This plugin integrates the Doofinder search service with your WordPress site.
Doofinder provides fast, accurate results based on your website contents. Results appear in your search box at an incredible speed as the user types.
Doofinder can be installed in any website with very little configuration (feed your search engine with data and put a bit of javascript code in your page).
This extension allows you to easily populate the data Doofinder needs to be able to search your database and to insert the Doofinder layer script into your WordPress site.
With Doofinder you are confident that your visitors are finding what they are looking for.
These are some advantages of using Doofinder in your site:
When users start typing in the search box, Doofinder displays the best results for their search. If users make typos, our algorithms will detect them and will perform the search as if the term were correctly typed.
Furthermore, Doofinder sorts the results displaying the most relevant first.
More info: http://www.doofinder.com
Important: To use this plugin you need to have an account at Doofinder. If you don’t have one you can signup here to get your 30 day free trial period.
The minimum technical equirements are basically the same as the WordPress ones. Take a look at their server requirements for more info.
Once activated, you will see a new entry in the main menu called Doofinder with two sub-menus:
NOTICE: Doofinder for WordPress has built-in support for WPML and PolyLang multi-language plugins. In case you use any of them, ensure you’ve switched context to one of the defined languages. In All Languages context you won’t be able to configure anything. You will have to configure as many search engines as languages you have in your site.
Doofinder Settings
Authentication
Index Settings
Search Settings
IMPORTANT: Unless you know what you’re doing, it’s recommended to index contents first and, after the indexing process is finished, enable this option. If you switch the order, your site may return no results until something is indexed.
Index Posts
This section allows you to reindex all your contents. Just press the button and wait until it finishes. You will have to do this for each language if you’re in a ML environment.
IMPORTANT: Unless you know what you’re doing, it’s recommended to disable internal search when reindexing contents and, after the indexing process is finished, re-enable it. If you switch the order, your site may return no results until something is indexed.
IMPORTANT: Don’t leave the Index Posts screen until the process finished or your data won’t be fully indexed.
Important: If you’re upgrading to v0.4.x or greater from v0.3.x or lower, deactivate the plugin and activate again to migrate settings.
Doofinder installation and activation is made as in any other plugin.
These are two ways you can install the plugin:
If you reload the Index Posts screen you should see two buttons: Resume and Cancel. Press Cancel to stop the indexing process, go back to the settings page and fix any wrong data before trying to index posts again.
Just send your questions to support@doofinder.com and we will try to answer as fast as possible with a working solution for you.
Updated Doofinder Library to the latest version.
Post date is indexed for all data types.
First usable version.