Ajax Search Pro - Live WordPress Search & Filter Plugin 4.26.8

4.26.8 - 2024.04.09​

New Features​

• Ordering results by Post Modified date asc/desc is possible (issue 98)

Improvements​

• The index table custom field object indexing has been improved (issue 99)
• The meta boxes compatibility option now affects the Classic Editor buttons - they are hidden for non-selected post types (issue 96)

Fixes

• Fixed a potential compaitibility problem with Breakdance editor
• Fixed an issue with an option inconsistency
• Fixed an issue with the Advanced Title & Content fields HTML tag handler - now the tags should be correctly stripped
• Fixed an issue with the taxonomy term checkboxes - where the checkboxes does not get unchecked when they are hidden - regarless if this is enforced.

4.26.5 - 2024.03.04​

New Features​

• • Added a new argument for the advanced title and content fields "separator", which is used in joining the values, when the custom field value is an array
  • Added an option for taxonomy term filters: Filtering by parent terms should also include the results from children? If a post from child category is not directly assigned to the parent category as well, this will force the filter to still apply if the parent category is selected.
  • Added support for Advanced Custom Fields Repeater/Theme Builder fields index and search

Fixes​

• • Fixed an issue with the PDF thumbnail generator, where the thumbnail was not generated when the default image was selected.
  • PDF thumbnail generator now also checks for pre-generated thumbnails from WordPress, and use those if available and will also respect the selected image size
  • Fixed a conflict with WooCommerce ajax cart feature
  • Fixed an issue with the number range custom field filter - where redirecting to the results page with the empty filter range would end up with "0" values filled in with potential no results.

4.26.4 - 2024.02.14​

Fixes​

• • Fixed an bug with index table taxonomy and custom field search
  • Fixed a bug where the random ordering was not applied in some cases

4.26.3 - 2023.02.08
Possibly final preparation/bugfix update before 4.27

New Features​

• • Added a new query argument to allow/disallow missing WPML translations when using the site language
  • Post tag filters now allow 10 000 items in the filter box instead of the previous 400
  • vtt (subtitle) files are now supported for the media search

Fixes​

• • When using the WooCommerce {_sale_price} in advanced title or content, it will only appear if the item is on sale
  • Fixed an issue with the post type and user meta field search logic
  • Minor fixes is the internal file manager
  • Fixed an issue in the CSS generator, where in a specific configuration some assets were not picked up
  • Fixed an issue where the index table tokenizer looped and took too long to respond
  • Fixed an issue with the archive page live filter
  • Divi live pagination will work correctly for custom shop pages
  • Fixed an issue where some elementor items were duplicated in the container
  • Fixed a sorting issue with the media search
  • Fixed an issue where the variation would not show up on the WooCommerce results page
  • Fixed an accessibility issue with the Isotopic results navigation
  • Fixed various PHP 8.3 deprecation warnings
  • Added shortcode output minification, so when using the plugin shortcode in a Shortcode Block the line breaks added by WordPress autop() should be ommited
  • Many other minor fixes

Changes​

• • The advanced content fields now will respect the maximum content length (each field is trimmed to the set length)
  • Slightly improved the media indexing search

4.26.2 - 2023.03.31​

Fixes​

• • Fixed a directory permission related error
  • Fixed an issue with the ACF relationship filter parser to account for WPML languages
  • Added a few security measures for back-end ajax handlers as well as some page forms

4.26 - 2023.02.19​

Check the version 4.26 blog post for more details about the new features.

New Features​

• • Predictive search results suggestions
  • Google Tag Manager (GTM, gtm.js) support for analytics integration
  • More results feature now works with grouped results

Changes​

• • More efficient nag notices removal from the plugin back-end section
  • Vertical and Horizontal scrollbars are now displayed as overlay for a nicer output
  • Changed the results groups output - each group has a separate DIV container with distinctible CSS classes for easier customizations
  • Added a warning message for the index table settings to not close the browser tab when the indexing is active

Fixes​

• • Fixed an issue with the date filters
  • Fixed an issue with some shortcodes for the Index Table
  • Most cache related files are now moved from asp_upload to asp_cache folder
  • PDF results text preview length is now correct
  • asp_perse_filters() memory related issue fixes
  • Changed the magnifier button inner elements from DIV to SPAN (validation error fix)

4.25 - 2023.01.10​

New Features​

• PDF results thumbnail generator with ImageMagick. Please check this knowledge base for configuration.
• Support for ordering by ID for posts and user results
• Synonyms and Additional keywords now support multiple keyword phrases (separated by comma)

Changes​

• Changed the get_result_field(..) theme function signature, now it allows adding the $post argument as second parameter
• Custom field filters - Now properly support ACF Relationship fields

Fixes​

• Fixed an issue with the index table search and The events calendar plugin
• Fixed an issue with the media file search, where the content field was not correctly fetched when the PDF contents were present
• Arabic diacritic recognition for index table engine has been improved
• Fixed an issue with the Elementor "load more results" feature

4.24.2 - 2022.12.10​

New Features​

• • Added an accessibility menu under the Advanced option to control some of the aria-labels, which were not possible to change until now

Changes​

• • Keyword highlighter - now works for the search results page too
  • Keyword highlighter - now instead of using local storage, the asp_highlight query argument is used. This better determines where to use the highlighter, and can be used even globally.

Fixes​

• • Delete button on the back-end fixed
  • Added a missing aria-label to the search button
  • Added an CSS unset for min and max height for the input fields
  • Fixed an issue with the index table search, where in some cases the results vanished due to a query argument issue with WP_Query
  • Fixed an issu with the stylesheet loading by forcing the correct protocol

4.24.1 - 2022.11.25​

Changes​

• Index Table: better taxonomy term indexing, short taxonomy term names are indexed as whole words as well for more accurate matches
• Moved the aggregated asset location to the wp-content/cache/asp/ folder for better server compatibility
• Further script size and loading queue optimizations ~12% savings on default configuration

Fixes​

• Fixed an issue with the index table search and the generic filters