Lumenare Search

1.1.3

• Fixed core/search block parameters not applying on frontend
• Added match quality boosting: exact keyword matches score 3x, prefix matches 2x, substring matches 1x
• Fixed search term highlighting for prefix matches (e.g., “word” now highlights inside “WordPress”)
• Fixed garbage keyword suggestions caused by HTML elements concatenating during content cleaning
• Added keyword length filtering to prevent long concatenated tokens from appearing in suggestions
• Note: A full reindex is recommended after upgrading to clean up any existing malformed keywords

1.1.21

• Fixed bug where database schema upgrades only ran on plugin activation, not on file updates
• Note: After upgrading, a full reindex is required to rebuild the search index

1.1.2

• Added live search results caching – clicking back into search input re-displays cached results without new AJAX request
• Added modern Gutenberg block with 4 variations (Default, Compact, Expanded, Icon Toggle) replacing legacy widget
• Added block editor InspectorControls for configuring search appearance
• Added expandable icon-only search variation for minimal UI footprint
• Fixed fuzzy search now finds misspelled words regardless of starting letter (prioritized candidate retrieval)
• Improved ARIA accessibility attributes for search dropdown elements

1.1.1

• Added canonical keyword storage to preserve original capitalization from content
• Improved keyword suggestions with proper spacing and capitalization
• Added URL component filtering to prevent indexing raw URLs.
• Generic word boundary detection that works across different sites and content types
• Note: Reindexing recommended after upgrade to populate canonical keywords and remove URL components

1.1.0

• Improve admin ability to fine-tune search results
• Add analytics and search query tracking feature

1.0.2

• Improve compatibility with non-block themes

1.0.1

• Add option to show search icon
• Strip shortcodes, HTML and other block editor patterns from search index, queries and results

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Live search with dropdown results
• Keyword indexing system with weighted relevance (title: 3, excerpt: 2, content: 1)
• Category and date filtering
• Widget and shortcode support
• Admin settings panel with comprehensive options
• Keyword match mode – Choose between ANY (OR) or ALL (AND) keyword matching
• Configurable stop words for noise reduction and improved relevance
• Configurable synonyms for expanded search coverage
• Fuzzy matching (typo tolerance) with configurable Levenshtein distance threshold
• Autocorrect prevention to preserve technical terms and brand names
• Search term highlighting with context-aware excerpt extraction
• Phrase boosting for defined important phrases
• Gutenberg Search block integration (automatic replacement)
• Security filtering and logging
• Full WordPress coding standards compliance
• PSR-4 autoloading architecture
• Secure: nonce verification, input sanitization, output escaping, prepared SQL