If you have, say, 20 posts/pages on your WordPress site, the search functionality that is baked right into your self-hosted WordPress site will probably do a great job. Search is a pretty cool feature to ship with WordPress, truth be told. But as a site grows, you’ll find limits. How it works behind the scenes is...
CSS-Tricks is a WordPress site. WordPress has a built-in search feature, but it isn’t tremendously useful. I don’t blame it, really. Search is a product onto itself and WordPress is a CMS company, not a search company.You know how you can make a really powerful search engine for your site? Here you go: &...
This article was originally published on OKTA Blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Angular (formerly called Angular 2.0) is quickly becoming one of the most powerful ways to build a modern single-page app. A core strength is Angular’s focus on building reusable components, which he...
Laravel Scout is a driver-based library for adding full-text search to Eloquent models. If you’re not familiar with Laravel or Eloquent models in general, we have a good premium course available here. In this tutorial, we will create a minimal lyrics web site using Laravel Scout and Algolia. To do so, we need a C...
We [ParagonIE] get asked the same question a lot (or some remix of it). This question shows up from time to time in open source encryption libraries’ bug trackers. This was one of the “weird problems” covered in my talk at B-Sides Orlando (titled Building Defensible Solutions to Weird Problems), and w...
View demo Download source Today we’d like to share a couple of ideas for search interaction effects with you. Mainly, we’d like to provide you with some inspiration for how to show the search interface in an interesting way. Maybe you’ve seen some modern animations for showing the search already, lik...
This popular article was updated in May, 2016, to reflect the current state of text highlighter plugins. Many applications or websites provide a way for users to search for specific terms. To make this process faster, offer a great user experience, and generally help users find the content they’re searching for, ...
Many WordPress superpowers come from its flexible data architecture that allows developers to widely customize their installations with custom post types, taxonomies and fields. However, when it comes down to its search, WordPress provides us with only one-field form that often appears inadequate and...
In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at Elasticsearch and how we can use it in PHP. Elasticsearch is an open-source search server based on Apache Lucene. We can use it to perform super fast full-text and other complex searches. It also includes a REST API which allows us to easily issue requests for creating,...
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