v3.2.2

Released on 22 August 2023

Enhancements:

• Use get_match_sql instead of score in the order by clause
• Support meta_query argument
• New filter: better_search_query_date_query

Bug fixes:

• Checkbox in admin page always showed as modified

Full Changelog: v3.2.1...v3.2.2

v3.2.2-beta1

Changelog

• Enhancements:

  • Use get_match_sql instead of score in the order by clause
  • Support meta_query argument
  • New filter: better_search_query_date_query

• Bug fixes:

  • Checkbox in admin page always showed as modified

Installation

1. Download the better-search.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the better-search.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.2.1...v3.2.2-beta1

Version 3.2.1

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/better-search-v3-2-0/

What's Changed

• make stopwords an array by @ezific in #98
• fix/bsearch_extract_locations by @mjsterling in #96

New Contributors

• @ezific made their first contribution in #98
• @mjsterling made their first contribution in #96

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v3.2.1

Version 3.2.1 Beta 1

Bug fix release.

Installation

1. Download the better-search.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the better-search.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

What's Changed

• make stopwords an array by @ezific in #98
• fix/bsearch_extract_locations by @mjsterling in #96

New Contributors

• @ezific made their first contribution in #98
• @mjsterling made their first contribution in #96

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v3.2.1-beta1

Version 3.2.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/better-search-v3-2-0/

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Only highlight whole words
  • Censor character has been modified to be a blank phrase instead of a space. Additionally multiple spaces will be replaced by a single space.
  • Description of the taxonomy is also searched

• Bug fixes:

  • mySQL error was generated if there were + signs with banned words in BOOLEAN mode
  • Fixed bsearch_form shortcode incorrect parameters
  • Queries with apostrophe gave errors
  • PHP 8.1 compatibility
  • Security fix when clearing cache

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.2.0

Version 3.2.0 Beta 4

Changelog

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Only highlight whole words
  • Censor character has been modified to be a blank phrase instead of a space. Additionally multiple spaces will be replaced by a single space.
  • Description of the taxonomy is also searched

• Bug fixes:

  • mySQL error was generated if there were + signs with banned words in BOOLEAN mode
  • Fixed bsearch_form shortcode incorrect parameters
  • Queries with apostrophe gave errors
  • PHP 8.1 compatibility
  • Security fix when clearing cache

Installation

1. Download the better-search.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the better-search.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.2.0-beta3...v3.2.0-beta4

Version 3.2.0 Beta 3

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Only highlight whole words
  • Censor character has been modified to be a blank phrase instead of a space. Additionally multiple spaces will be replaced by a single space.
  • Description of the taxonomy is also searched

• Bug fixes:

  • mySQL error was generated if there were + signs with banned words in BOOLEAN mode
  • Fixed bsearch_form shortcode incorrect parameters
  • Queries with apostrophe gave errors
  • PHP 8.1 compatibility

Installation

1. Download the better-search.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the better-search.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.2.0-beta1...v3.2.0-beta3

Version 3.2.0 Beta 1

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • Only highlight whole words
  • Censor character has been modified to be a blank phrase instead of a space. Additionally multiple spaces will be replaced by a single space.

• Bug fixes:

  • mySQL error was generated if there were + signs with banned words in BOOLEAN mode

Installation

1. Download the better-search.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the better-search.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.2.0-beta1

Version 3.1.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/better-search-v3-1-0/

• Features:

  • New filter bsearch_template_query_args in the default template to modify arguments array passed to Better_Search_Query
  • New option Highlight followed links: if enabled, the plugin will highlight the search terms on posts/pages when visits them from the search results page
  • the_bsearch_excerpt() will now show the relevant part of the excerpt where applicable by default. You can override the arguments by filtering the_bsearch_excerpt_args

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • New argument show_post_types for get_bsearch_form() set as default to false. Arguments can be modified by overriding the filter bsearch_form_args
  • Highlighting now uses the referer and no longer requires a special query variable

• Bug fixes:

  • Post thumbnail size was ignored by the_bsearch_post_thumbnail
  • HTML entities were displayed instead of being processed
  • Show credit displayed twice
  • post_type arguments were incorrectly processed when empty
  • PHP error in Better_Search::set_topscore()
  • Resetting settings caused an infinite loop

Full Changelog: v3.0.3...v3.1.0

Version 3.1.0 Beta 4

• Features:

  • New filter bsearch_template_query_args in the default template to modify arguments array passed to Better_Search_Query
  • New option Highlight followed links: if enabled, the plugin will highlight the search terms on posts/pages when visits them from the search results page
  • the_bsearch_excerpt() will now show the relevant part of the excerpt where applicable by default. You can override the arguments by filtering the_bsearch_excerpt_args

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • New argument show_post_types for get_bsearch_form() set as default to false. Arguments can be modified by overriding the filter bsearch_form_args
  • Highlighting now uses the referer and no longer requires a special query variable

• Bug fixes:

  • Post thumbnail size was ignored by the_bsearch_post_thumbnail
  • HTML entities were displayed instead of being processed
  • Show credit displayed twice
  • post_type arguments were incorrectly processed when empty

Full Changelog: v3.1.0-beta3...v3.1.0-beta4