Ajax Search Pro for WordPress - Live Search Plugin

Ajax search pro is the best live search engine plugin for WordPress. Highly customizable, with many features and options, giving the best results possible! Replace the WordPress search bar with a better looking, more efficient search engine.

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress – A WordPress live search plugin

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress was designed to boost the user search experience to the maximum. It provides a live ajax search, which makes the wordpress search experience more confortable. The results are presented with images (if any found), so they look more attractive and less flat. The search works with mobile devices, let it be Android or IOS powered. The search can override the default wordpress search results – so the ajax functionality is extended – replace your default theme search with only a click of a button. The search can return posts, custom post types (like WooCommerce products, BBPress forums, topics, replies), Categories, custom taxonomy terms (like product categories), users, buddypress gorups and buddypress activities as results.

More than 60 colorful, fully customizable themes will save you time with the CSS hussle, so you can focus more on the presentation.

The backend offers hundreds of options for those, who like to customize the search to the maximum. Many features were implemented based on customer feedbacks, and even more coming soon.

As of version 4.0, the plugin officially supports Visual Composer as well – so in addition an Ajax Search Pro Visual Composer addon is included within the plugin.

The plugin is updated regulary based on customer feedbacks and bug reports. Every support ticket is answered within 48 hours, usually in 12 hours (except for weekends).

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress features

MANY CONTENT TYPES SUPPORTED The search supports posts, pages and any kind of custom post type. WooCommerce, Jigoshop, wp-Ecommerce and many other plugins use custom post types – so they are all compatible with Ajax Search Pro.		FRONTEND SEARCH SETTINGS The plugin provides a customizable frontend settings interface for users. By ticking a few checkboxes the user can change the behaviour of the plugin – like looking for exact matches, including/excluding certain post types, categories or custom taxonomies (like product categories)
LAYOUT & THEMES Four built-in layouts: Vertical, Horizontal, Polaroid and Isotopic. 60+ pre-defined theme for each layout, including the ones on the demo page.		WIDGETS & SHORTCODES Three different widget are provided (latest searches, top searches and search box) and two shortcodes for each search. Shortcode buttons are also visible on the post editor.
IMAGE SUPPORT The search has built in libraries with extreme compatibility for image handling. They can parse through content, excerpt, custom fields or just simply display the featured image.		ICONS Use the variety of high resolution, vectorized and colorizable svg icons or upload your own if you want to.
ADJUSTABLE SEARCH LOGIC You can change the search logic to fit your needs. By default the plugin works with an OR logic to provide higher amount of results. If you however need more strict results, you can change this with a click. More info in the documentation search logic section.		SMART IMAGE PARSING Highly adjustable image parser ensures to show the best quality images in the results. The plugin can scan the featured, content, excerpt custom field for images.
CATEGORY, TAG & TAXONOMY TERM FILTERS Create and manage category, tag and any taxonomy term filters. Checkboxes, drop-downs and radio button layouts are all supported.		CUSTOM FIELD FILTERS For even more sophisticated layout you can create custom field filters, to give your users more advanded ways to search your content.
MULTISITE SUPPORT Having a multisite network? You can select which blogs you want to include in each individual search instance. You can search multiple blogs at the same time.		RELEVANCE SEARCH & INDEX TABLE A fully configurabe relevance options panel is provided for those, who like to fine-tune their plugins. You can switch to index table search and create indexes for even more relevant results.
VISUAL COMPOSER SUPPORT As of version 4.0 the search acts as a Visual Composer add-on as well. You can easily manage the search instances via the Visual Composer plugin.		COMPACT LAYOUT MODE No place on your site for the search widget? You can hide the search bar until the user clicks on the magnifier icon.
KEYWORD SUGGESTIONS & AUTOCOMPLETE Google keyword suggestions and autocomplete is enabled by default. The suggestions language is changeable.		KEYWORD HIGHLIGHTING The search phrase can be highlighted in the results list. You can change the color of the highlighting as well.
INDEX TABLE ENGINE Plugin version 4.5 introduces a new, index table powered search engine. This engine is capable of indexing shortcode content, for sites built with composer plugins. It’s also a huge performance saver for high traffic sites.		PERFORMANCE TRACKER Track the search query performances with the simple, built in performance tracker. It will help you optimize the search ajax speed.
SEARCH STATISTICS By enabling the search statistics will give you an insight on which phrases are the most popular on your website.		GOOGLE ANALYTICS INTEGRATION With a push of a button you can integrate google analytics to the search, so the phrases will show up as pageviews on your analytics dashboard.
CACHE For websites with higher traffic caching is provided to reduce the database queries and increase the search performance.		COMPATIBILITY Compatibility options will provide you a quick fix interface in case something is not working properly.
PERFORMANCE TRAKING The plugin will track the query performances and give you a better insight on your recent setting changes.		EXPORT AND IMPORT Want to use a working search instance on your other project? Export the search settings and import them to your other site. Easy as that.
REGULAR UPDATES The plugin recieves updates on a monthly basis, many customer requests and suggestions had been fulfilled in the past – feel free to suggest anything		CUSTOMER SUPPORT We are taking customer support very seriously. You can expect a reply within 24 hours during workdays. To open a support ticket, go to this link.

FAQ

• Will the plugin work with the * theme?
  Yes it will. The plugin is theme independent.
• Will it work on a multisite blog?
  Yes it will.
• Can it replace my default theme search bar automatically?
  Yes it can! You can select which search instance you want to display instead of the default theme search bar.
• Can I search custom post types, like WooCommerce/Jigoshop products?
  Yes you can!
• Can I search buddypress groups/activity-feed/users?
  Yes you can!
• Can the plugin return categories or custom taxonomy terms as results?
  Yes it can!
• Will it work with bigger databases, like 25000+ records?
  Yes it will. The search speed only depends on your server speed.
• Does it support sites with RTL?
  Yes it does!
• Will it display images, that are not hosted on my server?
  Yes it will. In case of issues, read this knowledge base article.
• Is support provided, if so where can I get supported?
  Yes, this item is supported! Please read the documentation and the knowledge base first. Many questions are answered there.
• Can I search files or file contents on my server?
  Unfortunately you can’t.

Newest features in version 4.9.x (2016.08.18)

• New category and taxonomy term filter options
• New grouping options
• Search box alignment option
• User related exclusions
• Date custom field filter now supports timestamp and MySQL datetime formats
• Polylang compatibility
• New themes: Round
• ASP_Query wrapper class to use as search API

Newest features in version 4.8.0 (2016.02.22)

• Post date and custom field (ACF) date filtering is now possible
• Excluding or including posts by date was added
• It is possible to set column count and width for front-end settings boxes
• The loader can be chosen to be displayed in the results box as well
• Auto-poulating search results on page loading is now possible
• Hiding the search bar and displaying filters only is now possible (filter only mode)
• An ajax page change detection script was implemented
• Triggering empty search bar is supported (setting 0 character triggering)

Check the full changelog here.

Newest features in version 4.7.0 (2016.01.16)

• Filtering by post tags is possible
• It is possible to replace the default theme search now
• Override now returns any type of result
• BuddyPress XProfile fields search
• Keyword exceptions menu on Advanced Options
• Isotope layout gutter between items is adjustable now
• Backend Options search added
• Image Display mode is now changeable
• Custom field filters with empty values are discarded now correctly

Newest features in version 4.6.0 (2015.11.27)

• Primary, Secondary sorting option added
• Conditional CSS loader script added (experimental)
• More animation options on Advanced Options panel
• An adjustable background overlay for Compact mode (fixed layout)

Newest features in version 4.5.x (2015.10.27)

• A new feature and engine: Index table search engine
• User search is now possible!
• Attachment search is now possible!
• Search text button was added
• New keyword suggestions and autocomplete sources: taxonomy terms and Custom Post Types
• WooCommerce term image integration
• Hidden input field type for custom field selectors
• Exclusion of parent-child pages is now possible
• Added a Help and Updates menu for more information
• Dynamic strings are now translatable with WPML string translations
• Update Notifications on the plugins menu (in beta)
• Rerirection to the first matching result
• Displaying result content in context around the keyword

New features in version 4.0 (2015.03.18)

• Visual composer addon included
• New menu: Export/Import settings – you can export all your search instances, or individual instance settings
• New menu: Performance Tracking – track the search performance on your dashboard
• New Shortcode: Two column shortcode – A search and a result box next to each other
• Compact Layout Mode – on fixed, absolute and static page positions
  
• Full RTL support
• More options with Keyword suggestions and Autocomplete (post titles, tags)
• Result templating is now possible – each result type has it’s own template file
• It is now possible to rename/duplicate search instances
• Better control over Javascript and CSS compatibility and size
• Excluding categories and terms from category results is now possible
• Vertical results now support automatic height and the result image is surrounded with the description
• Search can be triggered on a Facet change (checkbox, slider, radio button…)
• Individual result groups (terms, posts, buddypress results, etc..) can be ordered now.
• Results now can be redirected to a new browser tab
• Query Compatibility Options – You can fine tune the search query to force application level Unicode and UTF8 searches

New features in version 3.5 (2014.11.27)

• Creating various fields (radio buttons, range sliders, dropdowns) connected with custom fields (post meta) is now possible for the frontend settings…
• ...and now it is possible to change the frontend settings layout from hover position to block position…
• ...or place it to a custom place with a shortcode
• Priorities settings had been added to the backend for controlling result priorities
• The search is now compatible with the Advanced Ajax Page Loader plugin

New features from version 3.2! (2014.10.07)

• It is possible to change the search logic now: OR, OR with exact words, AND, AND with exact words
• Categories and taxonomies can be returned as results
• In Old internet explorer versions the search falls back to the default wordpress search box

New features from version 3.1! (2014.09.19)

• The plugin can now override (replace) the default WordPress search results on the results page!
• BuddyPress support: Search in groups, users and activities
• The ‘More results..’ and the default results URL is now customizable

New features from version 3.0! (2014.08.04)

• New latout type: Isotopic
• 2 New theme groups: Underline and Simple
• New retina ready SVG icons
• Smaller CSS files
• Better javascript compatibility
• WPML support
• Google Analytics Integration module
• Brand new backend
• Scroll-to-results option
• Keyboard navigation for vertical results
• Multiple instances of search boxes are now possible
• Better preview
• Shortcode buttons on the Post editor
• Better image options and image handling

Features

• 300+ possible options on admin panel
• 60+ pre-defined fully customisable themes
• Vertical / Horizontal / Polaroid and Isotopic styled results list
• Multiple search plugins on one page – You can configure all of them separately!
• Google Keyword Suggestions on no results, witch a language selector
• Responsive width
• Search caching & image precaching for better performace
• Search in public custom fields is now possible!
• 2 New widgets: Latest searched keywords and Top searched keywords! – You can setup a sidebar widget of the latest/top used keywords and even trigger a search by clicking on them!
• Results filtering by: categories, terms, tags, custom fields, date
• Search relevance options with adjustable weight values
• Retina ready SVG icons
• WPML support
• Polylang support
• qTranslate(x) support
• Dynamic string translations via Polylang or WPML string translations
• Google Analytics Integration module
• Scroll-to-results option
• Keyboard navigation for vertical results
• Multiple instances of search boxes are now possible
• Better preview
• Shortcode buttons on the Post editor
• Better image options and image handling
• Hooks – Filters & Actions for developers
• For the full list see the changelog down below!
• Search statistics page
• Default search text
• Intelligent image parsing (possible from post featured image, post content, post excerpt, possible to set priorities as well)
• Custom Post Types support – You can select which post types do you want to search! Tested with BBPress!
• Font, color, border, box shadow options
• Keyword Highlighting in search results
• Works in templates and in post and pages as well
• Search widget also included
• Preview window on the admin page
• Mobile support
• Frontend Search options popup
• Possible to search in Posts, Pages and Products (WooCommerce, Jigoshop, WP-ecommerce etc..)
• Image caching for bandwidth saving
• Very easy installation and set up
• Powerful api for controlling the search from other frontend applications
• jQuery powered, for the best possible compatibility
• Show more results link below the search box
• WordPress 3.5+ compatibility!
• Multisite support!
• Search autocomplete with search statistics or google keywords!
• Error checking module
• Shortcodes can be executed in search results
• Search result content HTML tag stripping is possible
• Category selectors on the frontend – It’s possible to filter the posts by categories
• You can select custom fields as post title and description
• Post grouping by category or post type!
• Search in comments
• It’s possible to exclude categories or posts from the search!
• Stable, custom built jQuery for maximum compatibility
• Shortcodes strippable/executable in results
• Supports pages with categories/taxonomies
• Index table search capabilities:
  • Indexing titles, content, exceprt, authors, custom fields, categoires, tags etc…
  • Indexing shortcodes content
• Compatible Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin’s:
  • Text field
  • Textarea field
  • Number field
  • Email field
  • WYSIWYG editor field

Index table and Regular search engine

As of version 4.5 the plugin provides index-table search capabilities including:

• High performance keywords index table – lightning fast with 100 000+ posts
• Indexing titles, content, excerpt, custom fields, author, categories, tags, taxonomy terms etc..
• Indexing shortcode content
• Lots of configuration options, to customize indexing for to your needs
• Automatic and WP_Cron based indexing included.

Are you a developer?

You don’t need to worry about touching the code and loosing all the changes with upgrades. The search is packed with hooks for the most convenient access. (the lists are located at the action.txt and filters.txt files as well as in the documentation) No frustration = faster coding.

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Version History

v4.9.8 - 2016.09.25
Added:
- Image source size for featured images is now selectable
- A secondary logic for filling results if it doesnt reach the limit
- Sorting by Custom Field value
- An option for attachment search to link to the direct file
- More mobile related options
Changed:
- Post metabox description fix, new option to add additional search keywords
- Index table min word length reduced to 2
- Image size options moved to Theme Options panel
- Mobile detection class update
Fixed:
- Horizontal scroll fix where the default handler did not activate (touch-action CSS)
- IOS pagination issue fix for Isotopic results
- IOS swipe issue fix for IOS
- Mixed result order fix
- Polylang URL fixes
- POST method for regular search override fix
- A resizing bugfix for vertical results when loading up more results
- More results bug after auto populate
- Theme fixes

v4.9.7 - 2016.09.05
Added:
- New category and term exclusion and inclusion options added
Changed:
- Category and tag exclusions work for attachments as well
- Dash like ignore removed from index table generator, smarter solution instead
Fixed:
- Corrected AUpdater message
- Title percision query correction for Index Table operations
- Scrollbar fixes: fully namespaced and moved to a different scope for max compatibility
- Attachment image source fix
- Isotopic and Polaroid mobile swipe results fix

v4.9.6 - 2016.08.26
Added:
- Scrollbar is now possible to disable
- Additional post title query for better index table results
Fixed:
- Getting post types in some cases were buggy
- Backend js fixes due to false positives on firewalls
- Missing prefixes from scrollbar styles
- Index table action error fix
- get_option() instances replaced with wd_asp()->o[] wrapper
- Post status parse fix on index table creation
- BuddyPress search in activities module check
- Horizontal scrollbar styling fix
- Shortcode generator fixes
- mCustomScrollbar moved to mCustScr namespace

v4.9.5 - 2016.08.18
Added:
- Importing/Exporting themes is now possible
- Searching/Indexing permalinks is now possible
- New themes: Round
- Polylang compatibility for custom post type content
Fixed:
- Textarea inputs now support special characters, including HTML
- Polylang string translations
- Frontend options margin fixes
- Shortcode builder elements layout fixes
- Font name fixes, related to importing search instances
Changed:
- Social box on search instance options panel

v4.9.4 - 2016.08.04
Added:
- WooCommerce search form override
- Search all custom fields option
- Redundant (window.load) initialization added for maximum compatibility
Fixed:
- Back-end text inputs now handle special characters
- Index table "New index" button fix on repetitive press
- Minor code logic fixes
- Frontend CSS rule fixes
- Image minification function fix to return originals on failure
- Search form override priority fixes
Changed:
- New option to input search statuses, old options removed
- Dynamic init method data is now stored as div attribute instead of content (crawler bot friendly)
- Vertical and Horizontal results images are redirecting to results, even if not the whole area is clickable
- Scrollbar script checks for existence before init

Version 4.9.3 - 2016.07.01
Added:
- Shortcode Generator
- JS API + events API
- Settings items layout option (flex, column, masonry)
- New shortcode wd_asp supporting ratios
- Two new mobile related options
Fixed:
- Some filter and action fixes
- Keyword exception bugfix
Changed:
- Options checkboxes are changed to font elements

Version 4.9.2 - 2016.07.01
Added:
- Google Places API integration
Fixed:
- Export-import script URL fix
- Removed old IE8-9 CSS
- Theme chooser fix
- Taxonomy Exclusion bugfix
- Double backslash fixes on back-end scripts
- Search cache issue fix
- Missing product variation from non-ajax results
- Phrase escaping fix for non-ajax search
- Search in post IDs fixed for empty phrases
- "More results" ajax calculation fix
- Term hierarchy generator fix
- Custom CSS printing bugfix
- Statistics page fixed
Changed:
- NouiSlider update to latest version

Version 4.9.1 - 2016.06.18
Fixed:
- Index table update notification fix
- New taxonomy selector: checkbox fix, get_terms() deprecated fix
- Numerous fixes for selector classes
- Fixed an upload PATH variable
- Blog search: checks if is_multisite() first
- WPML string translation fix for category header boxes
- Category exclusions fix

Version 4.9.0 ? 2016.06.13
Added:
- New category and taxonomy term filter options
- New grouping options
- Search box alignment option
- ASP_Query wrapper class to use as search API
- User related exclusions
- Date custom field filter now supports timestapm and MySQL datetime formats
- Post type filters re-worked: supporing drop-down and radio layout mode

Fixed:
- Inline CSS parsing fix
- Better script loading on back-end
- A session related bug
- Removed all ctype library requirements
- An unknown issue with page exclusions
- Box position and width fix for low width cases
- An auto scrolling issue

Changed:
- Menu structure and permalinks changed to readable formats
- Custom field slider and range slider decimal options
- An old image cache library is removed

Version 4.8.3 ? 2016.03.25
Added:
- Search in post IDs is possible
- Autocomplete for mobile is adjustable
Fixed:
- An issue with mobile detection and handling
- Taxonomy selectors now allow private taxonomies
- CSS permission related issue fixes
- Search options memorization across paginated results
- Header already sent error fix

Version 4.8.2 - 2016.03.17
Added:
- Automatic plugin updates!
- New mobile related options
- A meta box to adjust suggested phrases per post basis
- Memorizing selected front-end options when doing a non-ajax search
- Switchable srcript initialization method
- Mobile swipe support for Isotopic and Polaroid layout for paging

Fixed:
- Index table issues: better word boundary detection, custom field indexing problems, ordering problems, WooCommerce product variation indexing
- Custom field filtering issues when using the AND logic between fields
- Auto populate bugfixes
- Better special character handling and search
- Image detection fixes regarding custom fields

Changed:
- Removed deprecated functions
- Removed unused options
- Fixed file writing detection 

Version 4.8.0 - 2016.02.22
Added:
- Empty search bar is supported (setting 0 character triggering)
- It is possible to set column count and width for front-end settings boxes
- Post date and custom field (ACF) date filtering is now possible
- Excluding or including posts by date was added
- The loader can be chosen to be displayed in the results box
- Auto-poulating search results on page loading is now possible
- Hiding the search bar and displaying settings only is now possible
- An ajax page change detection script was implemented

Fixed:
- Term filtering related issue, when all terms selected, did not display CPM from other categories, even though they are not excluded
- Empty link issues on "more results" link
- Font importing issues fixed
- An empty border fix for isotopic results
- A category grouping bug fix
- Download Monitor plugin compatibility fix
- A scrollbar issue fix on front-end selectors
- Fixed a bug with user roles exclusions

Changed:
- Complete re-work of the core files, into a much better and safer structure.
- A better method for processing hidden custom fields
- Keyword suggestions now check substrings on no matches
- It is now possible to create multiple custom field filters for the same custom field

Version 4.7.0 - 2016.01.15
- Filtering by post tags is possible
- It is possible to replace the default theme search now
- Override now returns any type of result
- BuddyPress XProfile fields search
- Keyword exceptions menu on Advanced Options
- Isotope layout gutter between items is adjustable now
- Backend Options search added
- Image Display mode is now changeable
- Custom field filters with empty values are discarded now correctly
Changed:
- UI fix when facet change is activated, the settings won't close
- Horizontal results are much more appealing
- Custom field filters use much less data for communication
- Default options moved to globals
- Back-end default loading performance enhancement
Fixed:
- Isotopic calculation fix for no-image items
- "Try this" CSS fixed
- Issue with category filter default values
- Removed arbitrary calculations with horizontal results
- Keyword highlighting fixed
- More results link fix
- A Visual Composer ajax bugfix
- Fixed missing values when importing search settings
- Context display performance fix

Version 4.6.0 - 2015.11.27
Added:
- Primary, Secondary sorting option added
- Conditional CSS loader script added (experimental)
- More animation options on Advanced Options panel
- An adjustable background overlay for Compact mode (fixed layout)

Fixed:
- Missing translation ID fixes for both engines
- Placeholder text position fix
- Input margin, padding fixes
- Incorrect top calculation added for relative positioned body elements
- Override default WP results group fix, and post_types array fix

Changed:
- Theme parser, moved to JSON data
- SVG spinners removed due to deprication, NEW CSS3 spinners
- Animations re-worked to full CSS3 with fallback
- Animations CSS file is only used for dynamic CSS parser, reducing size over 90 per cent

Version 4.5.5 - 2015.11.05
Added:
- Index table continue button and small stats snippet
- Index table specific relevance options
- Customizable date format
- Added a filter to shortcodes taxonomy get_terms() call
- New image source: post format images

Fixed:
- Index table author related bug fix
- Fixed placeholder alignment

Changed:
- Removed polaroid script classie and modernizr dependency
- Escaping method changes
- Index table search apostrophe removal
- Index table adjusted first word relevance

Version 4.5.4 - 2015.10.27
Added:
- Theme Loader added
- Text type custom field added to custom field selectors
- Isotopic navigation: supports large number of pages, slides back-forth
- Index table engine CRON possibility
- Result template files can be stored in the theme folder

Fixed:
- Index table: timeout fix, WPML fix, reversed term fix
- Preview mode fix
- A typo fixed in results_layout.php: user_login
- Global multibyte (mbstring) function fixes
- Results override function fix
- OR checkbox logic fix
- Keyword suggestion fixes: multisite support, wrong autocomplete in some cases
- Horizontal result fix: no results text incorrectly appearing

Changed:
- Vertical results: Date and author are hidden by default now
- Vertical results: Navigation fix, return button redirects to result
- Index table improvements: does not store indexed documents in an array

Version 4.5.3 - 2015.09.28
Added:
- New initialization wrapper, type.wrapper.js instead of inline scripts
- Display content as context around the search phrase

Fixed:
- imageradio.class.php fixed a selection error where the plugins url is different
- Fixed a WPML bug, where the post editor shows an error
- More results link now doesn't show if there are no results at all

Changed:
- The ajaxsearchpro localized variable changed to ASP
- The scripts are now loaded to the footer
- Custom field selector initializator moved to the main script file
- Better content parsing for the image parser

Version 4.5.2 - 2015.09.21
Added:
- Index table added an option to replace dash-like chars
- Attachment term, caption search
- Buddypress user search option removed
- Redirect click and enter to first matching result

Fixed:
- Reverse search phrase property
- Keyword double-escape fix
- Index table floating issue, limit adjustment fic
- Redirect click and enter bug fixed, where the ajax method won't stop
- Isotopic bugfix, where the content wont slide down

Version 4.5 - 2015.08.11
Added:
- A new feature and engine: Index table search engine
- User search is now possible
- Attachment search is now possible
- Search text button
- Back-end category parent,child chooser
- Input focuses on compact mode opening
- Keyword suggestions and autocomplete sources: taxonomy terms and CPM
- WooCommerce term image integration
- Hidden input field type for custom field selectors
- Exclusion of parent-child pages is now possible
- Added a Help and Updates menu for more information
- Dynamic strings are now translatable with WPML string translations
- Update Notifications on the plugins menu

Changed:
- Major query optimizations for better performance
- Adjustable author field for CPT results
- Input box converted to flex display
- Google autocomplete ajax migrated to JS
- Custom field and Category selector output limit increased
- WPML respects term translations
- CSS files re-ordered
- Some CSS classes changed with prefixes
- Optimized some theme line heights
- JS resize and scroll event optimizations
- Better attempt on closing unclosed HTML tags in content
- Result images are displayed as background images for better compatibility
- Select item colorization and width changes
- On multisite it is now possible to select all blogs with a checkbox

Fixed:
- Compact mode scrolling fixes
- WooCommerce product variation URL fix
- File system api instead of furl_open
- Stylesheet fixes
- Back-end JS optimizations
- Better input escaping
- Margin, padding override fixes
- Vertical results box height calculation fix
- WMPL compatibility with custom ajax handler
- Keyboard navigation fix for vertical results
- Fix a script exclusion for IE<9
- Multiselect custom post type selector fix
- A rev-slider compatibility bugfix
- Non-ajax pagination fix
- Widget compatibility for WP4.3

Removed:
- Fulltext search is replaced with Index Table engine

2015.03.18 - 4.0 - Major update
Added:
 - Visual composer addon included
 - New menu: Export/Import settings - you can export all your search instances, or individual instance settings
 - New menu: Performance Tracking - track the search performance on your dashboard
 - New Shortcode: Two column shortcode - A search and a result box next to each other
 - Compact Layout Mode - on fixed, absolute and static page positions
 - Full RTL support
 - Result templating is now possible - each result type has it's own template file
 - More options with Keyword suggestions and Autocomplete (post titles, tags)
 - It is now possible to rename/duplicate search instances
 - Better control over Javascript and CSS compatibility and size
 - Excluding categories and terms from category results is now possible
 - Search can be triggered on a Facet change (checkbox, slider, radio button...)
 - Individual result groups (terms, posts, buddypress results, etc..) can be ordered now.
 - Query Compatibility Options - You can fine tune the search query to force application level Unicode and UTF8 searches
 - Results now can be redirected to a new browser tab
Changed:
 - Vertical results now support automatic height and the result image is surrounded with the description
 - Relevance is now less performance dependent
 - The ajax request now returns plain HTML instead of JSON (because of templating)
Fixed
 - A possible security issue on the backend
 - Massive CSS compatibility fixes
 - ABSPATH variable removed

2014.11.27 - 3.5 - Major update
Added:
 - Priority settings -> prioritizing results is now possible
 - Custom Frontend Fields -> Creation of Radio buttons, Dropboxes, Checkboxes, Range sliders connected with custom fields
 - Advanced Ajax Page Loader plugin compatibility options
 - Suggested keywords -> "Try these:" as seen on the demo
Changed
 - CSS files for search instances had been removed and replaced with a concatenated single CSS file
 - TimThumb removed and BFI image class had been added as main image handler
Fixed
 - CSS incompatibilities
 - Known JS bugs
 - Isotopic layout is now more stable

2014.10.07 - 3.2 - Major update
Added:
 - It is possible to change the search logic now: OR, OR with exact words, AND, AND with exact words
 - Categories and taxonomies can be returned as results
Changed
 - In Old internet explorer versions the search falls back to the default wordpress search box
 - Fixed a bug with the cache
 - Fixed a bug with the widget

2014.09.19 - 3.1 - Minor update
Added:
 - The plugin can now override (replace) the default WordPress search results on the results page!
 - BuddyPress support: Search in groups, users and activities
 - The 'More results..' and the default results URL is now customizable
Changed
 - Polaroid results fix for new chrome browsers
 - Custom ajax handler is now disabled by default due to some incompatibilities
 - The title search relevance has changed a bit
 - Fulltext search is disabled by default
 - Buddypress bugs fixed

2014.08.04 - 3.0 - Major update
Added:
 - New latout type: Isotopic
 - 2 New theme groups: Underline and Simple
 - New retina ready SVG icons
 - WPML support
 - Google Analytics Integration module
 - Brand new backend
 - Scroll-to-results option
 - Keyboard navigation for vertical results
 - Multiple instances of search boxes are now possible
 - Better preview
 - Better compatibility module
Changed:
 - Shortcode buttons on the Post editor
 - Better image options and image handling
 - Smaller CSS files
 - Better javascript compatibility

2014.03.12 - 2.4 - Major update
Added:
 - Fulltext search capabilities
 - Fulltext indexing the posts table (post_title, post_content, post_excerpt)
Changed:
 - A few bugs in the suggestions code

2014.03.06 - 2.3 - Minor changes
Added:
 - Polaroid styled results (experimental)
 - Shortcodes now strippable from results
 - Now supports pages with categories
Changed:
 - Some Buddypress/Nextgen compatibility issues solved

2014.02.18 - 2.10 - Minor/Performance changes
 - Much better relevance sorting!
 - Overall performance rework ? much faster ajax results
 - TimThumb available for faster image loading
 - Compatibility settings added ? Inline styles and Non-minified javascript
 - Cache options reworked + Better image precache

2014.01.10 - 2.00 - Major update
!!!Important - Older version users, please
   delete your search instances and the plugin before installing!!!
Added:
 - Search relevance with adjustable weights
 - Results filtering by custom taxonomies
 - Horizontal results
 - Result list placement to custom element via shortcode
 - Hooks - Filters & Actions added, full list in documentation
Changed:
 - Frontend layout - Many changes here
    * The frontend options bar can be set to left/right
    * Vertical/Horizontal result list
    * Better mobile device compatibility (tap/search button on keyboard)
    * Color change on result hovering
    * Better scrollbar
    * Search box height changeable
    * Search box margin changeable            
 - Backend rework - better
 - Themes reworked
 - +~40 new options on the backend
 - Backgroung gradient tool
 - Faster cache, better image cache
 - Nicer icons, better theme configurations
 - Better compatibility
 - ~50% less javascript
 - ~3x load performance

2013.05.21 - 1.81 - Minor Update
 - exact matches fix
 - some fixes on admin area
 - widget code fix

2013.05.08 - 1.80 - Major Update
 - 11 new themes
 - Admin page fix
 - Caching, precaching
 - Better images
 - iPhone fix

2013.04.16 - 1.70 - Major Update
 - Error check module
 - Css fixes
 - Shortcode running in search result content
 - Strip tags
 - Better search on BBPress forums

2013.04.16 - 1.65 - Minor Update
 - menu structure fix
 - blog titles search added

2013.02.13 - 1.60 - Major Update
- 9 new minimal themes
- minify fix, works with mobile
- mobile typing fix
- Search: custom fields as title and desc, multisite grouping fix

2013.02.07 - 1.50 - Major Update
 * Category selectors on the frontend
 * Category/Post type filtering
 * Search in comments
 * Exclude posts by id's or categories 
 * Stable, custom built jQuery for maximum compatibility
 * Better search algorithm    

2012.12.13 - 1.40 - Major Update
 * Multisite support
 * Better admin interface, ajax powered
 * Autocomplete with statistics or google keywords
 * Touch device fixes
 * Possible enable/disable the triggering events

2012.12.13 - 1.30 - Major Update
 * WordPress 3.5 support
 * Show more results link added

2012.11.22 - 1.25 - Minor Update
 * jQuery outerheight fix
 * qTranslate support

2012.11.21 - 1.2 - Major Update
 * Search Statistics
 * Search in custom fields
 * 2 new widgets - Last searches and Top searches
 * Default Search Text option added
 * Compatibility issues fix (with older versions of jQuery ui)
 * Faster image parsing
 * Better keywords parsing

2012.11.14 - 1.1 - Major Update
 * Buddypress Support added (search in groups, forums, users)
 * Search term highlighting on the frontend
 * Custom post types supported
 * New custom post type selector on the backend
 * Translation support for frontend selectors
 * Language selector for google keyword suggestions
 * The whole item area is now clickable

2012.11.07 - 1.01 - Error reporting issue fixed.