AWS guides for WordPress & WooCommerce

Feature highlight : AWS Opensearch

AWS is the world’s leading cloud computing provider so it is no surprise that you would want to use it to host your search engines. Good news! You can now integrate the AWS Opensearch service into any WordPress & Woocommerce website using WPSolr, a search & recommendations plugin. Let Opensearch take control of your search and facets. Why use Opensearch ? Opensearch is an open source fork of a very popular and important search engine called Elasticsearch. It delivers an efficient and relevant search (that can power websites with millions of items or products) but also provides detailed analytics. It can be used for many purposes including but not limited to e-commerce, multimedia streaming, news, back-office, etc… Opensearch was created in 2021

Elasticsearch alternatives for WooCommerce

Introduction WooCommerce is a popular e-commerce platform that runs on WordPress. However, when it comes to search functionality, WooCommerce comes with its own built-in search functionality. But this search functionality is not always enough. Often, store owners face issues with search performance, relevancy, and scalability when the store has a large number of products. Elasticsearch, a search engine based on Lucene, could be the solution for such issues. Elasticsearch can help to optimize search performance, relevancy, and scalability. It provides full-text search, document-oriented storage, and real-time distributed search and analytics. However, Elasticsearch is not the only solution available in the market, so let’s take a look at some Elasticsearch alternatives for WooCommerce. Elasticsearch Alternatives Algolia Algolia is a cloud-based search engine that provides a fast