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WordPress search : Ultimate Guide for 2024

WordPress is the most widely used CMS and single handedly powers 40% of the web. If you haven’t tried it already, it is intuitive, powerful and if you use one of many hosting providers out there, you can easily set up a working website in minutes. But once you made all of your content, how do you ensure that your users can find it. For that, you need a good site search. Many types of search exist : keyword search, AI search, even personalized search. WordPress provides one by default, but it is incredibly slow and ineffective. This guide will go over the benefits of a fast and relevant search and how you could implement third party search engines easily into any WordPress or 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

Managing Multilingual WooCommerce Stores with OpenSearch

Introduction Managing multilingual WooCommerce stores can be a challenging task, especially when it comes to handling search functionality across different languages. However, with the advent of OpenSearch, an open-source search engine, it has become easier to provide efficient and accurate search results for multilingual stores. In this post, we will explore how you can manage multilingual WooCommerce stores using OpenSearch and demonstrate a PHP client code snippet for integrating it into your WooCommerce setup. Managing Multilingual WooCommerce Stores with OpenSearch One of the key challenges in managing multilingual WooCommerce stores is to ensure that the search functionality is capable of handling different languages and providing relevant search results. OpenSearch, which is based on the Elasticsearch search engine, offers powerful features that can help overcome