SwiftSearch for Typesense

1.5.0

• Feature: Dedicated Shop & Catalog Page Mode replacing WooCommerce default shop page with horizontal sorting, sticky pagination, and flat card aesthetics.
• Developer: Added custom JavaScript DOM events (swift-search:hit-rendered and swift-search:results-rendered) to support custom integrations (wishlists, ratings, ajax cart).
• Fix: Resolved price sorting returning zero results by indexing price as a float and utilizing Typesense missing_values parameter support.

1.4.9

• Library: Upgraded Chart.js to v4.5.1.
• Security: Resolved REST API permission callback warning for the /log endpoint.

1.4.8

• Library: Upgraded Chart.js to v4.4.4.
• UI: Removed inactive Coming Soon settings placeholders from styling card.
• Documentation: Consolidated key features and capabilities in the readme file.

1.4.7

• Design: Introduced Plus Jakarta Sans font family.
• Design: Modernized overall admin UI dashboard variables, card borders, radii, and shadows.
• Fix: Unified text/number inputs and select elements heights to prevent alignment mismatch in connection settings card.

1.4.6

• Fix: Resolved a bug where browser-driven indexing fallback ran recursively in an infinite loop upon completion.
• Fix: Set active flag to false in the database when completing index types that are disabled (e.g. user indexing).

1.4.5

• Feature: Added automatic browser-driven AJAX fallback for servers with local loopback or cURL block restrictions (e.g. OpenResty WAF 403 Forbidden blocks).
• Improvement: Added real-time loopback diagnostics printed to the browser developer tools console.
• Maintenance: Force-bust CSS/JS browser cache by appending dynamic version timestamps in admin.

1.4.4

• Security: Implemented universal sanitization for all background processes and REST API inputs.
• Compliance: Refined admin asset enqueuing logic to use official WordPress Screen IDs instead of URL parameters.
• Compliance: Added proper PHPCS logic annotations for all direct database queries on custom tables.
• Compliance: Finalized template variable prefixing ($swift_search_pt) across the entire admin dashboard.

1.4.3

• Security: Complete SQL hardening by removing all variable interpolation from $wpdb->prepare statements.
• Security: Implemented mandatory nonce verification and strict input sanitization for all processes.
• Compliance: Prefixed all internal hooks and variables to ensures zero collisions.
• Compliance: Replaced legacy strip_tags() with wp_strip_all_tags() and fixed deprecated parameters.
• Maintenance: Truncated short description to <150 characters as per repository requirements.

1.4.2

• Fix: Resolved a “ReferenceError: resolve is not defined” in the frontend search script that caused search clusters to fail during user input.
• Improved: Hardened frontend fetch logic to gracefully handle network timeouts and server errors.

1.4.1

• Fix: Resolved a critical JavaScript syntax error in the admin dashboard that caused the “Connect” button to fail silently.
• Improved: Enhanced REST API error reporting for Typesense connection handshakes to provide localized, actionable feedback.
• Stability: Properly scoped variables and added robust XHR error parsing to prevent UI lockups.

1.4.0

• Security: Hardened all database interactions with $wpdb->prepare() for SQL injection prevention.
• Security: Implemented wp_unslash() and safe input handling for background indexing processes.
• Compliance: Replaced legacy strip_tags() with wp_strip_all_tags().
• Compliance: Removed redundant textdomain loading to follow WP.org central translation policy.
• Maintenance: Updated wp_count_terms() and date functions for WordPress 6.7 compatibility.

1.3.20

• Security: Hardened server-side validation for Synonyms, Weights, and Facet parameters.
• Security: Implemented frontend data masking to prevent configuration leakage.
• Security: Optimized Indexer protection to block unauthorized metadata extraction.
• Performance: Optimized connection checking with static caching in Gatekeeper.

1.3.19

• Fix: Corrected accidental “faded” disabled style from the “Show Excerpts” setting.

1.3.18

• Fix: Resolved critical “undefined” JavaScript error when loading the admin dashboard.
• Maintenance: Removed orphaned references to legacy shortcode overrides.

1.3.17

• UX: Reordered Search UI tab to place Experience Options at the top.
• Feature: Fully implemented Frontend visibility toggles for Thumbnails, Prices, and Excerpts.
• Roadmap: Added “Coming Soon” placeholders for Sort Results and Floating Mobile Button.
• Fix: Cleaned up redundant Instant Search override from Shortcode Generator.

1.3.16

• Refactor: Reorganized Experience settings to prioritize Global defaults over overrides.
• Feature: Moved Thumbnail, Price, and Excerpt toggles to Global Experience Options.
• Fix: Consolidate Shortcode Generator to only output attributes for explicit overrides.
• Fix: Resolved a structural JavaScript error in admin.js that was breaking state restoration.

1.3.15

• UI Optimization: Consolidated redundant “Instant Search” setting in the admin dashboard.
• Roadmap: Labeled Sort and Mobile experience options as “Coming Soon” to accurately reflect current implementation status.
• Improved UX: Corrected feature descriptions and added visual states for disabled roadmap settings.

1.3.14

• Fix: Resolved a critical JavaScript ReferenceError in search results processing.
• Improved: Stabilized organic match counting for analytics.

1.3.12

• Fix: Improved search analytics accuracy by excluding pinned items from organic match counts.
• Improvement: Added CSS hooks for identifying pinned items in search results.

1.3.11

• Fix: Search tracking for zero-result queries (previously skipped, now correctly populates analytics dashboard).
• UI: Removed redundant synonym path debug buttons to clean up settings dashboard.

1.3.10

• Fix: Modernized Typesense v0.30+ Global Synonym linking via collection schema patching.
• Improvement: Dynamic admin UI for collection management (cached for performance).
• UI: Fixed layout breakage in Relevance settings tab.

1.3.0

• New: Full support for Typesense v0.30.1+ Global Synonym Sets.
• Fix: Resolved 404 errors during synonym synchronization on modern Cloud clusters.
• Improvement: Enhanced error reporting in Admin UI.
• Improvement: Multi-way synonym support for better search expansion.

1.2.7

• Fix: Resolved synonym saving and Typesense synchronization logic mismatch.
• Fix: Prevented ‘undefined’ string rendering in the admin synonyms list.

1.2.4

• Fix: ‘Advanced Data’ custom fields now correctly persist deletions in the database.
• New: Dynamic Search Results heading based on active post types (e.g. ‘Products’ vs ‘Products & Posts’).
• New: Strict Post-Type filtering in search queries to prevent old content from appearing.
• UX: Added ‘Re-index Required’ warning when searchable content types are changed.

1.2.3

• Fix: Critical configuration bottleneck in ConfigLoader.php resolved.
• Improvement: Enhanced Typesense Response logging for diagnostic transparency.
• Version: Synced core logic with Universal Facet Registration Bridge.

1.2.1

• Fix: Resolved an issue where some enabled facets were hidden in the frontend sidebar due to redundant validation logic.

1.2.0

• New: Universal Facet Registration Bridge.
• New: Advanced Facet Settings (Target Mapping & Data Types).
• Fix: Zero-results for numeric/boolean facets by implementing type-safe filtering.
• Improvement: Unified schema and indexing logic for all WordPress plugins.

1.0.22

• Fix: Facet configuration freezing on load due to data type mismatch.
• Fix: Security warning persistence after saving settings.
• Fix: Improved error handling for PHP-to-JS data serialization.

1.0.21

• Fix: Saved Custom Fields button visibility.
• Improvement: Connection workflow.

1.0.0

• Initial release.