Sokol: Smart WooCommerce Search

3.0.8

• Fixed: recent searches styling issue when search popup opened from website’s menu
• Updated: translations

3.0.7

• Added: option “Display only Search Icon” – hides input field and shows only search button
• Added: ability to add “Sokol Smart Search” widget into menu

3.0.6

• Fixed: issue when user can’t click on the founded results in the inline widget
• Checked: WordPress 7.0 compatibility

3.0.5

• Fixed: issue when a few inline widgets present and a backdrop covers widgets so user can’t click on the founded results
• Updated: resent searches chips styles for mobile

3.0.4

• fix

3.0.0

• Added: new major feature – data indexing – that improves search performance
• Updated: WPML and Polylang compatibility
• Updated: caching logic

2.16.4

• Added: toggles to on/off category events for Google Analytics
• Added: possibility to remove default widgets
• Added: toggle ‘Enhance Default’ to enhance default theme’s search bar
• Added: option ‘SKU label’
• Updated: logic for stripping punctuation symbols

2.16.3

• Fixed: punctuation issue in search terms

2.16.2

• Improved: UI/UX for search popup
• Improved: code optimizations

2.16.1

• Updated: search results caching
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 10.7

2.16.0

• Added: option to enable events tracking (Google Analytics 4)
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 10.6

2.15.2

• Fixed: error related to title output

2.15.1

• Updated: spanish translations

2.15.0

• Added: Option to select predefined loader
• Added: Option to select custom image for loader
• Under the hood improvements

2.14.0

• Added: Option to display product rating
• Under the hood improvements

2.13.0

• Added: Option to display selected product categories in the fullscreen popup

2.12.3

• Updated: Freemius SDK

2.12.0

• Added: setting ‘Full Screen Mode’ to display results in a full screen popup
• Added: setting ‘Recent Searches’ to display user’s latest searches
• Tweak: compatibility issue with DIVI builder
• Updated: admin settings styling

2.11.7

• Added: Setting ‘Custom CSS selectors’ to set CSS selectors to enhance existing search bar with Smart Search features
• Added: Setting ‘Custom CSS Styles’ to add inline CSS
• Tweak: fixed issue with multiple search bars on a page

2.11.6

• Added: WP filter ‘sws_search_bar_css_selectors’ to set CSS selectors to extend existing search bar with Smart Search features

2.11.5

• Fixed: ‘Product Collection’ block’s query fix on the search results page
• Fixed: ‘Query Loop’ block’s query fix on the search results page
• Fixed: compatibility issue with “HUSKY – Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce” plugin
• Tweak: woocommerce order filters issue on the search results page
• Tweak: updated custom search bar output to meet W3C requirements

2.11.4

• Fixed: search results page issue in a block-themes
• Tweak: woocommerce order filters issue on the search results page

2.11.3

• Fixed: problem with expired nonce due to cached page
• Fixed: inconsistent popup collapsing
• Fixed: Gutenberg search block tweak
• Added: translations

2.11.2

• Added: French translation file
• Added: Spanish translation file

2.11.0

• Added: option to set Popup Max Height for mobiles
• Added: option to select Image Size from defined media sizes
• Added: option to set a gap between search bar and popup
• Added: option to set Rounded Border for popup
• Added: option to set Search Bar Height
• Tweak: CSS styles updates

2.10.1

• Added: setting “Suppress Query Altering” for the search results page
• Added: filter ‘sws_view_all_button_text’
• Added: filter ‘sws_filter_search_terms’
• Tweak: small under the hood fixes

2.10.0

• Added: results order settings
• Added: blueprint.json file
• Tweak: REST request processing issue

2.9.0

• Added: “Popup Max Height” option
• Fixed: MYSQL query errors when search terms are incorrect
• Tweak: changes for the default search bar added through Gutenberg

2.8.0

• Fixed: issue with the “Highlight Search Terms on the Search Results Page” setting
• Tweak: Raised the minimum required PHP version to 7.0

2.7.0

• Added: option to disable default WooCommerce redirect to product page if there is only one search result
• Updates: small improvements

2.6.3

• Updates: bug fixes / code optimization / improvements

2.6.2

• Updates: php code optimization / improvements
• Updates: caching improvements

2.6.1

• Added: Declaration for WooCommerce High-Performance order storage compatibility

2.6.0

• Added: “Display Category” and “Category Color” options to output product/post category in the search results popup

2.5.2

• Fixed: deprecation warnings related to PHP 8
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 7.8

2.5.1

• Fixed: vulnerability issue related to missing capability checks on the duplicate() & remove() functions called via AJAX actions

2.5.0

• Added: target “_blank” option for “View All” button
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 7.5

2.4.0

• Added: hook for altering search results output ‘ysm_suggestion_image_output’
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 7.0

2.3.1

• Fixed: issue when search results page doesn’t display any products
• Updates: localization files and strings

2.3.0

• Fixed: Smart Search hooks priority issue when search results page doesn’t displays needed products
• Fixed: issue when additional woocommerce filters do not applies to the products in search results
• Added: option to disable AJAX functionality (results popup)

2.2.7

• restored SKU search
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 5.9

2.2.6

• small fixes
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 5.8

2.2.5

• Fixed: issue with popup results click event
• Compatibility: WordPress 5.8
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 5.5

2.2.4

• Fixed: issue with non-latin encoding
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 5.2

2.2.3

• Fixed: errors while saving options on the multisite installation
• Tweaks: under the hood improvements

2.2.2

• Tweaks: optimizations for the query that runs on the search results page

2.2.1

• Fixed: tweaks for multiple words issue

2.2.0

• Added: option to extend default Avada’s search bar
• Fixed: issue when multiple words separated with a space

2.1.1

• Fixed: fatal error when no custom widgets added

2.1.0

• Fixed: special character issue
• Updated: admin pages structure
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 5.0

2.0.3

• Tweaks: search results order
• Tweaks: input styles
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 4.8 and WordPress 5.6

2.0.2

• Fixed: popup height issue on mobiles
• Fixed: product link on the product title
• Compatibility: WooCommerce 4.7

2.0.1

• Fixed: issue with removing Elementor widget
• Fixed: error when searching in custom fields

2.0.0

• Database queries optimization
• Code optimization
• UI improvements
• Fixed: View All button link

1.6.2

• Tweaks: WooCommerce 4.4 compatibility
• small fixes

1.6.1

• WordPress 5.5 compatibility

1.6.0

• code refactoring and optimization
• Elementor compatibility
• Accessibility fix

1.5.20

• code refactoring and optimization
• WooCommerce 4.3 compatibility

1.5.19

• Fixed: issue related to single quote in a search terms
• code refactoring

1.5.18

• Fixed: issue when empty results on search page
• Fixed: empty placeholder in search bar
• Some code refactoring

1.5.17

• Fixed: search results page pre_get_posts filter

1.5.16

• Fixed: compatibility with Avada

1.5.15

• Updated: po file
• Small tweaks

1.5.14

• Compatibility with WooCommerce 4.0

1.5.13

• Added compatibility with WOOF plugin
• Fixed – issue with query parameters in View All button

1.5.12

• Fixed – WP 5.3 compatibility issue
• Fixed – issue with ‘+’ symbol in the query

1.5.11

• Fixed – Polylang compatibility issue
• Fixed – Variations displaying when not in stock

1.5.10

• Fixed – DIVI shortcodes issue in search results

1.5.9

• Fixed – outputting variations when parent product in draft
• Code optimizations

1.5.8

• Improved – search results page output
• Improved – visibility and exclusion query parameters

1.5.7

• Fixed – search results page query
• Improved – autocomplete function

1.5.6

• Added – “Search Field Background Color” option
• Improved – “Fuzzy Search” option

1.5.5

• Fixed – php warning

1.5.4

• Fixed – results order (by title) issue when “fuzzy search” option enabled
• Fixed – issue on mobiles when results popup can’t be closed

1.5.3

• Added – “Search Page Layout with Posts” option
• Fixed – displaying of “View all” link when no suggestions

1.5.2

• Fixed – “Disallowed Product Categories” option
• Fixed – searching by SKU

1.5.1

• Added “Disallowed Product Categories” option
• Support for WooCommerce 3.4.2

1.5.0

• Added excerpt position option

1.4.8

• Fixed duplicating of results when searching by SKU;
• Fixed outputting of all posts instead of no results;

1.4.7

• Fixed Search Page results amount issue

1.4.6

• Added Search Exclude plugin compatibility
• Under the hood improvements

1.4.5

• Fixed View All Button link
• Fixed Search results page output

1.4.4

• Speed optimizations
• Fixed form submitting link

1.4.3

• Added option – Exclude “Out of stock” products from results
• Under the hood improvements

1.4.2

• Fixed fuzzy search
• Fixed issue with ‘/’ in search text

1.4.1

• Fixed syntax error for php version less than 5.4

1.4.0

• Added option “Fuzzy search (multiple word search)”
• Under the hood improvements

1.3.0

• Added option “Enable search through Variable Product Variations”
• Added option “Accent Words on Search Page”
• Under the hood improvements

1.2.3

• Fixed issue with a border in “No results” block

1.2.2

• Fixed issue with a special characters like “őűóíúéá”
• Fixed issue with a multibyte strings

1.2.1

• Fixed WooCommerce 3.0 compatibility issue, when new products didn’t shows up in the search results
• Small improvements

1.2.0

• Added option to display a product SKU in the results popup
• Added option to restrict the product searching by selected categories
• Added option to set custom widget input border width
• Small improvements

1.1.3

• Prevent redirecting to the Search results page when a customer presses Enter and the number of typed characters less then characters number set in the plugin settings
• Fixed popup content scrolling by mouse wheel (Windows OS browsers)

1.1.2

• Fixed searching by sku
• Fixed css cross browser issues

1.1.1

• Fixed issue with fonts (fontello) conflict

1.1.0

• Changed search results page output – when using products search or when you set option to search only through products in default or in custom search widget (shortcode) the search page displays WooCommerce product layout
• Added option (“Display default search output on search results page”) to disable plugin filter that overrides default WordPress or WooCommerce search query

1.0.0

• Initial release