Advanced Woo Search Release: v1.92-2.18

It has been a long time since the last plugin released an overview article . During this time there were more than 20 new plugin releases with many new stuff inside. So prepare some cups of tea ( coffee? ) and take a look at all this new stuff below.

Brief summary of this article:

• New Features
• Updates
• Bug fixes
• Development changes

New Features

FacetWP plugin integration

FacetWP plugin gives the option to create different products filters and use them on your search results page. We are glad to say that now FacetWP filters are fully compatible with the Advanced Woo Search plugin search results page.
Please read more about this integration inside the plugin guide: FacetWP integration.

'Product Visibility by User Role for WooCommerce' plugin integration

Product Visibility by User Role for WooCommerce ( PVBUR ) plugin gives the option to show/hide certain WooCommerce products depending on the customer's user role.

With this new integration now Advanced Woo Search plugin will respect all user rolls limitations that were set via PVBUR and show inside search results only products that allowed to show to the current user role.

Please read more about this integration inside the plugin guide: Product Visibility by User Role for WooCommerce integration.

'YITH WooCommerce Wishlist' plugin integration

With YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin it is possible to add any of your product to the users wishlist with only one click.
Now, when the new integration is arrived, this add to wishlist button can be displayed right inside the plugin AJAX search results box.

Please read more about this integration inside the plugin guide: YITH WooCommerce Wishlist.

'BeRocket WooCommerce AJAX Products Filter' plugin integration

Create different products filters and display them right inside your shop pages with the help of BeRocket WooCommerce AJAX Products Filter plugin. And now it is fully supported with the Advanced Woo Search plugin.

Please read more about this integration inside the plugin guide: BeRocket AJAX Product Filters.

'Perfect Brands for WooCommerce' plugin integration

Perfect Brands for WooCommerce allows you to create products brands custom taxonomies and display them for each of your WooCommerce products. With this new integration you can search for these brands, display brands for each of your products inside search results and also show brands archive pages for search results.

Please read more about this integration inside the plugin guide: Perfect Brands for WooCommerce.

Search form widget for Elementor plugin

New build-in plugin search form widget for Elementor page builder plugin. Just drag&drop this widget to any place on your page where you need to display AWS plugin search form.

Standard Elementor search form element

Read more about Elementor plugin support: Elementor.

Search form module for 'Divi Builder' plugin

Another new search form module - now and for Divi Builder. Use it inside the Divi page edit screen: drag&drop module to any place of your page to display Advanced Woo Search form.

Standard Divi builde search form module

Read more about Divi Builder plugin support: Divi Builder.

'Ultimate Member' plugin integration

Ultimate Member plugin gives the option to hide certain products based on product ID or category from the certain user roles. Or vise versa show those products to certain user groups.

Now, with this new integration, Advanced Woo Search plugin search results will respect all these rules and show only products that are allowed to show for the current user.

'WP all import' plugin integration

Integration with WP all import gives feature to automatically reindex all imported WooCommerce products and add all these new data to the AWS plugin index table. Now you don't need to manually reindex the plugin table after each new product import.

WCFM - Multivendor Marketplace plugin integration

Added several integration features for WCFM plugin. Search for shop vendors, add plugin search form to the vendors shops and search for products inside these stores.

Read more about WCFM plugin support: WCFM – Multivendor Marketplace.

Elementskit plugin integration

Elementskit plugin adds many new Elementor modules and also gives the option to modify such website sections like header and footer.

New integration brings support for Elementskit header search module. If you build any custom header with this module then, if the Seamless Integration option is turned on, this default search form will be replaced with the Advanced Woo Search plugin ones.

German translation

New german language translation added.

Users search feature

New great plugin feature - option to search for site users and display them along with your WooCommerce products and taxonomies.

Show user email and url inside search results block.

Read more about users search: Users Search.

Mobile full screen option

New feature to use full screen search on mobile devices. This option can be enabled right from the plugin settings page.

Read more about mobile full screen search feature: Mobile Support.

Updates

• Flatsome theme integration.
• Ocean WP theme integration.
• Storefront theme integration.
• Astra theme integration.
• Walker theme integration.
• Venedor theme integration.
• Elessi theme integration.
• Divi theme integration.
• Woodmart theme integration.
• Jupiter theme integration.
• Twenty Twenty theme integration.
• Taxonomies search query.
• Seamless integration for Elementor plugin search module.
• Add synonyms support for taxonomies search.
• Make current search form filters active on the search results page.
• Update default settings values. Enable search page support by default.
• Increase memory and time limit for index processes to prevent potential issues.
• Update taxonomies search class.
• Add translation for SKU string inside search results list.
• Add order by quantity for search page results. Works with default WooCommerce order widget.
• Allow to add html tags inside Nothing found message that can be edited from the plugin settings page.
• Optimize loading of admin page assets.
• Change position of the live search results box to top if there is no space for it at the bottom.
• Change search results page URL parameters to prevent conflicts with other plugins.
• Wholesale plugin support update - add support for categories excluding.
• Improve support for Advanced Custom Fields ( ACF ) plugin. Add support for different fields types. Read more.
• Add new special characters to the list excluded from the product content during the index process.
• Add option to add description for archive pages inside search results.
• Diacritic chars list change.
• Support for Avada theme default shop filters.
• Quantity selection box for products results. Add min and max parameters. Add steps for quantity selection.
• Inherit some options from the free version if it exists.
• Search results box scrollbar styles. Use native css styles instead of using custom js scripts to style the scrollbar.
• Add Premium tab inside the plugin settings page with some information about PRO plugin features.

Bug fixes

• Bug with exclude filter for taxonomies search.
• Remove potential links from the product pricing. Using regular expressions to remove all a tags from the price HTML markup.
• Specify dataType for AJAX function to prevent potential issues.
• Fix conflict with WP AutoTerms plugin.
• Bug with search results display on page created with Elementor theme builder.
• Support for old WooCommerce versions: update function for getting products visibility.
• Wrong URL for search results page when using Polylang plugin.
• Bug in AND search logic for multiple search terms.
• Bug with product short description search. Change the relevance of this source.
• Remove Divi builder plugin dynamic text shortcodes from the product content.
• Bug with not synced product stock status with plugin index table on product status change.
• Bug with Show title in input option.
• Show reindex table notice only for relevant users ( who has access to manage plugin options ).
• Synonyms search for taxonomies archives.
• Search results grid layout styles change.
• Bug with not showing products that have visibility hidden inside the search results page.
• Overwrite WooCommerce global products count if it is set to zero for the plugin search results page.
• Bug with get_image_id function. Check if $image_id value is true.
• Update defaults filters support for product variations inside the search results page.
• Bug with search results display for Divi builder search page template.
• Bug with Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce plugin integration.
• Fill search form with current search query string on search results page only for the forms with the same ID.

Development

aws_search_tax_exclude filter

Filter to exclude certain taxonomies terms archive pages from the search results.

apply_filters( 'aws_search_tax_exclude', (array) $exclude, (array) $taxonomy, (string) $search_query );

aws_tax_search_data filter

Filters the array of taxonomies search data.

apply_filters( 'aws_tax_search_data', (array) $data, (array) $taxonomy );

aws_products_order filter

Filter the product on search results page after the ordering.

apply_filters( 'aws_products_order', (array) $products, (string) $order_by );

aws_before_strip_shortcodes filter

Index table hook. Filter product content strings before stripping shortcodes and add content to the plugin index table.

apply_filters( 'aws_before_strip_shortcodes', (string) $str );

aws_search_page_results filter

Filter the array of results for the search results page.

apply_filters( 'aws_search_page_results', (array) $results, (object) $query, (array) $data );

aws_products_search_page_filtered filter

Product on search results page after all filters apply.

apply_filters( 'aws_products_search_page_filtered', (array) $products );

aws_search_page_filters filter

Active product filter of current search results page. Contains such values like on_sale, price_min, price_max, rating, etc.

apply_filters( 'aws_search_page_filters', (array) $filters );

aws_search_query_string filter

Filter search query SQL string.

apply_filters( 'aws_search_query_string', (string) $sql, (int) $form_id, (int) $filter_id );

aws_image_size filter

Filter the size of product images inside search results block.

apply_filters( 'aws_image_size', (string) $image_size );

aws_products_order_by filter

Filter order by value for search results page.

apply_filters( 'aws_products_order_by', (string) $order_by, (object) $query );

aws_admin_page_options filter

Admin area hook. Filter options array for the plugin settings page.

apply_filters( 'aws_admin_page_options', (array) $options );

aws_meta_keys_unfiltered filter

Admin hook. Array of meta fields for the settings page before filtering. Include all inner meta fields ( that name starts with _ ).

apply_filters( 'aws_meta_keys_unfiltered', (array) $meta );

aws_index_complete action

Fires once the index process is complete.

do_action( 'aws_index_complete', (array) $index_meta );

aws_create_index_table action

Fires when the plugin index table is created.

do_action( 'aws_create_index_table' );

aws_results_html js filter

Filter generated HTML output for the Ajax search results block before displaying.

html = AwsHooks.apply_filters( 'aws_results_html', html, { response: response, data: d } );

aws_results_layout js filter

Filter styles for search results list before applying.

styles = AwsHooks.apply_filters( 'aws_results_layout', styles, { resultsBlock: $resultsBlock, form: self } );

aws_results_append_to js filter

CSS selector for container where search results block must be appended.

var appendResultsTo = AwsHooks.apply_filters( 'aws_results_append_to', 'body', { form: self, data: d } );

aws_show_modal_layout js filter

Show or not full screen search layout.

var show = AwsHooks.apply_filters( 'aws_show_modal_layout', false, { form: self, data: d } );

• New class for the taxonomies archive pages search.
• Add aws-focus class name when focusing on search form.
• Specify global $product variable for search results items.
• Add new parameters for aws_extracted_terms and aws_extracted_string filters. New $source parameter.
• Add aws_reindex_product action to re-index a single product by its ID.
• Update aws_show_mobile_layout filter. Change it to aws_show_modal_layout and give option to use modal layout on desktop.