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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.

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Oct 06, 2021 (25 months ago)
Alexander
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Alexander
01:18 PM
Hi there! I’m coming from Algolia and have a couple of questions:
1. 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
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Kishore Nallan
01:21 PM
1. Is this related to the Algolia answers feature? We don't support that.
2. We don't have a wordpress plugin. The indexing post posts have to be managed outside using the PHP client.
Alexander
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Alexander
01:28 PM
1. No, it’s about what content is searchable. If every wine have different data like bitterness, grapes, regions. Will the user be able to search for a wine with these attributes? Like “Bitter red wine from France”?
2. You have one here? https://github.com/typesense/typesense-wordpress-plugin
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
01:39 PM
1. Yes that is possible. You can just query across multiple fields.
2. 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
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Alexander
01:49 PM
What is still missing?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
01:52 PM
Jason should be able to answer that in a bit.
Alexander
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Alexander
02:26 PM
Ok, thank you!
Jason
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Jason
02:30 PM
It has a bug that prevents it from being configured, before it can be used. If you install it from the branch indicated in the readme you’ll see the error.
Alexander
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Alexander
02:33 PM
Jason oh, ok. That's pretty major. Is this far away from being fixed? Would this plugin work with customer post types?
Jason
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Jason
03:40 PM
ETA for fix is dependent on how many folks ask for it and more importantly if we can find users who’d be willing to alpha test it 😀

I’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.
03:40
Jason
03:40 PM
Alexander would you be down for alpha testing?
Alexander
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Alexander
04:19 PM
Jason yes, sure. I'm just starting my project now anyway ☺️
Jan 05, 2022 (22 months ago)
Jason
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Jason
12:27 AM
Alexander Good news! Since the time we spoke, Digamber and Ugene have built a Wordpress plugin for Typesense and published it in the Wordpress directory.

Here's a link to it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-with-typesense/.