Ajax Search Pro v4.29.1 Plugin
Ajax search pro is a powerful and highly customizable plugin for WordPress that enhances the search experience on your website. This plugin replaces the default WordPress search bar with an incredible live search engine, which provides users with more efficient and accurate search results. Ajax search pro offers many features and options, such as category filters, custom field filters, checkbox, dropdown, and radio button filters, making it easier for users to find what they are looking for.
The plugin is compatible with various builders, including Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder, Visual Composer, Divi Page Builder, Gutenberg, and others. Thus, users can add shortcodes and widgets to their website, customizing them according to their preferences. Additionally, Ajax Search Pro can act as an Elementor Live Posts and Products widget filter, ensuring that users receive the most relevant and up-to-date information.
Ajax Search Pro’s features, including its compatibility with different builders and its ability to create custom result pages via Elementor, make it an excellent tool for improving the search experience on any WordPress website. It is easy to use, highly customizable, and provides users with the best search results possible.
Core Features of Ajax Search Pro Plugin
- Highly customizable search form
- Supports multiple post types and taxonomies
- Supports custom fields (post meta) as filters
- Category filters (checkbox, dropdown, radio button)
- Smart image parsing with custom size and quality options
- Keyword suggestions and autocomplete
- Fuzzy matching and search logic
- Search statistics and analytics
- Customizable search results page
- Compatibility with popular page builders (Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder, Visual Composer, Divi Page Builder, Gutenberg, and others)
- Integration with WooCommerce
- Shortcodes and widgets for ease of use
- AJAX powered for faster performance
What’s New (Changelog) in Ajax Search Pro v4.29.1
This is a major release. It introduces the new Search AI — a suite of AI-powered tools that help you configure, diagnose and improve your search instances — and ships ground-up rebuilds of the Index Table, Analytics, and Priorities systems, a reworked Synonyms engine, several new suggestion sources, and a wide range of admin-panel, performance and stability improvements.
New Features
AI Assistant — a new, license-gated suite of AI-powered tools available from a dedicated admin menu, with its own usage-tracking tab and interaction log:
Configuration Wizard — guides you through setting up a search instance and applies a recommended configuration for you.
Search Quality Report — analyses a search instance and reports issues and actionable recommendations.
Priorities Advisor — reviews your priority rules and flags problems such as orphaned terms/posts, empty rules, misconfigured phrase logic and nameless groups.
Synonym Discovery — suggests synonyms based on your content to improve recall.
Stopword Conflict Detector — detects stopwords that conflict with your indexed content.
Diagnostic Chat — ask questions about your search setup and get guided answers.
AI Keyword Suggestions — an AI-powered autocomplete and keyword-suggestion source; AI-sourced phrases are flagged in the frontend with a sparkle badge.
Index Table — rebuilt with a new management interface and engine:
New Overview panel with live indexing stats, a Stop button and restart support.
Index-size history chart with daily snapshots (recorded via REST, WP-CLI and WP-Cron) and a keyword-count series.
Cursor-based re-indexing for reliable processing of large sites.
New taxonomy-term exclusion rules and custom-field exclusion rules with AND/OR logic.
Re-index notification banner after settings that affect the index are saved.
In-panel WP-CLI tips; the "Post Types & Taxonomies" panel is now "Post Types & Filters".
Analytics — rebuilt fully:
Configure multiple Google Analytics 4 events with a flexible items[] format and 8 event triggers (including "try this").
New {search_id} and {search_name} template variables for event values.
Legacy Google Analytics 3 (window.ga) support has been removed.
Priorities — overhauled:
Individual Priorities have been merged into Priority Groups via a new post rule type.
Per-group enable/disable toggle with panel descriptions.
Multisite per-blog targeting for priority groups.
Index table keyword suggestions — a new autocomplete and keyword-suggestion source backed by the search index. It surfaces the words closest to what the visitor typed, with typo and transposition correction, ranked by popularity (#337)
User Searches block — a new Gutenberg block displaying Popular or Latest visitor searches, replacing the removed Top/Last search widgets (#318)
Synonyms — reworked: expansion is now always bidirectional (the "synonyms as keywords" option has been removed), synonyms are expanded at query-time for taxonomy term searches, and the panel shows a stale-index warning after changes so you know when a re-index is needed (#335)
Admin pages modernized: the Compatibility (now absorbing the former Performance page), Maintenance, and Help & Updates pages were refactored to a React/REST architecture, with a "Reset to defaults" option on Compatibility. The legacy Export/Import submenu has been removed.
All Searches: media panel reordering and bulk-delete support.
License activation gate: admin pages now prompt for activation when the license is inactive, with clearer activation and validation error messages.
Fixes & Changes
Optimized taxonomy filtering in search queries by replacing nested IN/NOT IN sub-queries with EXISTS/NOT EXISTS, preventing oversized queries that were being killed on some managed hosts (#287)
Fixed statistics-based keyword suggestions querying a dead legacy table; they now read from the active statistics table (#326)
Removed a dead code that made unneccessary db writes for legacy script data (#339)
Fixed possible fatal errors during plugin updates caused by a stale autoloader held in PHP memory (#336)
Fixed the Inter font not loading and the admin body font being incorrectly overridden (#334)
Upgraded the back-end color picker (spectrum) from v1.1.1 to v2.0.10, fixing a Safari white-swatch bug and transparent gradient handling.
Prevented theme-bundled jscolor scripts from hijacking the admin color pickers and resetting values after save.
Fixed a dbDelta error on activation by dropping stale duplicate synonym indexes.
The indexing UI now stays alive across admin menu switches, and stops & refreshes correctly when settings are saved.
Removed the performance-tracking feature; improved decoding of legacy encoded values during compatibility and post-type migrations.
Statistics panel improvements: switched charts to an area-chart style and fixed checkbox contrast and sizing in light and dark modes.Admin UI polish: semantic button variants, refreshed stat-card tiles, and removal of unintended coloured accents.
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