WP Search Analytics Plugin

WP Search Analytics will keep history of the search terms used by your users and group them in a set of statistics including the number of posts resulted from that search term.

It can easily aid you in finding what your users are really searching for on your website and make sure you provide exactly what they need.

Help and/or ideas are greatly appreciated! You can contribute to the GitHub repository: WP Search Analytics

NOTE: WP Search Analytics stores all the statistics in your WordPress database. No info is sent to third-party services!

Features

• Record all the search queries made using the standard WordPress search form.
• Exclude searches made by users with certain user roles or with certain IP addresses
• Exclude duplicate searches made in certain conditions
• Choose which user roles are allowed to see the statistics
• Filter statistics by time periods, with/without results, strings/substrings
• View each term individual statistics
• Export data in the current view to CSV
• Easily delete certain search terms from history
• Easily erase all history from the database in case a reset is needed
• Easily erase history older than in case a general cleanup is needed
• Dashboard widget for a quick glance over your last week’s search stats
• Multisite compatible
• Country Geolocation
• Display search statistics on the front of your website using shortcodes

WP Search Analytics can be installed via the WordPress Automatic Plugin Install page in the admin panel.
It can also be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory and installed manually.

After the installation and activation is complete you should visit the plugin’s settings page ( Settings -> MWT: Search Analytics ) to make sure it is properly configured for your needs.

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   Main statistics view with time filters

2. 

   Export data to CSV

3. 

   Single term statistics view

4. 

   Single term statistics view with results grouped by date

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   Settings page

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   Dashboard widget

7. 

   Erase history section in the settings page

1.4.9

• Bugfix: Fixed warnings showing on specific combination of filters and grouping. Reported here. Thank you @sadesades for the detailed report!

1.4.8

• Optimization: (ENCORE) Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed this vulnerability
• Optimization: adjust some translations

1.4.7

• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed this vulnerability

1.4.6

• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization. Fixed this vulnerability
• Bugfix: Charts not working after changing interval or chart type

1.4.5

• Bugfix: Fix PHP Compatibility issue: PHP 5.6 – 7.2

1.4.4

• Bugfix: Date filters not working if the browser is set in a language different from English
• Feature: Add setting: “Show results dates as UTC”, default: true
• Feature: Make dates in the results list show as UTC by default.
• Feature: Add 6 more filters and 2 actions for developers to be able to extend the plugin. An overview post will be published here: WP Search Analytics: Filters Reference
• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
• Optimization: Updates to the settings page
• Deprecations: Deprecated the mwt_wp_date_format_to_js_datepicker_format() helper function

1.4.3

• Bugfix: Make sure that shortcode mwtsa_display_latest_searches displays unique terms
• Feature: Add more parameters to some filters. An overview post will be published here: WP Search Analytics: Filters Reference

1.4.2 Hotfix

• Bugfix: fix default filters in the results view

1.4.1

• Feature: Add shortcode mwtsa_display_latest_searches for displaying the latest searches on the frontend of the website
• Feature: Add 3 more filters for developers to be able to extend the plugin. An overview post will be published here: WP Search Analytics: Filters Reference
• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
• Others: Add link to the complete changelog

1.4.0

• Feature: Add REST API search support
• Feature: Add 9 filters for developers to be able to extend the plugin. An overview post will be published here: WP Search Analytics: Filters Reference
• Optimization: Add the search term to the mwtsa_extra_exclude_conditions filter
• Optimization: Check for minimum PHP and WP versions when activating the plugin
• Optimization: Compatibility with WP versions up to 6.0.1
• Optimization: Compatibility with PHP v8.1
• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
• Bugfix: Fix styling on WP 4.4.0 – 4.9.20
• Bugfix: Fix broken settings page URL from the results page
• Others: Rename the plugin to “WP Search Analytics”

1.3.6

• Bugfix: Users can not see the statistics page in some cases. Bug report
• Bugfix: Database error on term delete success page
• Optimization: Compatibility with WP versions up to 5.8
• Optimization: Compatibility with PHP versions between 5.6 – 8.0
• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization
• Optimization: Remove filters and groups on the term delete success page
• Others: Add more “Useful Links”
• Others: Add quick rate tool

1.3.5

• Bugfix: Fix dates filter not allowing you to select the current day in certain timezones
• Bugfix: Deleting multiple entries with the bulk action would trigger 2 notices
• Feature: Add support for WpForo
• Feature: Add mwtsa_export_filename filter to allow control over the filename generated when exporting data
• Feature: Add shortcode mwtsa_display_search_stats for displaying search statistics on the frontend of the website
• Optimization: Prepare the plugin for community translation
• Optimization: Security improvements and general code optimization

1.3.4 Hotfix

• Bugfix: Fix fatal error for missing wp_timezone() in WP < 5.3.0

1.3.3

• Bugfix: Times displayed in UTC time instead of the website’s timezone
• Feature: allow filtering searches by user
• Experimental Feature: prevent terms from being saved if they contain certain substrings
• Experimental Feature: allow the plugin to capture search strings from custom search parameters
• Optimization: hook load_plugin_textdomain on the init action instead of the plugins_loaded one
• Optimization: prefix helper functions create_date_range and get_current_user_ip with mwt_ to avoid eventual naming conflicts

1.3.2

• Bugfix: “Only display the statistics and settings page for these user roles” not working correctly
• Bugfix: Fix missing script error if charts disabled
• Bugfix: Add prefix to the option setting group to prevent conflicts
• Bugfix: Database error if search-term URL param is empty
• Feature: Split the “Only display the statistics and settings page for these user roles” in 2 different settings
• Optimization: compatibility with WP versions up to 5.4
• Optimization: Add prefix to the option setting group to prevent conflicts
• Optimization: Review and patch the plugin from a security perspective
• Optimization: Made sure administrator display rights can not be taken away by making the field disabled

1.3.1 Hotfix

• Bugfix: database not being updated correctly in case of plugin update. It only worked for manual plugin activation
• Bugfix: search country locked to Canada.

1.3.0

• Feature: add save_search_term() method to allow external search saving
• Feature: add mwtsa_extra_exclude_conditions filter to allow more control over the conditions in which a search is processed
• Feature: add mwtsa_exclude_term filter to allow more control over the conditions in which terms are saved
• Feature: save searches by user so the user can see his search history
• Feature: add country geolocation for the searches
• Feature: add more options for the chart
• Feature: add period comparison in the chart
• Optimization: compatibility with version 5.2.2
• Optimization: Add multisite support
• Optimization: Build separate methods for displaying charts to be able to easily integrate it in other views
• Optimization: Make chart include “today”
• Optimization: general code optimizations
• Optimization: general code optimizations

1.2.3

• Feature: add ability to delete all search history older than a selected number of days
• Feature: add setting: “Exclude searches from IPs list”
• Feature: add setting: “Only record searches with at least the number of characters”
• Feature: add “Ungroup” view for the list of terms for having a chronological data view
• Optimization: compatibility with version 5.1
• Optimization: change default sort to last search date
• Optimization: average number of results column to only 2 decimals
• Optimization: update the singleton pattern

1.2.2

• Bugfix: fix bug in the database version update
• Bugfix: “By Hour” group is not working correctly
• Bugfix: “Hide graphical charts” setting not working correctly
• Feature: Add a setting for using a cookie for previously logged in user for not counting searches made by users having a user role in the excluded roles list
• Feature: Add a setting for not counting duplicate searches over a period of time
• Feature: add role visibility for the dashboard widget
• Optimization: update the way Group By works on the term details view
• Optimization: use function_exists() and class_exists() for all function/class declarations
• Optimization: add javascript graph compatibility with older IE versions
• Optimization: show fewer points on the Y axis on the graphical chart if search count gets high

1.2.1

• Bugfix: fix “Unknown column ‘average_posts’ in ‘where clause'” error on single term view ( introduced in v1.2.0 )
• Bugfix: remove bulk actions on single term view ( introduced in v1.2.0 )
• Bugfix: fix “Last 24 hours” time filter ( introduced in v1.2.0 )
• Feature: add admin dashboard widget with last week stats
• Feature: add possibility to group single term view results by day and hour
• Feature: add charts for graphical data representation
• Optimization: add link on searched term for faster navigation
• Optimization: make custom views and filters language variables ( introduced in v1.2.0 )
• Optimization: make all date and time columns use WP date and time format settings
• Optimization: code updates to better comply to the WP coding standards

1.2.0

• Bugfix: fix PHP notice on the settings page ( introduced in v1.0.3 )
• Bugfix: fix search resetting time and result filters ( introduced in v1.1.2 )
• Bugfix: fix notice “Undefined index: date_from” ( introduced in v1.1.2 )
• Bugfix: fix notice “Undefined index: date_to” ( introduced in v1.1.2 )
• Feature: ability to download history in a CSV file
• Feature: add single term view with detailed search historical stats
• Feature: ability to choose which user roles can see the search history stats
• Optimization: set table names in plugin constants for cleaner calls
• Optimization: move history data return from db function to independent static class.
• Optimization: change time filter default to “All Time”

1.1.3

• Bugfix: fix jquery.ui load over https ( introduced in v1.1.2 )

1.1.2

• Bugfix: make stats page full responsive ( introduced in v1.1 )
• Feature: add filters: all, only successful, only unsuccessful ( 0 posts ) results
• Feature: Time range filters
• Optimization: make bulk action “Delete” use language variable ( introduced in v1.1.1 )
• Optimization: add screen option to allow selection of number of results per page
• Optimization: last search date – sortable column
• Optimization: add “clear” option to the date pickers
• Optimization: add 2 months view on the calendars

1.1.1

• Bugfix: remove limit of results on the table ( introduced in v1.1 )
• Feature: ability to delete terms from the results
• Feature: bulk terms delete action
• Optimization: results per page reduced from 30 to 20

1.1

• Bugfix: exclude empty search strings ( introduced in v1.0 )
• Design: display tables using the WordPress Admin Tables
• Feature: pagination for better data analysis
• Feature: custom sorting on all columns
• Feature: filter results by string

1.0.4

• fix a warning occurring in certain cases on search

1.0.3

• Add ability to delete all history
• Add ability to remove the tables on plugin deactivate
• Stats page restyling

1.0.2

• Update results sorting for better viewing the data
• Minimum styling on the stats page
• Add link to the settings page

1.0.1

• Fix deprecated notice

1.0

• Initial Release