WP Fast Total Search - The Power of Indexed Search

🚀 Supercharge Your WordPress Search with WP Fast Total Search (WPFTS)! Tired of the standard WordPress search that doesn't find what you need? Are your users struggling to find content hidden in meta fields, shortcodes, or even files? WP Fast Total Search (WPFTS) is the solution that revolutionizes search on your site, making it truly fast, accurate, and comprehensive. Why WPFTS is Exactly What You Need: ✨ Searches EVERYWHERE: Unlike standard search, WPFTS indexes and finds information not only in post titles and content, but also within:

• Meta fields (Custom Fields)
• Custom Post Types
• Text inside shortcodes
• Content of attached files (PDF, DOCX, etc. in the Pro version)
• Dynamically generated content

⚙️ Simplicity and Compatibility:

• No External Dependencies: Doesn't require installing heavy external services (like Elasticsearch or Solr). Perfect for standard shared hosting!
• Enhances, Doesn't Replace: WPFTS enhances the standard WordPress search (WP_Query), it doesn't break it. All your plugins and themes using standard search will automatically work better with WPFTS.
• Works Out-of-the-Box: Just install and activate.

🎯 Flexibility and Control:

• Customizable Relevance: Control what matters most in search results! Assign "weights" for title, content, and each meta field using an improved TF-IDF algorithm.
• Live Search (AJAX): Let users see search results instantly as they type. Easily added via the widget or shortcode [wpfts_widget].
• Phrase Search Support: Find exact matches.
• Flexible Sorting: Sort results by relevance, date, title, and many other parameters.

Key Advantages of WPFTS:

• ✅ True Indexed Search: Fast and efficient.
• ✅ No External Libraries or Services Required: Everything works right inside your website.
• ✅ HTML Cleanup: Correctly indexes content by removing tags and comments (important for Gutenberg).
• ✅ Language Support: Ready translations (English, German, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian) and easy to add your own.
• ✅ API and Documentation: Extend and customize the plugin to fit your needs.
• ✅ Compatibility: Works great with PHP 5.6 up to PHP 8.2+.
• ✅ Extensibility: Supports add-ons, with a large library available and the ability to create your own.

💎 Get Even More with WP Fast Total Search Pro! The Pro version unlocks powerful features:

• 📄 Search Inside File Content: Indexes text within PDF, DOC, DOCX, and other formats.
• 🔍 Filter Search by File Type (MIME-type).
• 💡 Smart Excerpts: Displays PDF content snippets directly in search results.
• ☁️ Optional External Service for text extraction from files (license included).
• 🤝 Priority Technical Support: Help with installation, configuration, and conflict resolution.
• 🔄 Regular Auto-Updates: Just like plugins from the WordPress repository.
• 🧩 Premium Add-on Bundle: Integrations with popular plugins (WordPress Download Manager, Filebase Pro, Delicious Downloads, etc.) to index their content and files. Ability to request custom add-on development.

TEST DRIVE - TRY FOR FREE | GET PRO 💎 🌍 Translations We are grateful to the translators who made the plugin accessible worldwide:

• torkeller (@torkeller) for German and German_formal
• Peter Smits @psmits1567 for Dutch
• Lera Suhanova for Ukrainian
• epsiloncool @epsiloncool for Russian

Join us in translating the plugin into your language! Let's make it useful for everyone. 📚 Documentation Detailed information can be found in the Documentation.

1.79.274

• Security fix to close non-critical breach

1.79.270

• Approved compatibility with Wordpress 6.8

1.79.269

• Made plugin description user-friendly

1.79.268

• Added a support for WP native core/post-excerpt block
• Sufficiently improved an IRules statistics calculation speed to prevent multiple runs when several admins are working on WordPress
• Fixed a security breach in AJAX request processing code

1.79.264

• Fixed a potential security breach in updateindex AJAX request

1.79.262

• Added Gutenberg WP Blocks support (WPFTS Live Search Widget is now available for block themes)
• Added request protection (nonce) for Rebuild Index AJAX Request and Try DB Update Request. Huge thanks to @Mika from PatchStack for discovering this!
• Added Stemming support for query words.
• Improved Divi Theme compatibility support.
• Fixed Notice in Smart Excerpts sorting algorithm.

1.78.258

• Added compatibility hook functionalities for themes
• Fixed a bug with "score" value preventing it from displaying

1.77.256

• Fixed a problem with memory_limit value conversion when it's given in Gigabytes (G).
• Fixed a problem with "style" and "script" tags removal from the indexing when the corresponding option is set.

1.76.254

• Fixed some issues with autocomplete (Live Search Widget functions)

1.75.250

• Increased core algorithm search speed (especially for popular words)
• Added "Relevance Finetune" Settings. Alpha version, try with care.

1.74.247

• Fixed possible loop while updating DB and error happen
• Added detailed info on DB update fail so admin can ask technical support (us) what to do
• Fixed "Check Rules" link (was wrong for websites with /subfolder/ URLs)

1.73.245

• Fixed some issues with database syncronization
• Fixed some notices appeared on PHP8.3+
• Added support for sub-index records

1.72.240

• Fixed wrong database structure syncronization while plugin updates (thanks to Rafael Fischmann / @rfischmann !)

1.71.238

• Added Smart Text Fragments functionality that allows to see clicked sentences on the full post page and highlights searched words (still in alpha)
• Added an ability to limit query log size via Analytics / Query Log / Settings

1.70.236

• Fixed CSRF Vulnerability detected by Majed Refaea (thanks a lot!)

1.69.234

• Fixed XSS Vulnerability detected by justakazh and Majed Refaea (thanks, guys!)

1.68.232

• Urgent fix for MySQL older versions: VARCHAR index size limit.

1.67.231

• Changed logo and style of the plugin
• Fixed warning in indexer (no finish_ts variable found)
• Fixed indexing on bad words found (some non-latin words incorrectly indexed by MySQL that's why inserting to the vectors table failed)
• IRules logic changed to be compatible with the wpfts_irule/filters
• Fixed plugin styling on non-english WP installations (the plugin admin interface was completely broken in NL, for example)
• Added support for non-string chunks

1.65.225 This release is a result of a lots of improvements, fixes and updates.

• The internal code structure has been improved to make it easier to read and edit
• Improved compatibility with the latest version of Wordpress
• Enormous work has been done to increase code security
• Added support for indexing rules
• Added the ability to configure post_type and post_status to create the main index
• Added check and warning if the amount of script memory is insufficient for correct operation
• Fixed errors in the operation of presets
• Fixed errors in fast search in the Wordpress control panel
• Fixed errors in logging search queries
• Added processing of special clusters __debug and __used_rules
• Script execution session time increased to 60 seconds when indexing (if allowed by your hosting provider)
• Improved plugin performance with PHP8.3.6
• The Flare service now automatically reconnects when the connection is lost, and if the connection is successful, it blocks AJAX ping to relieve the server from frequent AJAX requests.

1.61.215

• Added Flare re-connection to prevent falling back to the polling scheme after some time or when network lost
• Fixed broken "default search logic" setting
• Added experimental "Indexing Rules" tab

1.60.213

• Fixed Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability issue in WPFTS :: Live Search widget. Thanks to Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_ from VNPT-VCI) for discovering this issue!

1.59.211

• Fixed another bug with "tp" table

1.59.209

• Fixed a bug with constantly growing "tp" table
• Improved compatibility with WP 6.3.2
• Removed extra files / Some clean up

1.58.207

• Fixed a bug with memory_limit = -1 that can be set on some hostings
• Improved compatibility with WP 6.3.1

1.57.205

• Fixed a MySQL bug with indexing some words contains specific hieroglyphic literals (Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc)
• Fixed a bug with logging

1.56.203

• Some bugs fixed

1.55.201

• Officially changed the plugin's name to "WP Fast Total Search"
• The code was reorganized to be clearer and simpler to update
• The plugin's description was improved
• Added Query Log details page
• Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.2.1 and PHP 8.2+
• Improved block-based themes support
• Added smart updater for database allowed to preserve current index while updating the plugin version
• The main search algorithm was redone to be sufficiently less RAM-consuming and faster
• Fixed 21 issues in the code

1.51.178

• Query Log analyzer added
• Index Browser added
• Fixed 9 small issues

1.50.175

• Improved support for Block-based themes (in particular, 2022) - Smart Excerpts is now shown in those themes
• Preparations for the modular structure
• Maybe added a lot of bugs, please report! (will be fixed soon)

1.50.168

• Compatibility with WP 6.0
• Fixed bugs with Live Search widget
• Fixed 5 minor bugs

1.49.164

• Localization-related fixes
• Analytics submenu added
• Text description fixed

1.48.162

• Added more flexibility for WPFTS Live Search widget and widget shortcode

1.48.156

• Added "Remove non-text HTML nodes" functionality
• Fixed 3 issues

1.48.150

• Increased compatibility with PHP8.0+
• Fixed 7 bugs with database access and deprecated code
• Added hooks to add flexibility to remove/add specific shortcodes from the indexing

1.47.148

• Improved style/js loading code (thanks to @nextendweb !)

1.47.146

• A course is taken to significantly improve the functionality of the plugin. Changed the design of the admin panel

1.46.140

• Added primary keys to temporary tables to let 3rd-party plugins (like backup tools) work better with wpftsi_* tables

1.45.138

• Added fail detection to the indexer to prevent stops because of 3rd party plugins' fails

1.44.134

• Fix: enforce indexer via AJAX in case the server is local with wrong DNS/hosts file or disabled CRON

1.44.132

• Replaced TRUNCATE with CREATE-RENAME-DROP to avoid system locking

1.44.130

• Added a checkbox to switch ON/OFF the search inside WP admin
• Improved indexer execution for hostings where DNS is configured incorrectly and/or native WP cron does not work properly
• Added a fix (optional, with the checkbox switch) for MariaDB issue with new experimental search option
• WPFTS Index Optimizer is switched OFF by default now (you can bring it back using the switch)
• Rebuild Index button from Attachment Edit page now works again
• Optimized IDLE mode for indexer
• Added wpfts_set_pause() method
• Visual issues fixed
• Fixed main_search tweaker routine

1.43.128

• Added Flare support
• Fixed a bug in autocomplete widget
• Added 'wpfts_is_force' parameter to WP_Query

1.42.124

• Fixed MySQL error (thanks Daan!)
• Clean up some code to remove extra Flare&Fire calls

1.42.122

• The indexer sequence and algorithm was completely rebuilt
• Pause mode was added to the indexer
• Improved indexer logging
• Added search index status to the Edit Post page

1.41.120

• Added shortcode [wpfts_widget] that lets you install search widget to any place of post/page or template

1.40.117

• Improved input parameter processing to remove dependency with is_main_query() and is_search() for repeated WP_Query calls
• Bugs fixed
• Improved compatibility with 3rd-party themes and plugins

1.39.112

• Fixed Live Search console error
• Fixed 5 minor bugs

1.39.108

• Fixed 8 bugs and issues
• Added shortcode content search support!
• Improved Smart Excerpt preparation (removed html entities)

1.38.106

• Fixed 10 big and small issues
• Added: extension port in free version
• Improved indexing speed

1.37.101

• Some fixes in the code
• Fixed forum and documentation links

1.36.98

• Word indexer was optimized for low-memory webservers
• Fixed some notices appeared for rare cases

1.35.96

• Fixed an issue with AND settings (now works again, thanks to @clapierre)
• Fixed 2 other bugs
• The notice on the Smart Excerpt Settings page was fixed

1.34.94

• Translation-related fixes

1.33.92

• Fixed an issue with index length on VARCHAR fields
• Confirmed compatibility with Wordpress 5.5
• Fixed language domain and code to be compatible with Wordpress Translate service

1.32.90

• Added support for x86 platforms (by x64 software emulation)
• Fixed notices when result is empty (thanks to Mihajlo!)
• Fixed DB collation issues (now WPFTS is using the same collation as Wordpress does)

1.31.88

• Fixed "expected to be a reference, value given" bug, thanks to @gregamer!

1.31.87

• Fixed found_posts / max_num_pages issue
• Fixed text typo

1.30.85

• Added new algorithm that supports sentences
• Deep search is now faster (no more afraid to use it)
• Character limit (3 chars) was removed
• MyISAM support was dropped
• Faster index rebuilding
• Fixed some UI/UX issues
• Fixed around 15 issues in the code

1.28.75

• Fixed some UI bugs
• Added German and German-formal translations (thanks to torkeller (@torkeller) !!!)
• Improved Russian translation

1.27.72

• Fixed UI second-level tabs bug
• Some new texts prepared for translation

1.27.70

• Changed UI logic: now tabbed
• Approved compatibility with Wordpress 5.4
• Fixed 3 small issues

1.26.67

• Fixed Smart Excerpts view issue
• Added more code for custom widgets
• Attachments caption and description are searchable now!

1.25.65

• Fixed design (now looks much better)
• Fixed text typos
• Fixed 4 small issues

1.24.62

• Fixed texts and typos
• Improved indexing speed
• Some code preparations for sentence-enabled search

1.23.58

• Fixed 3 issues
• Updated the plugin description

1.23.56

• Fixed notification windows dismiss function

1.23.54

• Fixed incompatibility with Gravity Forms and possible some other plugins

1.23.50

• Added modern design of the plugin backend. All forms and controls were rebuilt
• Fixed 5 bugs and issues

1.22.46

• Added alpha Live Search functionality

1.21.44

• Justified design
• Fixed 2 bugs

1.20.42

• Tested and approved compatibility with WP 5.3
• Fixed 3 secondary issues

1.19.40

• Fixed number to string conversion for some locales

1.18.35

• Added CSS style editor for Smart Excerpts block
• Added external parameters for WP_Query: "word_logic" and "wpfts_disable" (refer documentation)
• Fixed: Smart Excerpts now works well for content contains non-UTF-8 characters

1.17.33

• Fixed: The Smart Excerpts algorithm was completely rebuilt. Now working on any post and excerpt length. Thanks to Kathy

1.16.31

• Fixed: single UTF-8 quote issue made some "beautifyed strings" unsearchable. Fixed now. Thanks to Sophia.

1.16.29

• Fixed: make text search case insensitive not depends from MySQL config. Thanks to Sophia

1.16.27

• Fixed: search result items with zero relevance does not show anymore (BIG thanks to @bolus150 for the bugreport!)
• Added possibility to set up cluster_weights as a WP_Query parameter
• Added wpfts_cluster_weights filter
• Added Settings option to strip_tags before put post content to the index (useful for Gutenberg driven sites)

1.15.24

• Localization improved (new pot file, added __ in some places the code)

1.14.22

• Big update: lots of functions was moved from the Pro version to the Free WPFTS Version
• Interface bugs were fixed
• Relevance formula was completely rebuilt
• Reindex algorithm was sufficiently improved (now 5 times faster!)
• Word max length was increased to 255 characters

1.11.16

• Code optimizations
• Indexing speed increased

1.11.15

• Improved compatibility with Wordpress 5.2.2
• Fixed 3 small issues

1.10.14

• Fixed an issue with database locking with MYISAM
• Small interface fixes

1.10.13

• Fixed an issue with indexing
• Added compatibility with Wordpress 5.2

1.10.12

• Fixed 3 issues

1.10.11

• Improved compatibility with WP 5.1
• Fixed 7 issues

1.9.10

• Added Google-like Smart Excerpts

1.8.9

• Fixed 5 tiny bugs (thanks users for reports!)

1.8.7

• Added Multisite support

1.7.6

• Fixed 9 warnings and 21 notices while optimizing plugin for PHP 7.2
• Added support of PHP 7.2

1.7.5

• Added Main WP Search Tweaks settings

1.6.4

• Fixed a bug - it was a reason why plugin can't activate correctly on some hostings

1.6.3

• Added InnoDB support
• Added a switch of MySQL table type (InnoDB/MySQL)
• Fixed a bug with popup message

1.6.2

• Fixed MySQL queries: search speed sufficiently improved

1.6.1

• Added "Deeper Search" flag and functionality

1.6.0

• Added support for internal query filtering
• Added wpfts_search_terms filter
• Fixed some indexing speed issues

1.5.9

• Fixed Readme.txt
• Fixed queries to WP multisite support

1.5.8

• Compatibility with WP 4.8.1
• Indexing speed increased a bit (code was optimized)

1.4.6

• Added support for sites with specific DB table names

1.3.4

• Cosmetic changes

1.2.3

• Changed regexp which is splitting texts to words (non-english characters are now supported)
• Added wpftp_split_to_words filter which enables you to define your own "text splitting" algorithm

1.2.1

• Added complex query analyzer (support quotes)

1.1.7

• Added plugin icon
• Fixed description

1.1.6

• Lowered save_post hook priority to index metadata correctly

1.1.5

• Small bug fixes
• Debug logging removed

1.1.4

• Added cluster weights capability
• Plugin assigned to GPL license

1.0

• First Wordpress version

0.4

• Automatic indexing were added, over 30 bugs were fixed

0.1

• Initial edition. Basic functions added