Typesense Plugin and Free Searches in Wordpress
TLDR Alexander asked about free search capability and Wordpress compatibility with Typesense. Kishore Nallan and Jason confirmed these, but mentioned the Typesense Wordpress plugin is in alpha stage, inviting Alexander to alpha test it. Later, they shared the published plugin link.
Oct 06, 2021 (25 months ago)
Alexander
01:18 PM1. Can I do free search? I have a DB of wine with different facets like grapes, cispness, taste description. Would my users be able to write “I’m looking for a crispy white wine from France” and it would read all these fields and find it?
2. Can your system index and use custom post types and fields in Wordpress? Or is it just standard posts and pages?
Kishore Nallan
01:21 PM2. We don't have a wordpress plugin. The indexing post posts have to be managed outside using the PHP client.
Alexander
01:28 PM2. You have one here? https://github.com/typesense/typesense-wordpress-plugin
Kishore Nallan
01:39 PM2. It is still in alpha stages, and is not yet ready to be used. It's open source, so if you're down for it, we can collaborate on getting it ready for use.
Alexander
01:49 PMKishore Nallan
01:52 PMAlexander
02:26 PMJason
02:30 PMAlexander
02:33 PMJason
03:40 PMI’m not sure if it will or will not work with custom post types. It’s a fork of the Algolia WP plugin with just enough changes to get it to work with Typesense. So need to see if the original plugin supports it.
Jason
03:40 PMAlexander
04:19 PMJan 05, 2022 (22 months ago)
Jason
12:27 AMHere's a link to it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-with-typesense/.
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