Major search-quality and performance release adding smarter fuzzy matching, configurable result ranking and a new WP-CLI reindex command for faster and more flexible index management in PrismSearch Pro.
Changes
- Add the Pro WP-CLI reindex command with configurable batch size and parallel thread options
- Improve fuzzy search with normalized case-insensitive matching and adaptive typo tolerance
- Add partial and prefix matching for more flexible search results
- Add relevance tiers to improve the ordering of fuzzy search results
- Add configurable result ranking using relevance, popularity, rating and newness
- Add WooCommerce menu order as an optional ranking factor
- Add custom ranking weights for fine-tuning result ordering
- Add optional ranking debug information for easier result analysis and tuning
- Keep multilingual, searchable-meta, WooCommerce/WCML and Direct Pro search paths compatible with the new fuzzy search and ranking logic
Upgrade notice
- PrismSearch Pro 1.0.7 improves search quality, result relevance and index management
- Existing indexes remain compatible when upgrading from PrismSearch Pro 1.0.6
- The new WP-CLI reindex command provides additional control over batch size and parallel processing for large indexes
- Fuzzy search improvements provide better results for typos, partial queries and prefix searches
- Ranking can be configured independently to prioritize the factors most relevant to your content or WooCommerce catalog
- Ranking debug can be enabled when you need to understand why individual results are ordered the way they are