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Valu Search for WordPress

WordPress plugin for Valu Search.

This plugin has two features

• Instructs the Valu Search Crawler on how to crawl and scrape the site
• Sends live updates to the Valu Search Index as content creators add, update and delete pages

This plugin does not provide any UI. It just exposes some config options and filters for developers.

Installation

It's on Packagist

composer require valu/wp-valu-search

If not using composer download a .zip from the releases page and extract it to wp-content/plugins.

Hacking

The plugin adds a script tag to pages on your site.

If you wish to test the plugin behaviour on your site after installing it, simply refresh page, and look for script tag with id="valu-search".

Live Updates

Live updates are sent optimistically whenever the plugin thinks the content might have changed on a page. The cloud backend then does a scraping request on the page to determine what the update actually was (add, update, delete) if any.

To enable the real time updates add provided credentials to the wp-config:

define("VALU_SEARCH_USERNAME", "username");
define("VALU_SEARCH_API_SECRET", "****"); // Used to be called VALU_SEARCH_UPDATE_API_KEY
define("VALU_SEARCH_ENABLE_LIVE_UPDATES", true);

There's a filter for controlling the update process.

In the event of changing posts/pages permalink the new url gets indexed, but the old url remains in the index until the next full site crawl.

/old-url --> /new-url // new url is indexed

In the event that the changed page was of a hierarchical post type, only the updated page gets reindexed. Other pages that depend on slug of the changed page, eg. child pages get updated during next full crawl.

/old-url --> /new-url // new-url is indexed
/old-url/sub-page --> /new-url/sub-page // new-url/sub-page is not indexed.

JWT Authentication

The search endpoint access can be limited using a JWT authentication. This plugin can automatically generate JWT tokens for the @valu/react-valu-search package.

The token are generated only for logged in users but it can be customized with valu_search_allow_search_jwt filter.

Add this to wp-config.php to enable it:

define("VALU_SEARCH_API_SECRET", "****");
define("VALU_SEARCH_AUTHENTICATED_SEARCH", true);

This feature requires PHP-JWT to be installed.

Filters

valu_search_content_selector

Parameters

• $selector (string) CSS selector for picking the content elements
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Multiple selectors can be separated by comma. Ex. .content,.main

valu_search_no_highlight_content_selector

Parameters

• $selector (string) CSS selector for picking the content elements
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Multiple selectors can be separated by comma. Ex. .content,.main

Matching html content is indexed separately from previous valu_search_content_selector. Content is not highlighted in the search ui, but behaves exactly like other content including being searchable and language analyzed.

valu_search_cleanup_selector

Parameters

• $selector (string) CSS selector for removing elements
• $post (WP_Post) The post of the page being indexed

Remove content from selected elements.

valu_search_show_in_search

Parameters

• $show (boolean) whether to index the page at all
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

$show is false if post status is not public OR if the post is archive.

valu_search_title

Parameters

• $title(string) if the post being indexed is archive, the archive title otherwise the post title
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

By default HTML entities in $title are decoded using html_entity_decode. To use HTML entities in titles filter $title through htmlentities.

valu_search_created

Parameters

• $created (date) the created date of page being indexed
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

valu_search_modified

Parameters

• $modified (date) the modified date of page being indexed
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

valu_search_tags

Parameters

• $tags (string[]) Array of tags
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

List of tags the page gets indexed with. By default the post type, taxonomy terms, static wordpress and public / private tags are added. These tags can be used to build custom filtering UIs.

valu_search_custom_fields

Parameters

• $custom_fields_associative_array (array("keyword"=>[], "date"=>[], "number"=>[]);) Associative array containing all custom fields associative arrays
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Custom fields related to the page.

valu_search_custom_fields_date

Parameters

• $custom_fields_date_associative_array ([]) Associative_array containing custom date field key value pairs
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Custom date fields related to the page. e.g. eventStart, eventEnd

valu_search_custom_fields_keyword

Parameters

• $custom_fields_keyword_associative_array ([]) Associative_array containing custom keyword field key value pairs
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Custom keyword fields related to the page. e.g. productPreview, productId

valu_search_custom_fields_number

Parameters

• $custom_fields_number_associative_array ([]) Associative_array containing custom keyword field key value pairs
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Custom number fields related to the page. e.g. productPrice

valu_search_superwords

Parameters

• $superwords(string[]) Array of superwords
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

List of superwords indexed with the page. By default empty array. Superwords can be used to mark page as an important search result for the superwords given. Search results with matching superwords are shown first in results.

valu_search_page_meta

• $meta (assoc array)
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

The full data rendered to the meta tag.

See all available fields on https://search.valu.pro/page-meta

valu_search_site_meta

• $meta (assoc array)
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being indexed

Global options for the crawler exposed on yoursite.example/valu-search.json.

See all available fields on https://search.valu.pro/site-meta

valu_search_should_update

Parameters

• $should_update (boolean) defaults to value of php_sapi_name() !== 'cli'
• $post (WP_Post) the post of the page being updated

Return false to prevent the page from being updated.

'valu_search_show_admin_notices'

• $show_notices (boolean) defaults to false

Return true to enable notices about live updates in wp-admin

Actions

'valu_search_live_update_result'

Action is fired everytime live update request is done

• $response return type of wp_remote_request() (array|WP_Error)

API

\ValuSearch\enqueue_live_update(\WP_Post $post)

Enqueues a post live update to be sent at the end of the WordPress request in the shutdown action. Can be called multiple times and the update will be batched.

\ValuSearch\live_update(array $posts)

Immediately live update the given posts.