[ANN] ElasticSearch WordPress Plugin

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Hi All,

We have completed development of ElasticSearch WordPress plugin.
Thanks to cabuza https://github.com/cubuzoa for his efforst to make this
real, great job!

Check it here https://github.com/searchbox-io/wp-elasticsearch.

It lacks documentation and user guide. No worries they are on the way.

Install plugin, enter your ES endpoint and you are done. (Just do it from
www.searchbox.io :), up in seconds!)
Also be sure to add Facet Widget from widgets menu.

All feedback and comments are always very welcomed.

Regards,
Ferhat

www.searchbox.io

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Added some documentation and screen shots.

http://searchbox-io.github.com/wp-elasticsearch/

Regards,
Ferhat.

On Monday, November 19, 2012 10:21:24 PM UTC+2, ferhatsb wrote:

Hi All,

We have completed development of Elasticsearch WordPress plugin.
Thanks to cabuza https://github.com/cubuzoa for his efforst to make
this real, great job!

Check it here https://github.com/searchbox-io/wp-elasticsearch.

It lacks documentation and user guide. No worries they are on the way.

Install plugin, enter your ES endpoint and you are done. (Just do it from
www.searchbox.io :), up in seconds!)
Also be sure to add Facet Widget from widgets menu.

All feedback and comments are always very welcomed.

Regards,
Ferhat

www.searchbox.io

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Hi Ferhat,

thanks for this. Our admin got it very easily installed, without any
elasticsearch experience, great :slight_smile: !

Some bugs (?)

  • When elasticsearch is down it should print a proper message (at the
    moment the page stays completely empty!)
  • it is always saying "We found – 0 articles for " even if it
    returned some documents
  • using a different cluster name would be nice (ala
    elasticsearch-wordpress) as the default conflicted with the preinstalled
    elasticsearch :wink:

Some questions/feature requests:

  • Can I index pages too?
  • Customization of the shard/replica number would be great (5 are too much
    for <20 posts ;))
  • How can I avoid that the full posts are returned? I would prefer
    snippets with highlighting instead :slight_smile:

Regards,
Peter.

On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 3:26:27 PM UTC+1, ferhatsb wrote:

Added some documentation and screen shots.

http://searchbox-io.github.com/wp-elasticsearch/

Regards,
Ferhat.

On Monday, November 19, 2012 10:21:24 PM UTC+2, ferhatsb wrote:

Hi All,

We have completed development of Elasticsearch WordPress plugin.
Thanks to cabuza https://github.com/cubuzoa for his efforst to make
this real, great job!

Check it here https://github.com/searchbox-io/wp-elasticsearch.

It lacks documentation and user guide. No worries they are on the way.

Install plugin, enter your ES endpoint and you are done. (Just do it from
www.searchbox.io :), up in seconds!)
Also be sure to add Facet Widget from widgets menu.

All feedback and comments are always very welcomed.

Regards,
Ferhat

www.searchbox.io

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one more thing:

we have an 'Open Source' category ... which is then showing up as two facet
options 'Open' and 'Source' ... just fix via "index" : "not_analyzed"

also there is an unclickable/unusable arrow in the facet widget ala "-->"
... ?

Peter.

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for issues! We will fix them ASAP.

Please see my answers below;

"
Some questions/feature requests:

  • Can I index pages too? Not yet, we just want to keep it simple for first
    version, we can add it for next release.
  • Customization of the shard/replica number would be great (5 are too much
    for <20 posts ;)), Index settings configuration can be added to related
    tab, you can just prepare an index to use until it is available.
  • How can I avoid that the full posts are returned? I would prefer
    snippets with highlighting instead :). That is a tricky one. Plugin
    searches at ES, gets ids of posts then intercepts sql like query, changes
    it as select query with returned ids. So your search page is not affected,
    all works as is. I will check about how can we manipulate search results
    and add highlighting with this design.
    "

On Monday, November 26, 2012 10:48:55 PM UTC+2, Karussell wrote:

one more thing:

we have an 'Open Source' category ... which is then showing up as two
facet options 'Open' and 'Source' ... just fix via "index" : "not_analyzed"

also there is an unclickable/unusable arrow in the facet widget ala "-->"
... ?

Peter.

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Thanks!

  • How can I avoid that the full posts are returned? I would prefer

snippets with highlighting instead :). That is a tricky one. Plugin
searches at ES, gets ids of posts then intercepts sql like query, changes
it as select query with returned ids. So your search page is not affected,
all works as is. I will check about how can we manipulate search results
and add highlighting with this design.

I feared that. Years ago we had the same problem with an oxid installation
(+ Solr at that time ;)) ... it was a nightmare to make it working as we
needed to 'extend' somehow the results page and completely rewrite it.

Peter.

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We have another POC which you have to create your own search page with all
results from ES. Maybe we can let users to choose. That will require some
time to make it smooth though

On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 1:07:24 PM UTC+2, Karussell wrote:

Thanks!

  • How can I avoid that the full posts are returned? I would prefer

snippets with highlighting instead :). That is a tricky one. Plugin
searches at ES, gets ids of posts then intercepts sql like query, changes
it as select query with returned ids. So your search page is not affected,
all works as is. I will check about how can we manipulate search results
and add highlighting with this design.

I feared that. Years ago we had the same problem with an oxid installation
(+ Solr at that time ;)) ... it was a nightmare to make it working as we
needed to 'extend' somehow the results page and completely rewrite it.

Peter.

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