WP Engine Search archived

WP Engine Search Integrate Elasticsearch with WordPress for users of the WP Engine platform. Background Let's face it, WordPress search is rudimentary at best. Lackluster performance, inflexible and rigid matching algorithms (which means no comprehension of 'close' queries), the inability to search metadata and taxonomy information, no way to determine categories of your results and most importantly the overall relevancy of results is poor. Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Coupling WordPress with Elasticsearch allows us to do amazing things with search including: Relevant results Autosuggest Fuzzy matching (catch misspellings as well as 'close' queries) Proximity and geographic queries Search metadata Search taxonomies Facets Search all sites on a multisite install The list goes on... Purpose Elasticsearch is a complex topic and integration results in complex problems. The goal of WP Engine Search is to fully marry WordPress with Elasticsearch. This plugin integrates with the WPQuery object returning results from Elast