Ajax Search Pro for WordPress 4.15 to 4.16.2 developer notes

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These releases feature importing options from the Lite version, front-end filters API and templating and other fixes and optimizations. By the way, do you have a copy of this plugin yet? You can get one HERE, feel free to check the demo as well. New Features Importing Options from Ajax Search Lite A long awaited feature, finally here. Now, if …

10 000

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I personally never thought we will ever reach this milestone – but today we passed 10 000 sales on Codecanyon. We would like to thank for all of our customers, you are truly amazing for choosing us. Big thanks for Envato Market as well, without them, this would have never been possible. We are continue to work hard on our …

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress 4.13 – Developer notes

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This release brings tons of new features, as well as a few optimizations and bugfixes. Check out the plugin demo, it might be something you are looking for. New Features Indexing and searching Attachment file contents The long-awaited feature is finally here. Indexing PDF, any kind of text, RTF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files is now possible. This is a …

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress 4.12 Developer notes

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New features Priority groups This is a long awaited feature, which allows prioritizing results based on category (taxonomy term) and custom field rules. This feature can be found under the existing Priorities menu. It allows creating rule groups, where rules can be defined – based on post meta or by taxonomy terms. When is this feature useful? When certain posts …

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress 4.11.10 Developer Notes

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New Features Content Type Filter This a long awaited feature, that allows filtering results by content type. Since the plugin supports searching custom post types, taxonomy terms, users, attachments and buddypress content at the same time, this filter can help users to further narrow the results by these content types. The new options are available under the Fronten Search Settings …

From XAMPP to Vagrant WordPress

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I’m sure most if not every developer is using some kind of local server tool for development. The greatest advantage of using local development server is that you don’t depend on a hosting provider, and it works without internet as well (in most cases). I’ve been using XAMPP for a very long time, as it was very comfortable to use, …

Bulletproof queries in WordPress – preventing SQL injections

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When developing WordPress plugins, securing potential SQL injections is extremely important. With a well written SQL injection the attacker might gain access to your database, your blog back-end and steal your data, or make modifications you won’t even notice. What is an SQL injection? SQL injection is a technique where malicious users can inject SQL commands into an SQL statement, …

Ajax Search Pro for WordPress 4.5 features

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Another huge update is released for Ajax Search Pro, this time aiming at performance and relevancy, and of course lots of requests fulfilled 🙂 Unfamiliar with the plugin? Check out the product page on codecanyon. New Features Index table & index table search engine (link to the documentation) User search Attachment search Search text button Better keyword suggestions Help & Support …