Changelog

It's a changelog of the FiboSearch Pro. To see a changelog of the FiboSearch Free version, visit our page on wordpress.org.

Release Date - July 16, 2025

Added Info about Elementor widget.

Added Documentation links to Search in SKU and GUID.

Added Add filter to conditionally disable analytics recording (e.g. by IP, phrase, lang).

Added Add the ARIA label to the search icon for accessibility improvement.

Added Option to skip plugin loading on search page by adding the nofibosearch=1 parameter to the URL.

Added Troubleshooting – tests for the minimum required versions of themes and plugins with available integrations.

Added New filter to optionally show Products headline when only product suggestions are returned.

Added Filter to always show See all products button in autocomplete.

Added Filter to disable inline styles from the Personalization class.

Added CSS adjustments in Uncode theme – centered the search bar in the menu.

Added Option to skip index rebuild during plugin update when not necessary.

Added Including synonyms when calculating the score for ordering by relevance.

Added Improved search support for queries without spaces or separators, e.g. typing 888999 to match terms like 88-89-99.

Added Integration with the FilterEverything plugin.

Added Integration with UpSolution Core addon (Impreza theme + WPBakery) for AJAX product search compatibility.

Added Debugging page: reason explanation for unpublished or hidden products blocking indexing.

Added Full product data query to the Source Query tab in the debugger for easier indexing diagnostics.

Added Out of stock visibility fix tool section to the Products Visibility tab with a button that triggers visibility data regeneration for out-of-stock products.

Added Add filter dgwt/wcas/can_index_variable_parent to allow indexing variable products without variations.

Added Integration with the Hide Categories and Products for WooCommerce plugin.

Added Exact match SKU search.

Fixed Managing initial search bar interactivity before the main script has loaded.

Fixed Incorrect language code in speech recognition.

Fixed Removed the .woocommerce class from the FiboSearch bar widget.

Fixed Prevent JS error when getFormWrapper returns undefined or empty jQuery object.

Fixed Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array (PHP >= 8.1).

Fixed Styling issues in the Enfold theme.

Fixed There was an error in the SQL syntax that occurred during the plugin uninstallation process.

Fixed Escape double quotes in optionsRaw to prevent JSON.parse errors.

Fixed Differences in search behavior when using Greek words with or without accents.

Fixed Incorrect variation prices when dynamically loading prices.

Fixed Search in custom post types returned results in all languages.

Fixed Correct fuzzy distance calculation for multibyte UTF-8 characters.

Fixed Missing table error during index rebuild after plugin update.

Fixed E_STRICT warning for PHP 8.4.

Fixed Exclude non-published variation SKUs from parent variations_skus select query.

Fixed Index building failed after plugin update due to a missing table.

Fixed Replaced sanitize_key with wc_sanitize_taxonomy_name in selectTerms method to properly normalize taxonomy names according to WooCommerce standards.

Fixed Integration with WooCommerce Catalog Visibility Options – storing product IDs using Transient API instead of PHP session.

Tweak Moved the JS fibosearch/show-details-panel event to just before the preloader is hidden.

Tweak Code styling adjustments.

Tweak Hiding unwanted banner on settings page.

Tweak Optimized database queries.

Refactor Removed Listeo theme integration.

Updated Updating the .pot file.

Updated Freemius SDK.

Release Date - January 29, 2025

Fixed Errors related to index rebuilding. In some cases, the index rebuild failed, requiring a manual rebuild to complete the process.

Fixed There was an error in the SQL syntax that occurred during the plugin uninstallation process.

Release Date - January 27, 2025

Added Ability to search in custom post types.

Added Troubleshooting – add a test for slow querying of searchable custom fields and provide the ability to disable this query.

Added Search in Global Unique Identifier (GTIN, UPC, EAN or ISBN).

Added New “meta” field in index for taxonomy terms.

Added Bricks theme integration – support for “Products” element on the search results page.

Added Bricks theme integration – incorrect order of results on the search results page.

Added Integration with the Discontinued Product Stock Status for WooCommerce plugin.

Added The link to edit the FiboSearch bar in Customizer.

Added The x button was added to the review request notice.

Fixed Missing data in the Details Panel for product variations.

Fixed Resolved an error when attempting to insert FiboSearch blocks in the block editor.

Fixed Eliminated duplicate search results in autocomplete.

Fixed Enabled searching for products whose variations are all out of stock but have the “allow backorders” status.

Fixed WCAG “Links do not have a discernible name”.

Fixed WPML integration – no results when option "use translation if available or fallback to default language" is used.

Fixed Flatsome theme integration – can’t search in mobile overlay view when search is activated from the mobile menu.

Fixed Incorrect display of the FiboSearch form when it is embedded in the shop page description.

Fixed Mobile search in the menu does not work when the Divi Mobile plugin is active.

Fixed Unnecessary header “Search results for...” when there are no results for post types other than products.

Fixed Google PageSpeed Insights – avoid non-composited animations.

Fixed Search icon padding when the search icon is a part of the main menu.

Fixed Index build error caused by a long SKU.

Fixed Unable to search for a variation as a single product when searching by its attributes.

Fixed Duplicate search results in autocomplete (active duplicate removal).

Tweak Include variations with a zero price by default.

Tweak Navigate to the first variation from the results on submit only when exact SKU matching is active.

Tweak Cleaning up after refactoring of product variations indexing.

Tweak Theme integration is not loaded when the minimal version condition is not met.

Tweak Improved clearing of plugin data on uninstall.

Tweak Hiding unwanted banner on the settings page.

Tweak Remove the “(beta)” suffix from the “User search history” option.

Refactor Remove the “Grouped results” option.

Updated The .pot file.

Updated Freemius SDK.

Release Date - October 29, 2024

Added Improved variations indexing for variable products.

Added Integration with the “WooCommerce Show Single Variations” plugin created by Iconic.

Added WCAG improvements – possibility to select and open a search icon using the keyboard.

Added Search icon preloader. In some rare cases, a user can wait longer to display the search icon or search bar. Instead of an empty place, a placeholder is displayed.

Added New troubleshooting test – warning when “Ajax Search Lite” or “Ajax Search Pro” plugins are active.

Added Integration with the Listeo theme.

Added Support for brands feature included in WooCommerce core since v9.4.

Added Debug page – ability to debug taxonomy terms in the search index.

Added Filter to change the character map when converting Greeklish to Latin.

Fixed Generatepress theme integration – incorrect mobile overlay on the checkout in the Generatepress theme.

Fixed WPML plugin integration – incorrect translations of variations.

Fixed A better way of calculating window width when the breakpoint is checked.

Fixed Skip indexing variable products (parent) if no variations are available.

Fixed MultiVendorX – missing vendors when an index is built on schedule or via WP-CLI.

Tweak Hiding the XStore theme documentation button on the settings page.

Updated The .pot file.

Updated Freemius SDK.

Release Date - June 28, 2024

Fixed Removed the phrase “polyfill.io” from the JavaScript code comment. FiboSearch has never linked to this compromised library, but some security tools recognize this JavaScript comment as a potential link to malware. All reports are false positive.

Fixed PHP deprecated notice in \DgoraWcas\Helpers::keyIsValid

Fixed Unnecessary display of warning in Troubleshooting when products are displayed using a widget from “JetSmartFilters”

Release Date - May 21, 2024

Added New search bar style - a compact version of a Pirx style

Added Integration with the Cartzilla theme

Added Integration with the Rey theme

Added Placeholders to display custom content for new suggestion types like taxonomy, post, page, and product_variation

Added Multilingual - allowing longer language codes (or slugs in TranslatePress)

Added TranslatePress - possibility to skip product translation

Added Allowing indexing of variants that have zero price

Added Debugger - catalog visibility and stock status checker

Added Debugger - products visibility checker

Added Possibility to generate product data variants in the index without spaces

Fixed Woodmart theme - unable to close the mobile menu after exiting the mobile search overlay

Fixed Flatsome theme - disappearing search bar on mobile phones

Fixed Flatsome - cannot change search bar style to Pirx

Fixed Divi theme - shortcodes are not rendered in the description in the Details Panel for pages

Fixed XStore theme - the integration doesn't replace all search forms

Fixed Uncode theme - the search icon doesn't show in the header

Fixed Force disabling transition effect on search input to avoid unexpected layout bouncing

Fixed Allowing to calculate score including one and two-character words

Fixed Better recognition of iOS

Fixed Indexing error due to too long HTML prices of variations

Fixed Indexing error when product attribute is empty

Fixed No results with WPML and WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugins

Fixed Incorrect comparison in the tokenizer. Make stopwords lowercase in the tokenizer before calling array_diff

Fixed Possibility to pass the language when debugging the product in the index

Tweak Removed OPcache invalidation for the shortcode template file

Tweak Reverting test in Troubleshooting module for newer versions of HUSKY - Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce plugin

Updated The .pot file

Updated Freemius SDK to v2.7.2

Release Date - February 01, 2024

Fixed B2BKing plugin - better support for searching in terms

Release Date - January 31, 2024

Added Integration with the Betheme theme

Added Highlight words in search results with Greek letters regardless of accent

Added Support for “Full-width Search” in the XStore theme

Fixed Multiple search containers on mobile in the Astra theme integration

Fixed No focus on search input for mobile devices in the Astra theme integration

Fixed Allow an HTML <i> tag in suggestion titles and headlines

Fixed Multilingual support is active even for one language

Fixed Overriding the search icon and form in the header was not working properly in the WoodMart integration

Fixed Missing filters from “Advanced AJAX Product Filters” plugin in the Divi theme

Fixed Replace &#37 for more stable format %% in a sprintf function

Fixed An unwanted modal after closing the search overlay on mobile in the Flatsome theme

Fixed Missing colors after updating the Bloksy theme to 2.x

Fixed Incorrect calculation of a product's position in search results when it contains Greek letters

Fixed Incorrect term language detection in the WPML plugin. Replacing term_id with term_taxonomy_id

Fixed Unwanted ampersand entity in the product description of search results

Fixed No search results in Turkish when the phrase starts with a capital dotted i

Fixed No results when the search phrase contains Latin and Greek letters

Fixed Typo in an HTML class name related to variations

Fixed The search index could not be built due to a missing table in some rare cases

Fixed Missing vendor image in search results in the MultivendorX plugin

Fixed Disappearing filters in the JetSmartFilters plugin

Fixed PHP warning when using the Elementor widget FiboSearch Posts Search Results

Fixed Visible products and categories against the rules in the category view in the Details Panel in the B2BKing plugin

Fixed A fatal error when we return no results for a custom post using a filter

Fixed Don't save html_price in the readable index when dynamic prices are enabled

Tweak Do not run the search engine on the search page when the phrase is empty

Updated Requires PHP: 7.4

Updated The .pot file

Updated Polish translation

Updated Freemius SDK v2.6.2

Refactor Improved index structure creation (better error detection)

Refactor Integrations related to hiding products - storing product IDs using Transient API instead of PHP sessions

Release Date - October 19, 2023

Fixed Details panel - wrong HTML format of a stock status element

Release Date - October 17, 2023

Added Integration with Bricks builder. Read how to config Bricks in our documentation

Added Integration with Brizy builder

Added Improved Greeklish support

Added Automatic disabling of the mechanism for blocking data writing to the database when it is not supported by the server

Fixed Calc score by comparing every word of the search phrase instead of all search phrase

Fixed WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugin - invalid search results e.g. not hidden products and categories in the search results

Fixed Flatsome theme - if there are more search icons, only one is replaced

Fixed WPRocket - in some cases search fields/icons are not replaced immediately after the page load

Fixed Highlight matched words instead of the whole search phrase

Fixed WooCommerceB2B by Addify - remove undefined function

Fixed Error while viewing the index build failure report

Fixed Index build fails due to missing getmypid() function call

Fixed TranslatePress - excluding products by category causes the index to be empty

Fixed qTranslate-XT - excluding products by category causes the index to be empty

Fixed TranslatePress - untranslated product title when it contains a hyphen

Fixed B2BKing - no results when the WPML plugin is also active

Fixed Wrong variation URLs when WPML is active

Fixed The index does not build when the product image URL is in the wrong format

Fixed Table missing error when editing/deleting taxonomy term (multilingual sites only)

Fixed JetSmartFilters plugin filter values disappear on the search results page when the TranslatePress plugin is active

Tweak Allowing access to the Personalization class via DGWT_WCAS() function

Tweak HUSKY - Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce plugin - disable the test in the Troubleshooting module for newer versions of this plugin

Tweak Search speed optimization

Tweak Support for language codes like xx_XX

Updated Freemius SDK v2.5.12

Refactor Replace .click() with trigger('click'), .focus() with trigger('focus'), .blur() with trigger('blur')

Refactor Replace jQuery.fn.mouseup() with $(document).on('mouseup')

Refactor Replace jQuery.isFunction() with typeof fn === 'function'

Release Date - July 05, 2023

Added Possibility to search for taxonomy terms regardless of accents in a phrase or term name

Added Added some new filters to change URLs of results in autocomplete and details panel

Added Compatibility with 5.x of the WooCommerce Visibility plugin

Added Shortcode to display search results for post types. Read about it in our documentation

Added Indexing images for other post types than product

Added Integration with WooCommerceB2B by Addify

Added Integration with WooCommerce B2B plugin by Code4Life

Added Stopping the search after detecting an illegal phrase

Added Troubleshooting - warning against limiting the length of database queries in the WP Engine environment

Fixed Warnings due to open_basedir restrictions

Fixed Integration with the Impreza theme - broken AJAX pagination for Grid element

Fixed Integration with the TheGem theme - missing search results when the Layout Type option is set to Products Grid

Fixed Integration with the Divi theme - mobile overlay not showing up

Fixed Stronger sanitization of the details panel output

Fixed Indexer error due to too invalid cookie

Fixed Elementor - no image height alignment in the FiboSearch Posts Search Results widget

Fixed Support for dynamic prices for the plugin YITH Multi Currency Switcher for WooCommerce

Tweak New filter to manipulate a term output

Tweak Improved recognition if the B2BKing plugin is active (under SHORTINIT mode)

Tweak DGWT_WCAS()->searchPosts() returns empty results if index was invalid

Updated Freemius SDK v2.5.10

Updated Polish translation

Release Date - May 25, 2023

Added Searching interface usable from within PHP

Added Integration with the Minimog theme. Read about it in our documentation

Added Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are included in the FiboSearch Analytics module

Added A feature that supports the Dark theme feature in the Nave theme

Added Possibility to change the color of a search bar underlay. Only for the Pirx style

Added New search widget and extended search results for Elementor

Fixed Broken integrations with filter plugins when home_url was empty

Fixed Incorrect log file in failed index build reports

Fixed Index build failed because of a missing wp_cache_flush_group() function

Fixed Indexer error [Searchable index] Database error "Duplicate entry '16777215'(...)"

Fixed Indexer error because a column was too short in the database

Fixed Uncode theme - incorrect results on the search results page

Fixed Slow index building when the TranslatePress plugin is active

Fixed PHP exceptions were thrown from the Redis Object Cache plugin and it stopped the indexer-building process

Fixed Wrong position of search icons in the history search module

Fixed Broken suggestions layout and detailed panel visibility when the Minimum characters option is set to less than >1

Fixed Compatibility with PHP 8.1

Fixed Hide unnecessary modules when constant DGWT_WCAS_ANALYTICS_ONLY_CRITICAL is set to true in the FiboSearch Analytics module

Fixed Incorrect display of information about constants on the debug page

Fixed Other minor bugs in the FiboSearch Analytics module

Fixed Integration with the Astra theme - support for version 4.1.0 of Astra Addon

Fixed A HTML tag <br> was unnecessarily stripped in the description in the details panel

Fixed The voice search feature - overlapping icons and disabling functionality on Safari

Tweak New filter to manipulate taxonomy term data that are indexed

Updated French translation

Updated Freemius SDK v2.5.8

Refactor Change order if set settings defaults. Now the defaults are set after calling dgwt/wcas/settings filter

Security A trivial vulnerability in the code. Possible XSS, but it requires an administrator role

Tests Two integration tests that check saving phrases in a database table

Tests Fix assertion in "Analytics / Critical searches without result"

Release Date - April 05, 2023

Added Ability to search using Greeklish for Greek

Added Fuzzy search, synonyms, and other pro features available in searching for taxonomy terms

Added Integration with Blocksy theme. Read about it in our documentation

Added Integration with Qwery theme. Read about it in our documentation

Added Integration with StoreBiz theme. Read about it in our documentation

Added Allows the Shop manager role to manage the plugin settings by adding a constant to the wp.config.php file. Read about it in our documentation

Added Allows creating HTML templates instead of displaying simple No results message. Read about it in our documentation

Improved Blocks calculating score if the phrase contains a single character

Fixed Disabling the search cache using a PHP constant didn't completely disable it. Now it disables it completely

Fixed Table doesn't exist error during index building in some rare cases

Fixed More accurate calculation of the order of products in search results. The extra score for an exact match of a sequence of words

Fixed Incorrect product links in search results with the Permalink Manager for WooCommerce plugin active

Fixed Storefront theme - not working focus event while using a mobile overlay for iPhone devices

Fixed Mobile overlay on iPhone devices - didn't hide search results on a scroll event or after clicking the done button

Fixed iPhone devices - annoying auto zoom in search input on focus

Fixed Search icon mode and search history - a search bar was needlessly concealed on clicking the Clear button

Fixed Freemius SDK - added submenu slug

Fixed Flatsome theme - detecting incompatible settings and disappearing search form on hover

Fixed Layout option - hidden triangle icon when a layout is icon and style is Pirx

Fixed TranslatePress and qTranslate-XT - untranslated breadcrumbs in category results

Tweak Ability to disable the mutex mechanism during indexing

Tweak Replacing empty href tag with # in the Storefront theme integration because of SEO

Tweak Multilingual - supporting language codes up to 10 characters

Tweak Removed unnecessary AJAX request on the settings page

Tweak Trivial CSS changes

Updated Polish translation

Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.6

Refactor Forcing mobile overlay breakpoint and in layout breakpoint in theme integrations

Refactor Variables names in the method Helpers::calcScore()

Release Date - January 30, 2023

Fixed Some prices were not aligned properly

Release Date - January 30, 2023

Added New feature - Search history. The current search history is presented when the user clicked/taped on the search bar, but hasn't yet typed the query

Added FiboSearch Analytics - New widget in WordPress Dashboard with critical searches without result. Read about it in our documentation

Added Integration with Essentials theme

Added Make the UI_FIXER object the global object

Added Ability to search for vendors by description and city (only for MultiVendorX)

Added Ability to exclude critical phrases in the Analytics module. Read about it in our documentation

Added Custom JavaScript events during the search process. Read about it in our documentation

Added Ability to export search analytics data as CSV files

Added Javascript and CSS dynamic compression

Fixed Integration with Flatsome theme - focus event didn't work with a search bar

Fixed Integration with WooCommerce Product Filter by WooBeWoo - Undefined array key 'query' notice

Fixed Integration with Jet Smart Menu - repair duplicated search bars IDs

Fixed Integration with Astra theme - support for version 4.0.0

Fixed Integration with Astra theme - cannot change the number of products on the cart page

Fixed Integration with XStore theme - support for search icon in mobile panel

Fixed Compatibility with PHP 8.1

Fixed RWD for FiboSearch Settings views including Analytics views

Fixed Search bar CSS, especially when Pirx style and Voice Search work together

Fixed A user with permission to edit plugin settings cannot see search analytics

Fixed Pages can not be searched when the database prefix is empty

Fixed Improved compatibility with other plugins on the search results page

Fixed Broken index when there are many variants. Get variants faster when building an index

Tweak Hide the Voice Search icon when a user starts typing

Tweak Remove information that Analytics is a beta feature

Tweak Remove information that Darkened Background is a beta feature

Tweak Set a Pirx as a default search bar style

Updated French translation

Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.3

Release Date - November 24, 2022 (Pro version only)

Fixed Multisite: search does not work when the plugin is activated on a network-wide level

Fixed Rare database error Duplicate entry... error when building search index

Release Date - November 21, 2022

Added Integration with Product GTIN (EAN, UPC, ISBN) for WooCommerce plugin. Read about it in our documentation

Added Integration with EAN for WooCommerce plugin. Read about it in our documentation

Fixed Missing translation domain in some texts

Fixed Support variants of <br> tag in product names in autocomplete

Fixed Integration with the Astra theme - unclosed <div> tag

Fixed UI_FIXER: check if event listeners were correctly added to search inputs. If no, reinitiate the search instance

Fixed UI_FIXER: rebuild all search bars without correct JS events

Fixed Database error while updating or deleting product category

Fixed Warning: strpos(): Empty needle when there is a no s parameter

Fixed Can't get terms in the Exclude/include products option

Fixed Unnecessary secondary connection with a database in the indexer

Fixed MySQL deadlock errors during index building

Fixed Integration with Booster Plus for WooCommerce - error during index building

Fixed The endpoint of the search engine responds when the plugin is disabled

Fixed Not indexing custom fields - this fixes an issue that occurred after integrating FiboSearch with some EAN-related plugins

Fixed Double results in the autocomplete

Fixed The index cannot be rebuilt with an empty DB prefix

Fixed Disable voice search for Chrome on iPhone or iPad

Fixed Unable to embed search bar as a widget

Fixed Exclude save phrases to analyze when the phrase is fibotests or the user has a specific role

Fixed Invalid index status even though the index was built correctly

Fixed Push the index-building process further after updating the plugin. The index wasn't started in many cases

Fixed Integration with WC Marketplace stopped working after it was rebranded to MultiVendorX

Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.2

Release Date - September 18, 2022 (Pro version only)

Fixed Resignation from the WP Cache in favor of a new own object cache solution that uses non-persistent mode. Some WP Cache based solutions caused complications when indexing or searching

Release Date - September 15, 2022 (Pro version only)

Fixed Indexer issues: WordPress Object Cache issues

Fixed Indexer issues: Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes

Fixed Indexer issues: [Searchable index] Database error "Duplicate entry...

Fixed Warning related to Zend OPcache API when using plugin shortcode

Fixed Double indexing for new installations

Release Date - September 13, 2022

Added Stopwords feature

Added Integration with Neve theme

Added Integration with WP Rocket

Added Integration with Product Specifications for Woocommerce plugin

Added Include block sources in the plugin package

Added Possibility to reset search statistics from the settings page

Added Polish translation

Improved Logging of indexer errors related to the database

Improved Detection of non-emergency errors while building the index

Fixed Incorrect display of styles with personalization of the search

Fixed Wrong settings index in Impreza and Enfold theme

Fixed Removed of unnecessary language files

Fixed Always set cursor at the end of the input

Fixed Incorrect verification if the browser supports speech recognition

Fixed FiboSearch Analytics - not working check buttons of the latest loading list

Fixed Unnecessary options and transients after uninstalling plugin

Fixed Indexer error when the variation has a very long SKU

Fixed Unable to save fields with capital letters in the Search in custom fields option

Fixed Not indexing ACF fields with - in the name

Fixed Constant rebuilding of the index in certain circumstances

Fixed Error trying to index products whose languages were not active

Fixed Using a second DB connection to database outside searchable indexer context

Fixed Incorrectly handled transaction to the database during index build

Fixed Index building stops for unspecified reasons at 80% or 100%

Fixed Not including filtered data when indexing a variation of product

Fixed Indexer error when multilingualism is disabled by constant and the TranslatePress or qTranslate-XT plugin is active

Fixed Unable do add new indexer logs

Fixed No terms in Exclude/include products option

Fixed Duplicated SQL queries during page load

Fixed No search results when a category is excluded with an active Polylang plugin

Fixed Notice in indexer logs with active Polylang plugin and indexing of post/pages

Refactor Removing references to dgwt_wcas_si_info table which is no longer used

Release Date - July 25, 2022

Added New feature - New search layout called Pirx. Read about it in our blog

Added New feature - FiboSearch Analytics. Read about it in our documentation

Added New feature - Voice search. Read about it in our blog

Added New feature - Parallel indexing. Read about it in our blog

Added New feature - Building and updating index via WP-CLI. Read about it in our documentation

Added New feature - FiboSearch blocks in the block editor

Added New feature - Layout type: Icon on desktop, search bar on mobile

Added Separated option mobile_overlay_breakpoint to handle overlay on mobile breakpoint

Added Add mobile_overlay_breakpoint as a shortcode param to add the opportunity to set this value independently of global settings

Added UI_FIXER: try to regenerate search bars when they were added by AJAX callbacks

Added Support for header builder in integration with Astra theme

Added Support all types of layout in widget and embedding via a menu

Added Ability to reset plugin settings to default values

Added New shortcode params: submit_btn and submit_text

Improved Exclude common WooCommerce pages from search results

Improved Ability to build and update a search index using actions

Improved Another question marks for FiboSearch settings that cover our documentation

Improved Settings preview - smooth scrolling

Improved Settings preview - animate typing on a search preview for Search bar tab

Improved Improved darkened background positioning (support for sticky elements as well)

Improved Improved search suggestions and the details panel positioning (support for sticky elements as well)

Improved Improved handling of database errors when building the index

Tweak New filter to change score of custom post results

Tweak New hook when index build aborts due to an error

Tweak English grammar typos

Fixed WOOF – Products Filter for WooCommerce integration: broken counters on the search results page

Fixed Interdependent settings in Settings -> Search bar -> Style -> Design

Fixed Settings page: wrong position of a questions mark (Safari)

Fixed JavaScript errors in the settings page when the GeoTargetingWP plugin is active

Fixed Try to add dgwt-wcas-active class again if it has not been added by other events

Fixed Incorrect elements position after load iconMode

Fixed Incorrect adding CSS class as shortcode parameter

Fixed Building the index fails because of too long phrases

Fixed Remove redundant caching of settings in MainQuery

Fixed Multisite: building an index on the main site, breaks the indexes on other sites

Fixed TranslatePress integration: slow index building when there are products with many variations

Fixed Unnecessary initialization of fuzzy search when $config['fuzz'] was filled

Fixed Invalid CSS classes for post and page search results

Fixed Clear taxonomies cache when the settings are updated. It clears the cache only for settings related to taxonomies

Fixed Troubleshooting: test if HUSKY - Advanced searching by Text extension from WOOF - WooCommerce Products Filter plugin is active

Fixed Indexer: rounding build progress formatting

Fixed Indexer: hide error icon from menu after successfully building index

Fixed Indexer: building an index gets stuck at 100% in some rare cases

Fixed Indexer: resuming the index build as scheduled when it got stuck the previous time

Updated Freemius SDK to v2.4.4

Refactor Indexer: Replacing PDO with WPDB

Refactor Settings page: rebuild the settings section Search Bar -> Appearance to improve UX

Refactor Search bars fixer

Release Date - May 12, 2022

ADD: New feature - FiboSearch Analytics. This feature will be available to everyone in FiboSearch v1.19.0. To enable it in v1.18.0 declare constant define( 'DGWT_WCAS_ANALYTICS_ENABLE', true ); in wp-config.php

ADD: Open selected suggestion in new tab by shortcut Cmd+Enter/Ctrl+Enter

ADD: Show score in search results on the Debug page

ADD: Link darkened background and fuzzy search feature to the documentation

ADD: Allow filtering no-results response

ADD: Integration with WooCommerce Protected Categories plugin

ADD: Possibility not to translate search index fields by TranslatePress

ADD: An alternative search engine endpoint can be enabled with a constant

ADD: New filter to manipulate search results score for taxonomy terms

FIX: Improving ESC key functionality: If there are suggestions, ESC hides them. If there are not suggestions and mobile icon mode is enabled, ESC disables mobile icon mode. If there are not suggestions and darkened overlay is enabled, ESC disables darkened overlay

FIX: Allow recognizing CMD key

FIX: Remove interaction on the TAB key

FIX: Elementor popups - reinit search bars after loading Elementor's popup

FIX: Cannot open the first result with Ctrl + Enter

FIX: Prevent displaying search results, if the search icon mode is closed

FIX: Unnecessary closing mobile icon mode and darkened overlay mode after selecting text in the search bar. It used to happen often when users selected text from the search bar to remove it and write something new but clicked outside the search bar (JS mouseup event was outside the bar)

FIX: Better sanitization of the plugin settings

FIX: Unable to search taxonomies terms with ampersands

FIX: Site Health warning about active session when some plugin integrations are active

FIX: “No results” suggestion if all results have been removed in earlier filters

FIX: Excluded product variations in the “Out of stock” fixer in the Troubleshooting module

REFACTOR: Retrieving results on the search page without additional HTTP request

Release Date - February 28, 2022

ADD: New beta feature - “Darkened background”

ADD: Integration with Kadence theme

ADD: Integration with TheGem (Elementor) and renamed TheGem (WPBakery)

ADD: Comments in template files for the Details Panel

ADD: Refreshing the content on the checkout page when a product is added to the cart from the search Details Panel

ADD: Tooltip with information about overriding when an option is overridden by theme integration

ADD: Ability to replace part of the phrase before searching

FIX: Conflict between Salient theme and Shipmondo plugin

FIX: Unexpected hiding from the search bar right after the “focus” event. Bug occurred only on mobiles

FIX: Hide the Storefront handheld footer bar when the search results are open. Otherwise, handheld footer bar covers the autocomplete dropdown

FIX: Prevent toggle mobile overlay if the search bar doesn't have this mode

FIX: Non-existing table during the database repair process

FIX: Minor security issues

FIX: Fatal errors in PHP 8 when the dashboard language is set to “ru_RU”

FIX: Add artificial overlay to cover the “Close Button” because SVG elements don't provide information about parents elements in "event.target"

CHANGE: General tooltip style on the plugin settings page - more padding, bigger font, right position of the tooltip, auto cursor, wider

Release Date - February 03, 2022

ADD: Integration with a XStore theme

ADD: Allow customization of the Details Panel with actions and filters

ADD: Templating system to override details panel templates via child-theme

ADD: Troubleshooting - test if product translations are enabled in the Polylang settings

ADD: Add extra CSS classes when search bar is focused

ADD: Integration with MemberPress plugin

FIX: Compatibility with PHP 8.1

FIX: Integration with Astra theme - the “Save Changes” button disappeared after turning on the integration

FIX: JavaScript errors on the plugin activation page

FIX: Bug with enabling and disabling “overlay on mobile” feature during window resizing and reaching a breakpoint

FIX: Missing "Troubleshooting" tab icon with the number of issues

FIX: MySQL deadlocks during index building

FIX: Polylang - the search engine stopped working when one of the two languages was deactivated

FIX: Requiring file class-http.php emits deprecated warning in WordPress 5.9

Release Date - December 21, 2021

FIX: Dynamic pricing is not displaying correctly

Release Date - December 16, 2021

ADD: Integration with a Uncode theme

ADD: Integration with Uncode theme - support for dark menu skin

ADD: Possibility to submit the search event to Google Analytics in your own way

ADD: Basic support for AMP

ADD: Allow getting search results programmatically

ADD: New path for WordPress load: wp-cms

ADD: Ability to load the search endpoint from custom locations

ADD: Allow switch to the alternative search endpoint if the default is blocked

ADD: The loader icon in the “Indexer” tab while building the index

FIX: Integration with the Goya theme has stopped working

FIX: Divi theme integration - overlay on mobile was fixed. Support for new Divi ID #et_top_search_mob

FIX: Divi theme integration - search form did not disappear after exiting mobile overlay

FIX: Search suggestions were invisible because of a bug in the old version of jQuery UI. The method outerHeight() returned an object instead of a number

FIX: Simplifying integration with Polylang

FIX: PHP 8 compatibility

FIX: Identifying an index build error due to a low "max_allowed_packet" value in the MySQL server

FIX: Prevent cache indexer queue data

FIX: Remove unused directories

FIX: TranslatePress integration - wrong translation in suggestions URLs

FIX: Troubleshooting tab - the button “Fix out of stock relationships” button doesn't work

FIX: Not using search cache when its tables do not exist

CHANGE: Remove info about rebranding

Release Date - October 25, 2021

FIX: Unable to search in other languages than the default one (TranslatePress, qTranslate-XT, sometimes WPML)

Release Date - October 17, 2021

ADD: Integration with “GeneratePress” theme

ADD: Possibility to set a delay for initialization of mobile overlay

ADD: New filter to manipulate the results score

ADD: New debugging tools for an indexer

ADD: Details Panel - support for responsive images including retina images (2x), sizes, and srcset

ADD: Possibility to insert custom HTML in 5 places in the search suggestion

ADD: New filter and action hooks

ADD: Searching in custom taxonomies

ADD: Allow to easier change the order of the search results by simple code snippets

FIX: Prevent hiding search results on click an Enter key when submit is disabled via a filter

FIX: No results on search page when WPML is active with “Language name added as a parameter” option

FIX: Support for version v1.3.1 of Open Shop theme

FIX: Integrating with Divi theme - delay in starting JS scripts

FIX: Integrating with Divi theme - force search overlay for mobile devices

FIX: Unnecessary HTML tags in the search input after selecting a suggestion

FIX: Hide mobile overlay after submitting a form or clicking a result. Fixes screen after clicking iPhone back arrow

FIX: [Troubleshooting] Fixed false negative in “OutOfStockRelationships test”. An order of arrays was taken into account for the diff function. It was replaced by full diff

FIX: Unnecessary hiding all products in Woocommerce Memberships plugin (version < 1.22)

FIX: Prevent an PDO error with the message “There is no active transaction”

FIX: Prevent an fatal error with the message “Call to undefined function admin_url()” during search

FIX: Unable to search products with very long SKU (more than 100 chars)

FIX: No search results if B2BKing is active and hiding products is disabled

FIX: Prevent errors while searching phrases that contain only spaces

FIX: Unclosed tag <a/>

FIX: Typo on Troubleshooting tab

FIX: Clear “alt” attribute in the product thumbnail

FIX: Disabling search cache when its tables do not exist

REFACTOR: Direct passing items set to searchable indexer instead using DB

REFACTOR: Escape search terms the way WordPress core does

REFACTOR: Replacing image with thumbnails in "DgoraWcas\Post" class to keep a consistent style compared with "DgoraWcas\Product"

Release Date - July 27, 2021

ADD: Integration with "eStore" theme

ADD: Allow to open search result in new tab with Ctrl+left mouse key

ADD: Integration with "Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce" plugin

ADD: Ability to search in the content generated by the specified shortcodes

ADD: Integration with WooCommerce Memberships plugin

ADD: New filter to manipulating products score

ADD: Integration with "Premmerce Brands for WooCommerce" plugin

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - add test if MySQL server has support to InnoDB engine

FIX: Disappearing suggestions and details panel on click when there were more search bars

FIX: Improved integration with "Avada" theme

FIX: Improved mobile search in new version of "Rehub" theme

FIX: Unable to use context menu and middle mouse button on search results

FIX: "Eletro" theme - Support cases when the search overlay is disabled

FIX: Identifying error "MySQL server has gone away"

FIX: Brand related filters can now be used in a theme

FIX: Change empty DB_HOST for IPv4 address

FIX: PHP Warning in the indexer logs (rare case): array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given

FIX: TranslatePress - randomly untranslated URLs of objects as they were added to the index

REFACTOR: Clean up composer files

Release Date - June 22, 2021

ADD: Integration with Electro theme

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - test language codes

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - check if the Elementor Pro has defined correct template for search results

ADD: Support for “ACF” fields in the “Search in custom fields” list

ADD: Support for “ACF Table” field in the “Search in custom fields” list

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - test if the index was built by the current plugin version

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - test "Out of stock" relationships

ADD: Compatibility with “Permalink Manager for WooCommerce” plugin

ADD: Support for qTranslate-XT

FIX: “WOOF – Products Filter for WooCommerce” - disappearing filters if “Dynamic recount” and “Hide empty terms” was enabled and other issues

FIX: TranslatePress v1.9.8 and higher - results on the search page were different from the results in the autocomplete

FIX: Remove unnecessary AJAX request on select “See all products ... (X)”

FIX: The search form is now generated without random ID, to be compatible with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin

FIX: Order terms by total_products if there is the same score

FIX: Better index rebuild enforcement when the plugin version changes

FIX: PHP WARNING json_decode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

FIX: Not using the getmypid() function when it has been disabled

FIX: Do not index term if isn't associated with any object

FIX: The "Search in description" option now also applies to variations of products

FIX: Reindex related products after edit/delete term. Applies to category, tag, brand and attribute

FIX: Add another alternative location of wp-load.php file: wordpress/wp-load.php

REFACTOR: Change .dgwt-wcas-suggestion element from <div> to <a> to allow open a suggestion in a new tab

Release Date - May 24, 2021

ADD: Integration with Goya theme

ADD: Integration with Top and Top Store Pro theme

ADD: Keep the state of a details panel in memory instead of replacing it every time using jQuery.html() method. Doesn't clear quantity and "add to cart" states

ADD: Prevent submit empty form

ADD: Possibility to index only products belonging to the indicated categories, tags or groups of attributes

ADD: Show category thumbnails in autocomplete suggestions

ADD: Show brand thumbnails in autocomplete suggestions

FIX: W3 validator warning: The type attribute for the style element is not needed and should be omitted

FIX: Search terms with apostrophes

FIX: Synchronization with the native WooCommerce option "Out of stock visibility"

FIX: Hiding an unnecessary line in the product details when there is no description

FIX: Adding polyfill for supporting “includes” in Internet Explorer 11

FIX: Better elements positioning on the "Starting" tab on the plugin settings page

FIX: Support for custom Google Analytics object name

FIX: Better handling “plus” and “minus” buttons for a quantity field

FIX: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_review_count() on null

FIX: Displaying the search box off screen on mobile devices

FIX: Correct way for rebuilding autocomplete feature on an input by manually recalling dgwtWcasAutocomplete(). Remove more events on dispose method

FIX: Highlight single chars in autocomplete results

FIX: Add trim on query value

FIX: Clear search title and phrase from escape characters

FIX: Indexer errors when only one language is active in WPML

FIX: Rebuilding index when WPML active languages change

FIX: Composer - allow to use PHP 7.0.x

FIX: Variations are also excluded when the “Exclude 'out of stock' products” option is active

FIX: AJAX endpoint search.php now send a proper empty response if language is invalid

FIX: Identifying an indexer error related to a database connection limit

FIX: Indexing variations when updating a single product

FIX: Logging indexer timeout warning and show solution for it when indexer stuck

FIX: Exclude terms in search result matched by “Exclude/include products” option

FIX: “WOOF – Products Filter for WooCommerce” - correct results after using filter or pagination and counters next to the filters

FIX: InnoDB engine forcing in index tables

REFACTOR: Standardize filters name and define indexer set items count in one place

CHANGE: Decrease searchable indexer set items count from 100 to 50

Release Date - April 22, 2021

ADD: Possibility to disable select event on suggestions (click and hit the Enter key)

ADD: Possibility to disable submit a search form via a filter

ADD: New tool for debugging a indexer

ADD: Notifying user (via icon) of an indexer error or index build delay

ADD: Improving a search index build in the background

ADD: New light method for building a search index - synchronously mode

FIX: Not working click event on suggestions after using “back arrow” on a Safari browser

FIX: Allow to recognize Chinese lang codes such as zh-hant and zh-hans

FIX: Error on PHP 8. Wrong format for printf function

FIX: When searching for something and then clicking “back arrow”, the “✕” for closing remained

FIX: Wrong path in restoration theme

FIX: Better checking of nonces

FIX: Handle efficiently long queries by limiting characters and tokens when searching

FIX: Correct handling of terms in which characters can be written differently eg. “läßt” and “lässt”

FIX: Sort search results by popularity - “desc” instead “asc”

FIX: Better detection when the indexer is stuck

FIX: Skip collecting irrelevant MySQL errors by Query Monitor

FIX: Troubleshooting - improvement of checking database connection by PDO

FIX: Duplicate attributes in the variant title

FIX: Indexer errors when only one language is active in TranslatePress

FIX: Integration with WooCommerce Product Filter by WooBeWoo - no products with AJAX filtering

FIX: Unnecessary sorting when fetching products with search results

FIX: Allow to delete product from an index after making order

FIX: Limit the search scope for multiple keywords as single letters

REFACTOR: Troubleshooting - improved detection of problems with WP-Cron

REFACTOR: Better indexer error handling

REFACTOR: Build an index for variants in a separate background process

REFACTOR: Build an index for taxonomies in a separate background process

REMOVE: Excessive scheduler actions fixer was removed

Release Date - March 15, 2021

ADD: Support for WooCommerce Private Store plugin

ADD: TranslatePress integration

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - test if PDO can connect to DB

ADD: Support for search products, post and pages with no translation in WPML (WPML settings: "Translatable - use translation if available or fallback to default language")

CHANGE: Plugin rebranding - Replace the plugin name AJAX Search for WooCommerce with new name FiboSearch

CHANGE: Plugin rebranding - Replace the old domain ajaxsearch.pro with new fibosearch.com

CHANGE: Plugin rebranding - Update visual assets

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK to v2.4.2

CHANGE: New alternate shortcode [fibosearch] instead of [wcas-search-form]

CHANGE: Min supported version of PHP is 7.0

FIX: Fixed PHP Warning: json_decode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

FIX: Fixed Chrome lighthouse insights

FIX: Missing of dgwt-wcas-active class when the search was focused too early

FIX: Grammar and spelling errors in texts

FIX: Speed up placeholder search engine when

REMOVE: Removed useless dgwt-wcas-search-submit name attribute

REMOVE: Removed unused search forms from a Avada theme

REFACTOR: Move product related logic from Updater.php to Product.php

Release Date - February 03, 2021

ADD: Support for Astra theme

ADD: Support for Avada theme - replacing a fusion search form

ADD: Support for Open Shop theme

ADD: Support for Divi - menu in custom header and hiding search results when opening a search overlay

ADD: Support for CiyaShop theme

ADD: Support for BigCart theme

ADD: Support for WCMP Marketplace

ADD: New option to exclude products belonging to the indicated categories, tags or groups of attributes

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - valid search results

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - check if WooCommerce Multilingual is active when site uses WPML

ADD: New test for the troubleshooting module - check if conflicted plugin YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search is installed

ADD: Integration with WooCommerce Catalog Visibility Options plugin

ADD: Integration with B2BKing plugin

ADD: Integration with Brands for WooCommerce plugin by BeRocket

ADD: Integration with brands solution delivered by WP Bingo themes

ADD: Limit the number of fields to be searched using the native engine when the search index is not ready

FIX: Increase the clickable area of the 'back button' in the overlay mobile mode

FIX: Disappearing search bar especially on Firefox

FIX: Hide new aggressive admin notices added by other plugins

FIX: Hide shortcodes in the Details Panel

FIX: Divi theme integration - Prevent to focus input if it isn't empty. Fix case with more search bars in #main-header selector

FIX: Adaptation to the new class name convention of WooCommerce Product Table plugin

FIX: Fixed display of category names and tags in the Details Panel when the name contains an apostrophe

FIX: Support for other language code like xx-xx

FIX: Add attributes names of variations for search suggestions

FIX: Easiest way of removing the search index from the database

FIX: Bug related to run the search index process in loop for timezone GMT+11 and similar

FIX: Incorrect language for post/pages

FIX: Avoiding infinite index rebuilding when there are no products

FIX: Add alternate WP loading path for Themosis Framework

Release Date - December 04, 2020

ADD: Support for Rehub theme

ADD: Support for Supro theme

FIX: Troubleshooting module improvements

FIX: Blinking suggestions

FIX: Bug in icon colors

FIX: Flatsome theme - quantity buttons issue

FIX: Divi theme - hide extra search bar in footer

FIX: Mobile overlay improvements for iPhones

FIX: Better suggestion order for non latin letters

FIX: Action URL in search form when Polylang is active

FIX: Performance - prevent queuing redundant actions in Action Scheduler and remove unnecessary

FIX: Undefined function admin_url() during some search request

REMOVE: Mobile Detect library

Release Date - October 23, 2020

ADD: Support for Sober theme

ADD: Support for Divi theme

ADD: Support for Block Shop theme

ADD: Support for Enfold theme

ADD: Support for Restoration theme

ADD: Support for Salient theme

ADD: Support for Konte theme

ADD: New filter and action hooks

ADD: <br> to HTML whitelist for search suggestions

ADD: Allow to add search icon as menu item

ADD: Allow to change colors of search icon

ADD: Troubleshooting module on the plugin settings page

ADD: Support for Hyyan WooCommerce Polylang Integration plugin

ADD: Integration with WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugin - visibility of products and prices

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK to v2.4.1

CHANGE: Replace old close "x" icon with Material Design icons

FIX: Empty search results on search results page

FIX: Support Touchpad click for some devices

FIX: Mixed Content on the plugin settings page in some cases

FIX: Integration with Flatsome theme

FIX: Broken translations via WPML String Translation

FIX: Wrong time in Scheduling Indexing feature

FIX: Bug in synonyms regex

FIX: Add primary keys to few DB tables to improve compatibility with DigitalOcean hosting

FIX: Automatic select variation suggestion after submit the form

FIX: Support for WooCommerce Products Visibility - show products if there are no rules yet

FIX: Improved integration with JetSmartFilters and JetWooBuilder plugins

FIX: Support for adoptive options feature in Product Filter for WooCommerce (by XforWooCommerce) plugin

FIX: Issues related to high CPU usage

FIX: Improved checking if Polylang plugin is active

FIX: Bug with DB collation in specific cases

Release Date - July 12, 2020

ADD: Integration with FacetWP plugin

ADD: Support for Shopkeeper theme

ADD: Support for The7 theme

ADD: Support for Avada theme

ADD: Support for Shop Isle theme

ADD: Support for Shopical theme

ADD: Support for Ekommart theme

ADD: Support for Savoy theme

ADD: Support for Sober theme

ADD: Support for Bridge theme

ADD: Possibility to change search icon color

ADD: New filter hook for a search form value

ADD: Support for Site Search module in Google Analytics

ADD: Support fro brand served via Martfury Addons plugin, the part of the Martfury theme

ADD: Integration with WooCommerce Products Visibility plugin

FIX: Add CSS border-box for each elements in search bar, suggestions and details panel

FIX: Sending events to Google Tag Manager

FIX: Remove <b> from product title

FIX: Search by categories and tags for Russian terms

FIX: Duplicated category in breadcrumb

FIX: No results when searching for phrase included apostrophe or double quote

FIX: Details panel - Remove HTML from titles attribute

FIX: Fixed for integration with Woo Product Filter plugin by WooBeWoo

FIX: Fixed for integration with XforWooCommerce plugin

FIX: Error: Undefined index: is_taxonomy in some cases

FIX: Better relevancy for exact match product title or SKU

FIX: Displaying product variation in the Details Panel

Release Date - May 17, 2020

FIX: Selecting suggestions issue

Release Date - May 17, 2020

ADD: Icon search instead of search bar (beta)

ADD: Improvements on search results pages

ADD: Integration with native WooCommerce filters

ADD: Integration with Advanced AJAX Product Filters plugin by BeRocket

ADD: Integration with WOOF – Products Filter for WooCommerce plugin by realmag777

ADD: Integration with Product Filters for WooCommerce plugin by Automattic developed by Nexter

ADD: Integration with Woo Product Filter plugin by WooBeWoo

ADD: Integration with WooCommerce Product Table plugin by Barn2 media

ADD: Support for TheGem theme

ADD: Support for Impreza theme

ADD: Support for Medicor theme

ADD: Support for WoodMart theme

ADD: Support for Polylang

ADD: New filter and action hooks

ADD: Dynamically loaded prices for WPML Multi-currency feature

ADD: Update search index for parent product on variation change

ADD: New filter hook to search products by category description

ADD: New filter hook to disable updater. Useful when importing large dataset

CHANGE: Remove outdated backward compatibility system

CHANGE: Move wp_register_style under the wp_enqueue_scripts hook

FIX: Mobile search - don't hide suggestions on blur

FIX: Bug related to highlight keywords. For some cases it displayed <strong> tag

FIX: Delay on mouse hover effect

FIX: Minor CSS improvements

FIX: Broken mobile view on cart page in some cases

FIX: AJAX endpoint - support for WP directory structure of Flywheel hosting

FIX: Synonyms feature - better replacement special chars

FIX: Synonyms feature - support for Cyrillic

FIX: Synonyms feature - more matching synonyms to single text

FIX: Press ENTER key on "See all products..."

FIX: Loading unexpected PorterStemmer

FIX: Better search order - extra score for exact match

FIX: Admin settings - better manage custom fields (Selectize)

FIX: Redirect to product variation with preselected attributes instead of open search results page (on submit)

FIX: Wrong search expression when special chars exist

FIX: Displaying no results when search engine found nothing

FIX: Not working action scheduler

Release Date - March 11, 2020

ADD: Details panel - display stock quantity

ADD: Support for YITH WooCommerce Brands Add-on (free version)

ADD: Support for Perfect WooCommerce Brands support

ADD: Better search for phrases include special chars

ADD: Update a product info in search index after make changes via WooCommerce REST API

CHANGE: Rename jQuery object from Autocomplete to DgwtWcasAutocompleteSearch because of namespaces conflicts

FIX: Better support for the Elementor including popups and sticky menu

FIX: Better support for page builders. Late initialization

FIX: Disabling automatic regenerate thumbnails. Conditionally images regeneration

FIX: HTTP 500 on getResultDetails for some cases

FIX: Too long description in live suggestions

FIX: Add non-breaking space for prices

FIX: JS errors Failed to execute 'getComputedStyle' on 'Window' (for some cases)

FIX: Better sync on search results page

FIX: Support for Advanced AJAX Product Filters by BeRocket

FIX: Synonyms in Vietnamese

FIX: Issues related to multi currencies in WPML

FIX: Issues related to "out of stock" status

FIX: Non-indexing products in WPML (for some cases)

FIX: Search issues when fuzzy search feature is disabled

Release Date - February 18, 2020

ADD: Details Panel - new layout for product overview and other UX improvements

ADD: Automatically regenerates images after first plugin activation

ADD: Synonyms

ADD: Search by tags

ADD: Filter for all labels for easier overwriting

ADD: Action hook on indexer completed

FIX: Minor issues in search preview in the settings

FIX: Details panel - hide "add to cart" button after adding - fix for some themes

FIX: Details panel - display overview for post and page suggestion type

FIX: Details panel - display overview for brand suggestion type

FIX: Better product short descriptions for suggestion and details panel

FIX: Repair the index rebuild after changing settings

FIX: Highlighted no results suggestion

FIX: Better security

Release Date - January 26, 2020

ADD: Scheduling Indexing via the plugin settings

ADD: Builds the index asynchronously after save or delete products. Does not block the product edit logic

ADD: Support for Bedrock default ABSPATH

ADD: Search debugger

ADD: Update a search index after call create/update and delete methods via WooCommerce REST API

ADD: Details Panel - grouped load, faster load

ADD: New way to embed search box - embedding by menu

ADD: Details panel - show "more products..." link for taxonomy type suggestion

ADD: Add <form> to quantity elements in a details panel

ADD: New filters and actions hook

CHANGE: Increase limit for GROUP_CONCAT (group_concat_max_len) to 100000

CHANGE: Disable search by title for post/pages by default

CHANGE: Decrease debounce time for better speed effect

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK v2.3.2

FIX: Always submit form on press ENTER key

FIX: Switch to Native WP search engine when the index isn't completed

FIX: Exclude from cache update_option in the indexer

FIX: Stemmer - Backward compatibility

FIX: Product variations exact match

FIX: Better order by score for post and pages

FIX: Permalink for variable products

FIX: Indexer progress bar percent overload in some cases

FIX: Table dgwt_wcas_tax_index - SQL error for CREATE INDEX Statement

FIX: Minor indexer errors

FIX: Variable products SKU exact match - show variant only if it has own SKU

FIX: Search by meta fields - better meta key validation

FIX: WPML - Support for hidden languages

FIX: Automatic index update after changing settings: show pages, show posts

FIX: Better rules for checking "out of stock" products

FIX: MySQL connector - fix bug related to empty charset

FIX: Issue related to colors in plugin settings

FIX: Suggestions groups - improved limits

FIX: Pricing for taxonomy term in a details panel

FIX: Show a details panel on keys UP and DOWN

FIX: Mobile search overlay - block scroll of <html> tag (issue on iPhones)

FIX: Better data-wcas-context ID, bypasses opcache

FIX: W3C - Accessibility errors

FIX: Storefront mobile search - more time for input autofocus

FIX: Disable quantity for Astra Pro theme - there were broken buttons

FIX: Minor CSS improvements

Release Date - December 08, 2019

ADD: Search by variation products description

ADD: WPML support

ADD: Support for booster.io - Visibility by Country

ADD: Support for booster.io - Prices by Country

ADD: New translations

ADD: Non-product search - posts

ADD: Non-product search - pages

ADD: Possibility to change collation

ADD: Wptexturize support

ADD: Suggestions groups

ADD: Hide advanced settings

ADD: Better grouping of settings

ADD: Support for Google Analytics events

ADD: Search bar preview in settings

ADD: New action and filters hooks

CHANGE: Removing all custom DB tables and options after removing the plugin

CHANGE: Removing all custom DB tables before build new search index

CHANGE: Rename class Buildier to Builder

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

REMOVE: Search engine based on SQLite

FIX: Flatsome theme support for [search] shortcode

FIX: Images in details panel

FIX: Custom attributes support

FIX: Indexer improvements

FIX: Post IDs bigger than 2147483647

FIX: Support for unexpected and bad output from methods of WC_Product class

REMOVE: Remove ontouch event from mobile detect

Release Date - September 21, 2019

FIX: Infinite loop after plugin activation (for some users)

FIX: Updating brands in the search index after saving product

FIX: Updating custom fields in the search index after saving product

Release Date - September 16, 2019

ADD Search by custom fields

ADD Search by brands (support for WooCommerce Brands and YITH WooCommerce Brands Add-on Premium)

ADD Show also matching brands in the autocomplete suggestions similar to category and tags

ADD: Integration with the Flatsome theme. It is possible to replace the Flatsome search form via one checbox in the plugin settings page

CHANGE: Update/sync fork of devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete to the latest version

CHANGE: Settings design

FIX: Indexer issues with shared hosting and PHP FPM limitations

FIX: Empty plugin logo in the opt-in form

FIX: Bug with post ID larger that 8388607

FIX: Overload servers. Optimization for chain AJAX requests. Creates a debounced function that delays invoking func until after wait milliseconds have elapsed since the last time the debounced function was invoked

FIX: Better support for HTML entities in products title and description

FIX: Issues with mobile search version on Storefront theme for iPhones

Release Date - August 05, 2019

ADD: Filter for search results output

ADD: French translations

CHANGE: Improving the logger

CHANGE: Reduction of supported operators for the boolean search feature to only '&' and '|'

CHANGE: More relevant results for SKUs

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

FIX: Better support for fixed menu

FIX: Add box-sizing to the search input to better implementation for some themes

FIX: Duplicated class Mobile_Detect in some cases

FIX: Submit button position in some cases

FIX: Zoom in iPhones on focused input

FIX: Size of images for categories and tags in the Details panel

FIX: Improvements in MySQL connections

FIX: Support for SSL MySQL connections

FIX: Increase term column size to 127 chars

FIX: Add DEFAULT value for lang table in DB

FIX: Update index after changes in terms

FIX: Show terms even there are no relevant products

Release Date - May 04, 2019

ADD: New modern mobile search UX (beta, disabled by default, enabled only for Storefront theme)

ADD: Italian translations

ADD: Spain translations

CHANGE: Migration from SQLite to MySQL

CHANGE: Remove unimportant files from vendor

CHANGE: Implementing flexbox grid (CSS)

FIX: Problem with duplicated SKU

FIX: Error with empty attributes

FIX: Minor search improvements

FIX: Support for <sup> tag

FIX: Support or HTML entities in categories and terms names

FIX: Error with WP Search WooCommerce Integration

FIX: Conflict with the Divi theme for some cases

Release Date - March 02, 2019

ADD: New logos

CHANGE: Longer search time limit for searchable index building process

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

FIX: Indexer improvements

FIX: Support for tokenizer after updating a product

FIX: Multiple SKU variations

FIX: Deactivate browser native "X" icon for search input

FIX: Products images for tags and categories in Details panel

FIX: Security fix

Release Date - February 17, 2019

FIX: Order by price on the search results page

Release Date - February 16, 2019

ADD: Add the tokenizer. Better support for "-" and "." in the search terms

ADD: Emergency mode for the indexer

ADD: Better errors logging (only for PHP 7)

ADD: Filters support in the SHORTINIT mode

ADD: The WP Background Processing package hosted independently

ADD: The text "No results" and "See all results..." can be customized in the plugin settings

ADD: New filters and hooks

CHANGE: Add the "booleanSearch" as a default search mode

CHANGE: Enforcing use "box-sizing: border-box" within the search form

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

FIX: Infinite loop in the indexer in some cases

FIX: Better highlighting results

FIX: Wrong scoring by SKU

FIX: PHP error with $_SERVER variable

FIX: The errors with indexing products with the status "Out of the stock"

FIX: The error with artificially duplicated search forms occurred in the Mega Menu plugin and some themes

FIX: The error with missing Apache "headers" extension

FIX: Hide the "Account" link in the free plugin versions

FIX: The error with the appearance of the tags suggestion

FIX: Problem with artificially duplicated search forms occurred in the Mega Menu plugin and some themes

Release Date - January 06, 2019

FIX: PHP error with widget

Release Date - January 06, 2019

ADD: Speed up search by new search engine based on inverted index

ADD: Fuzzy search

ADD: Search by variation products SKUs

ADD: Search by product attributes

ADD: If there are more results than limit, the "See all results..." link will appear

ADD: Information about the PRO features

ADD: Breadcrumbs for nested product categories

FIX: Better synchronization between the ajax search results and the search page

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

FIX: Improvements in the scoring system

FIX: Image placeholder for products without image

FIX: Add SKU label translatable in the suggestions

Release Date - October 26, 2018

ADD: Storefront support as a option. Allows to replace the native Storefront search form

FIX: Improving the relevance of search results by adding score system

FIX: Problem with too big images is some cases

FIX: Support for HTML entities in the search results

FIX: Bugs with the blur event on mobile devices

Release Date - August 24, 2018

ADD: Backward compatibility system

ADD: Support of image size improvements in Woocommerce 3.3

ADD: Dynamic width of the search form

ADD: Option to set max width of the search form

ADD: DISABLE_NAG_NOTICES support for admin notices

ADD: More hooks for developers

ADD: Minified version of CSS and JS

ADD: Label for taxonomy suggestions

ADD: Quantity input for a add to cart button in the Details panel

CHANGE: Code refactor for better future development. Composer and PSR-4 support (in part)

CHANGE: Better settings organization

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

FIX: Problem with covering suggestions by other HTML elements of themes

FIX: Details panel in RTL

FIX: Improvements for the IE browser

Release Date - April 22, 2018

CHANGE: PHP requires tag set to PHP 5.5

CHANGE: Woocommerce requires tags

CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK

FIX: Removed duplicate IDs

REMOVE: Removed uninstall.php

Release Date - October 01, 2017

FIX: Disappearing some categories and tags in suggestions

FIX: Hidden products were shown in search

Release Date - September 05, 2017

ADD: Requires PHP tag in readme.txt

FIX: PHP Fatal error for PHP < 5.3

Release Date - September 03, 2017

ADD: Admin notice if there is no WooCommerce installed

ADD: Admin notice for better feedback from users

CHANGE: Move menu item to WooCommerce submenu

FIX: Deleting the 'dgwt-wcas-open' class after hiding the suggestion

FIX: Allows to display HTML entities in suggestions title and description

FIX: Better synchronizing suggestions and resutls on a search page

Release Date - July 12, 2017

ADD: New WordPress filters

FIX: Repetitive search results

FIX: Extra details when there are no results

Release Date - June 7, 2017

FIX: Replace deprecated methods and functions in WC 3.0.x

Release Date - June 6, 2017

ADD: Added Portable Object Template file

ADD: Added partial polish translation

FIX: WooCommerce 3.0.x compatible

FIX: Menu items repeated in a search page

FIX: Other minor bugs

Release Date - October 5, 2016

NEW: Add WPML compatibility

FIX: Repeating search results for products in a admin dashboard

FIX: Overwrite default input element rounding for Safari browser

Release Date - July 24, 2016

FIX: Disappearing widgets

FIX: Trivial things in CSS

Release Date - July 22, 2016

FIX: Synchronization WP Query on a search page and ajax search query

CHANGE: Disable auto select the first suggestion

CHANGE: Change textdomain to ajax-search-for-woocommerce

Release Date - June 30, 2016

FIX: PHP syntax error with PHP version < 5.3

Release Date - June 30, 2016

FIX: Excess AJAX requests in a detail mode

FIX: Optimization JS mouseover event in a detail mode

FIX: Trivial things in CSS

Release Date - June 24, 2016

Added [Option] Exclude out of stock products from suggestions

Added [Option] Overwrite a suggestion container width

Added [Option] Show/hide SKU in suggestions

Added Add no results note

Fixed Search by products SKU

Fixed Trivial changes in CSS and JS files

Release Date - June 5, 2016

Added Javascript and CSS dynamic compression

Fixed Incorrect dimensions of the custom preloader

Release Date - May 17, 2016

Added First public release