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?

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.

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

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.

What is still missing?

@Jason Bosco should be able to answer that in a bit.

Ok, thank you!

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.

@Jason Bosco oh, ok. That's pretty major. Is this far away from being fixed? Would this plugin work with customer post types?

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.

@Jason Bosco yes, sure. I'm just starting my project now anyway ☺️

@Alexander Rådahl Ahlsen Good news! Since the time we spoke, @Digamber Pradhan and @Ugene Gurung 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/.