does)

1.31.88

• Fixed “expected to be a reference, value given” bug, thanks to @gregamer!

1.31.87

• Fixed found_posts / max_num_pages issue
• Fixed text typo

1.30.85

• Added new algorithm that supports sentences
• Deep search is now faster (no more afraid to use it)
• Character limit (3 chars) was removed
• MyISAM support was dropped
• Faster index rebuilding
• Fixed some UI/UX issues
• Fixed around 15 issues in the code

1.28.75

• Fixed some UI bugs
• Added German and German-formal translations (thanks to torkeller (@torkeller) !!!)
• Improved Russian translation

1.27.72

• Fixed UI second-level tabs bug
• Some new texts prepared for translation

1.27.70

• Changed UI logic: now tabbed
• Approved compatibility with WordPress 5.4
• Fixed 3 small issues

1.26.67

• Fixed Smart Excerpts view issue
• Added more code for custom widgets
• Attachments caption and description are searchable now!

1.25.65

• Fixed design (now looks much better)
• Fixed text typos
• Fixed 4 small issues

1.24.62

• Fixed texts and typos
• Improved indexing speed
• Some code preparations for sentence-enabled search

1.23.58

• Fixed 3 issues
• Updated the plugin description

1.23.56

• Fixed notification windows dismiss function

1.23.54

• Fixed incompatibility with Gravity Forms and possible some other plugins

1.23.50

• Added modern design of the plugin backend. All forms and controls were rebuilt
• Fixed 5 bugs and issues

1.22.46

• Added alpha Live Search functionality

1.21.44

• Justified design
• Fixed 2 bugs

1.20.42

• Tested and approved compatibility with WP 5.3
• Fixed 3 secondary issues

1.19.40

• Fixed number to string conversion for some locales

1.18.35

• Added CSS style editor for Smart Excerpts block
• Added external parameters for WP_Query: “word_logic” and “wpfts_disable” (refer documentation)
• Fixed: Smart Excerpts now works well for content contains non-UTF-8 characters

1.17.33

• Fixed: The Smart Excerpts algorithm was completely rebuilt. Now working on any post and excerpt length. Thanks to Kathy

1.16.31

• Fixed: single UTF-8 quote issue made some “beautifyed strings” unsearchable. Fixed now. Thanks to Sophia.

1.16.29

• Fixed: make text search case insensitive not depends from MySQL config. Thanks to Sophia

1.16.27

• Fixed: search result items with zero relevance does not show anymore (BIG thanks to @bolus150 for the bugreport!)
• Added possibility to set up cluster_weights as a WP_Query parameter
• Added wpfts_cluster_weights filter
• Added Settings option to strip_tags before put post content to the index (useful for Gutenberg driven sites)

1.15.24

• Localization improved (new pot file, added __ in some places the code)

1.14.22

• Big update: lots of functions was moved from the Pro version to the Free WPFTS Version
• Interface bugs were fixed
• Relevance formula was completely rebuilt
• Reindex algorithm was sufficiently improved (now 5 times faster!)
• Word max length was increased to 255 characters

1.11.16

• Code optimizations
• Indexing speed increased

1.11.15

• Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.2.2
• Fixed 3 small issues

1.10.14

• Fixed an issue with database locking with MYISAM
• Small interface fixes

1.10.13

• Fixed an issue with indexing
• Added compatibility with WordPress 5.2

1.10.12

• Fixed 3 issues

1.10.11

• Improved compatibility with WP 5.1
• Fixed 7 issues

1.9.10

• Added Google-like Smart Excerpts

1.8.9

• Fixed 5 tiny bugs (thanks users for reports!)

1.8.7

• Added Multisite support

1.7.6

• Fixed 9 warnings and 21 notices while optimizing plugin for PHP 7.2
• Added support of PHP 7.2

1.7.5

• Added Main WP Search Tweaks settings

1.6.4

• Fixed a bug – it was a reason why plugin can’t activate correctly on some hostings

1.6.3

• Added InnoDB support
• Added a switch of MySQL table type (InnoDB/MySQL)
• Fixed a bug with popup message

1.6.2

• Fixed MySQL queries: search speed sufficiently improved

1.6.1

• Added “Deeper Search” flag and functionality

1.6.0

• Added support for internal query filtering
• Added wpfts_search_terms filter
• Fixed some indexing speed issues

1.5.9

• Fixed Readme.txt
• Fixed queries to WP multisite support

1.5.8

• Compatibility with WP 4.8.1
• Indexing speed increased a bit (code was optimized)

1.4.6

• Added support for sites with specific DB table names

1.3.4

• Cosmetic changes

1.2.3

• Changed regexp which is splitting texts to words (non-english characters are now supported)
• Added wpftp_split_to_words filter which enables you to define your own “text splitting” algorithm

1.2.1

• Added complex query analyzer (support quotes)

1.1.7

• Added plugin icon
• Fixed description

1.1.6

• Lowered save_post hook priority to index metadata correctly

1.1.5

• Small bug fixes
• Debug logging removed

1.1.4

• Added cluster weights capability
• Plugin assigned to GPL license

1.0

• First WordPress version

0.4

• Automatic indexing were added, over 30 bugs were fixed

0.1

• Initial edition. Basic functions added