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Wordpress facets guides for WordPress & WooCommerce

How to (Easily) Configure Elasticsearch on WordPress

One of the best ways of improving user experience on your WordPress websites is to have a speedy and accurate search. While the default search can be quite effective on websites with limited amounts of data, it’s speed can become problematic (slow) as traffic and data increases. This is why, in this case, you should replace your WordPress search with a high performance search engine. But where do you start? Elasticsearch is an easy choice, since it is probably the one with the best price to performance ratio.   What is Elasticsearch ? While the default WordPress search (and many other search plugins such as Relevanssi or Ivory search) use simple SQL queries to find matching posts in the WP database, Elasticsearch is optimized for

Add search & facets to your Woocommerce wesbite using WPSolr

Feature highlight : Woocommerce product search & facets

WooCommerce powers approximately 23% of the world’s e-commerce websites. With this extensive reach, WPSolr, a WordPress search and recommendations plugin, offers integration specifically designed to cater to WooCommerce sites, making it a likely solution to meet your needs.   Check out our Woocommerce integration documentation.   Woocommerce search     WPSolr will allow you to add Ajax (live) search to your Woocommerce website.   From the WPSolr dashboard, you can select which data to display for each Woocommerce product result. :     Woocommerce facets   WPSolr offers plenty of facets to choose from. You can use them filter the Woocommerce shop :     You can then easily add these WPSolr facets to your Woocommerce sidebar using widgets :  

WPSolr Wordpress facets example

Feature highlight : WordPress facets (filters)

Whether you’re running an e-commerce store with Woocommerce, managing a news platform, or curating a blog, you would want to let your users personalize their WordPress browsing experience by adding facets to your website’s search functionality.   WPSolr allows for that.   Add faceted search to any WordPress  or Woocommerce website     WPSolr is a search & recommendations plugin that can also integrate facets powered by world-class search engines.   They are highly customizable and deliver lightning fast results. WPSolr also offer quite a few of them : checkboxes, radioboxes, select box, date picker, slider, color picker, etc…   You can learn how to add them in our official documentation.

What are search facets, how to use them, and what are their limitations?

Search facets, also known as faceted navigation or faceted search, are a powerful feature used in many websites and search engines to help users refine their search results. Facets provide a structured way of categorizing and filtering search results based on different attributes or characteristics of the data. They allow users to narrow down their search by selecting specific values within these attributes, making it easier to find relevant information.     What are facets ?   Search facets are front-end components that allow the users to filter the items they want to see based on their respective metadata or taxonomies.   Each facet represents a specific attribute of the data, such as product categories, price ranges, dates, or any other relevant characteristic. They can