WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search

Changelog

1.81.282

  • Fixed SQL injection vulnerability (IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX!)

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

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

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Author
Epsiloncool
Version:
1.81.282
Last Updated
June 26, 2026
Active Installs
1000
Requires
WordPress 5.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 7.0

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