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@tlovett1 tlovett1 released this 20 Oct 23:25
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Version 3.5 is a very exciting release as it contains two major new features: a synonym dashboard and search term result highlighting. The synonym dashboard empowerers users to create synonym lists for searches. For example. searching "New York City" would return contain with "NYC". Search term highlighting will underline and add a CSS class to keywords within content that matches the current search.

The new version also includes a revamp of the search algorithm. This is a backwards compatibility break. If you'd like to revert to the old search algorithm, you can use the following code: add_filter( 'ep_search_algorithm_version', '3.4' );. The new algorithm offers much more relevant search results and removes fuzziness which results in mostly unwanted results for most people. If you are hooking in and modifying the search query directly, it's possible this code might break and you might need to tweak it.

Bug fixes:

  • Fix default autosuggest selector.
  • Fix facet feature $_GET parameter naming collision.
  • Autosuggest a11y fixes. Props amesplant.
  • Check $feature type before calling Feature methods. Props pdewouters.
  • Ensure trashed post is removed from Elasticsearch. Props edwinsiebel.
  • Add default permission callback to REST routes. Props dkotter.
  • Hide links to weighting and synonym dashboard if network activated. Props felipeelia.
  • Only sync post on allow listed post meta. Props felipeelia.
  • Check if site is indexable before syncing in network activated mode.
  • Fix facet widget and 3-level deep hierarchical taxonomy. Props dinhtungdu.
  • Make sure AJAX sync is disabled if EP_DASHBOARD is set to false.. Props turtlepod.

Enhancements:

  • Synonym dashboard. Props christianc1.
  • Search term highlighting. Props oscarsanchez.
  • Search algorithm improvements.
  • Improved WP Acceptance tests. Props asharirfan.
  • Rename ElasticPress submenu to "Features". Props helen.
  • Add functionality for skipping ElasticPress install.
  • Increase max supported Elasticsearch version to 7.9.
  • Add filter to prepared user meta data. Props g-kanoufi.
  • Improve Terms Feature terminology to remove confusion.
  • Add filter to facet terms query arguments. Props felipeelia.
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