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Better site search is here. ElasticPress.io and Savvii are proud to unveil advanced site search for Savvii’s Managed WordPress Hosting customers. The integration will bring ElasticPress.io to Savvii’s platform, offering WordPress users the ability to…

We’re days away from another month long holiday season when crazy online deals are likely going to break the Internet again, so the team at ElasticPress.io wants to remind you of a few things you…

We’ve been offering ElasticPress.io for almost two years, and along the way we’ve learned quite a bit about connecting Elasticsearch and WordPress, what works and what doesn’t, and how our customers use the plugin and…

We’re excited to announce the newest release of ElasticPress, version 2.6! This update includes some oft-requested and helpful features, especially for site owners looking to improve the WooCommerce shopping experience for their customers: WooCommerce products…

Please note: as of version 4.7 of ElasticPress, Facets are now known as Filters. ElasticPress 2.5 has been released, with a new Facets feature that makes it easy to add high performance content filtering controls…

ElasticPress 2.4 has been released, bringing a new Autosuggest feature. When the autosuggest feature is enabled, input fields of type “search” or with the CSS class “search-field” or “ep-autosuggest” will be enhanced with suggested matches….

Publishers and eCommerce store owners often need to display the count of items (products, posts, etc.) within a category. Using WordPress core functionality, one would have to execute a number of slow MySQL queries to calculate those totals. Using Elasticsearch, we can find this information performantly using the Aggregations API.

Whether you’re interested in experimenting with Elasticsearch and WordPress, or you need to develop and test a site that will use ElasticPress in production, this guide will walk you through setting up 10up’s WP Local…

ElasticPress version 2.3 has been released, bringing with it a new Documents feature. This feature indexes text within popular file types (e.g. pdf, doc, ppt) and adds those files to search results, rectifying a gap in…

ElasticPress is a sophisticated plugin that tightly integrates with WordPress core, themes, and plugins. As a result, debugging ElasticPress can be tricky business for even experienced developers. Having been exposed to many debugging questions in…