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Scalability Pro 4.98 19 October 2022

Added update for new creations of options index to make it unique on options_name (SSS will also fix this as it's the plugin that requires it)

Scalability Pro 4.98 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.36 Beta 19 October 2022

Fixed bug which was causing additional variations to not appear in post.php
Added new defines SSF_REMOVE_SHOP_FROM_BREADCRUMBS – set it to true in your wp-config.php to remove the link to /shop/ or whatever your shop URL is from your breadcrumbs

Super Speedy Filters 4.36 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.35 Beta 19 October 2022

Altered post_type check to just check if post_type product exists in array or as string, and set it if it doesn't (when we're on a woo archive) – fix for some themes
Fixed h1 titles option to be FORCE h1 titles. The advanced option now is the override for both of these, and you can optionally use force h1 if your theme doesn't display the h1 for some reason.
Added new Show Filtered Variations option – if a user filters on red, if color is enabled in this setting, the red variation image will be shown in the archive rather than parent image
Fixed fww_object_ancestors maintenance – was getting out of sync
Tested SSF_OPTIMISE_TAX_QUERIES thoroughly – this is ready to go live
Fixed stock check attributes so it checks stock on these items even if they are not currently being filtered, e.g if filtering by size M, but only colour is set to stock check, we still need to check colour has size M in stock

Super Speedy Filters 4.35 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.21 19 October 2022

Implemented Smart variation search + rollup – two new defines.php options
if the search matches more than 1 item in the parent product, you will see the parent, otherwise you'll see the variation
this means if a user searches 'white dresses' they'll see an archive full of white items
SSS_SEARCH_VARIATIONS – defaults to true – whether to search variations as well as parent products for woocommerce searches
SSS_ROLLUP_VARIATIONS – defaults to true – whether to group search matches to the parent (true) or show individual variations (false)
Added new Misspellings & Synonyms taxonomy – a new tag-like meta-box now appears on all post types where you can enter misspellings and/or synonyms for the item
Fixed build job so that it creates the unique wp_options(option_name) index if it doesn't exist and then correctly UPSERTS the DB version number. This fixes the issue with DB version staying 0 for new users.
Added new pre_sss_meta_keys for massive websites – add a filter on this to return an array of meta_keys to show on the META KEYS tab and we will not scan wp_postmeta
Fixed product counting bug for variations when a filter was applied. SQL was joining to children twice which meant that it was behaving as if the filter was not applied.

Super Speedy Search 3.21 in its changelog

External Images 2.82 18 October 2022

Extra override to ei_get_image_meta if guid empty to return empty array immediately

External Images 2.82 in its changelog

External Images 2.81 18 October 2022

Added override to ei_get_image_meta if $post_id = 0 return empty array immediately

External Images 2.81 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.97 18 October 2022

Fix for Remove Sort Order so it doesn't affect wp-admin stuff, orders, products etc

Scalability Pro 4.97 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.20 17 October 2022

Hardened pre_get_posts check since some themes incorrectly report is_search as true when there is no search string

Super Speedy Search 3.20 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.34 Beta 14 October 2022

Renamed SSF_PREVENT_FILTERS_BEING_FILTERED_BY_SEARCH to SSF_MAKE_FILTERS_BE_FILTERED_BY_SEARCH and inverted the conditional check. SSF_MAKE_FILTERS_BE_FILTERED_BY_SEARCH is OFF by default. Still not fast enough. It runs against the superspeedysearch table rather than the object_ancestors table. If your search results tend to restrict searches enough to few enough rows you can enable this. This got added because of a client with large taxonomy descriptions which meant a lot of items being matched. Even with them being sorted to the bottom, building the filters and their counts still was expensive.

Super Speedy Filters 4.34 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.33 Beta 14 October 2022

Updated addH1titles to be FORCE h1 titles. Now if you use the normal advanced option, it will try to filter woocommerce_page_title. However, some themes do not use this so we have the option to force the h1 title in those cases.
Added new define('SSF_PREVENT_FILTERS_BEING_FILTERED_BY_SEARCH', true); to prevent filters being filtered by search by default, change it to false if you want the opposite
Reduced usage of object cache – no longer storing widget HTML, just storing the SQL keyed on the md5 of the query. This fixes another bug where if we didn't know about a URL parameter and it was present the first time the widget was generated, that param would stick around.

Super Speedy Filters 4.33 Beta in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.96 13 October 2022

Added new semi-permanent cache for months and other cache from VIP code – ugosprint found when running imports, the regular WP cache is constantly being flushed so updating orders was taking 30 seconds as a result

Scalability Pro 4.96 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.95 13 October 2022

Fixed override for removing pagination on back-end edit.php – the options object was not checked properly
Added permanent override to remove unneeded DISTINCT which was causing table scans on posts_clauses – if LIMIT = 0, 1 or LIMIT = 1 then remove DISTINCT since it's not required and will cause a table scan – this is applied across all $wpdb queries
2 new indexes on WP All Import.pmxi_posts which speeds up large imports quite a bit
Fixed the wp_posts.post_title index – this was why index counts were sometimes wrong on some setups and it kept telling you there was one more index to create
New index on wp_actionscheduler_actions – I've been seeing a LOT of slow activity on this newish table once stores get larger. Speeds up CRON in particular and reduces background load on the server.

Scalability Pro 4.95 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.94 12 October 2022

Upgrade and fix for defer term counts – speeds up imports for all post types, not just products, product import speed also boosted with this upgraded technique

Scalability Pro 4.94 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.32 Beta 10 October 2022

Updated nouislider CS/JSS to latest from https://github.com/leongersen/noUiSlider
Added new filter for get_categories to remove _pad_term_counts if Remove Woo Baggage option is enabled

Super Speedy Filters 4.32 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.19 BETA 10 October 2022

Altered JS back to use old way of Ajax until upgrade is complete so i can merge this code to core

Super Speedy Search 3.19 BETA in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.18 BETA 10 October 2022

Improved weights to match mismatched titles far better – e.g. search padre hats against a product called padres hat will match better now
Added new wp-config define option define('SSS_ONLY_SEARCH_TITLE', false); – set this to true in wp-config.php if you want to force everything to only search the title. Should RARELY be used since it ruins searches based on plurals, e.g. Black Hat product, in the Hats category, with this enabled search for black hats will fail, only black hat would work.

Super Speedy Search 3.18 BETA in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.17 BETA 10 October 2022

Added new ajax handler with two paths for nginx/apache

Super Speedy Search 3.17 BETA in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.93 5 October 2022

Added override for remove pagination on front-end if post_type empty or post_type = 'course' for compatibility with LifterLMS dashboard which expects the rowcounts and bails infinitely if the rowcounts are not there.

Scalability Pro 4.93 in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.31 Beta 4 October 2022

Companion fix for SSS SKU search against child variations. Now works with beta show single variations option and without.

Super Speedy Filters 4.31 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.30 Beta 4 October 2022

Extra debug

Super Speedy Filters 4.30 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Filters 4.28 Beta 4 October 2022

Added some hidden debug HTML comments output to assist with debugging H1 titles on a site I do not have SFTP access to

Super Speedy Filters 4.28 Beta in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.16 4 October 2022

HotFix for searches with beta show single variations feature when using product_hidden flag

Super Speedy Search 3.16 in its changelog

Super Speedy Search 3.15 4 October 2022

Fix for SKU search against child variations, now works correctly with both new SSF beta 'show single variations' and without that option enabled. Fix requires update for SSF too. = 3.14 (23rd September 2022)
Added fix for orphaned term data left over by deactivated WPML. This fixes taxonomy search in ajax and full page results on those sites.
Added priority fix for SEARCH RELEVANCY so that it overrides Scalability Pro = 3.13 (6th September 2022)
Added new SSS_FORCE_OPTIMIZE_IN_BUILD command for fixing broken builds – removing OPTIMIZE speeds up the initial SSS build massively
Fixed bug that was causing ORDER BY searches to break if WooCommerce was not installed. = 3.12 (6th September 2022)
Moved 3 of the defines.php variables into the settings page now that they are ready – back-end search speed boost, link builder filename search removal, link builder tag search removal
Added far more speed for the link builder search
Added far more speed for edit.php search – this is where you filter most of your post types (e.g. pages and posts and most custom post types)
Fixed a bug with edit.php where ordering by date was breaking
Fixed bug with DB error if you added postmeta items to be searched and then removed them = 3.11 (5th September 2022)
Version bump = 3.10 (5th September 2022)
Added new option to prevent slow post.php link builder tag search – set SSS_REMOVE_SLOW_LINK_TAG_SEARCH true in wp-config
Added new option to prevent slow post.php link builder media filename search – set SSS_REMOVE_SLOW_LINK_FILENAME_SEARCH true in wp-config = 3.09 (30th August 2022)
Added fix for table build for users with PerconaDB to avoid using the OPTIMIZE TABLE command since it does not work efficiently on InnoDB Percona = 3.08 (19th August 2022)
Fixed order item name search so that it will continue to use open-ended wildcard search – this table is always far smaller than wp_postmeta, but in future I should add a full text index to wp_woocommerce_order_items = 3.07 (18th August 2022)
Fixed stupid little bug where order search override only enabled if you also enabled woo admin product search override = 3.06 (18th August 2022)
Added new option to upgrade the wp-admin > WooCommerce > Order search and make it far faster
Fixed a couple of warnings that appear in debug.log on first install, prior to tables being built = 3.05 (9th August 2022)
Added supress_filters => false override when SSS is kicking in – this fixes an issue with the CLASSIC link builder speed which was suppressing our overrides = 3.04 (6th July 2022)
Added new defines option SSS_OVERRIDE_ADMIN_SEARCHES – if you define this as true in wp-config, SSS will take control of media searches and other admin searches = 3.03 Beta (9th June 2022)
Fixed DB version issue for new installs where it was trying to upgrade the tables when they didn't exist yet = 3.02 Beta (1st June 2022)
Fixed warning issue for undefined variable sss_posts_search = 3.01 Beta (23rd May 2022)
Altered query filtering priorities to be compatible with latest Super Speedy Filters and updated Scalability Pro config = 3.00 Beta (12th May 2022)
Added term update/delete hooks to maintain superspeedysearch table if users edit term descriptions or term names
Added sss_rebuild_terms function to hooks = 2.99 Beta (12th May 2022)
Added new green light system for Super Speedy Search Readiness – will help new users check if everything is ready before enabling search
Added option to enable/disable suggestions on Ajax panel
Added option to enable/disable WooCommerce wp-admin > Products search for administrators = 2.98 Beta (10th May 2022)
Added missing content weight – to config, to actual query, to weight output for admins
Added missing taxonomy description – if you store author names in the taxonomy description, they are now searchable
Added DB Upgrade code – from anything prior to 2.98, a new index will be created on wp_superspeedysearch if the table exists = 2.97 Beta (10th May 2022)
Added ?showweights URL parameter – set this to 1 on the URL to view the weights on a search results page (only visible for administrators)
Fixed bug in title weights and other text-match weights – was doing BOOLEAN match which doesn't give score = 2.96 Beta (9th May 2022)
Fixed bug in sss_update_posts hooked onto wp_insert_post to properly update superspeedysearch if woocommerce not present!
Removed a couple of warnings that were firing when saving settings without any custom suggestions added = 2.95 Beta (5th May 2022)
Removed JS console logging (was logging keypresses, ajax calls etc for debug) = 2.94 Beta (5th May 2022)
Fixed background scheduling = 2.93 Beta (5th May 2022)
Hotfix for autosuggest = 2.92 Beta (4th May 2022)
JavaScript fix for 2.91 update to use standard ajax for post-types if override definition not entered = 2.91 Beta (4th May 2022)
Removed verbose logging to debug.log
Added new definition SSS_USE_FAST_SUGGESTIONS_AJAX – SSS will now default to using normal admin-ajax.php but if your server supports it, you can add this definition to wp-config.php for faster suggestions (set it true). Add define( 'SSS_USE_FAST_SUGGESTIONS_AJAX', true ); to wp-config.php if you can allow access to plugins/super-speedy-search/sss-fast-suggestion-ajax.php
Removed cancel build button after build successfully cancelled
Fixed bug in table build causing build to fail if WooCommerce not installed
Added new toggle option to settings to enable/disable overriding search results so users can compare speeds with and without super speedy search easily
Fixed minor CSS issue with search form container
Added new fast_ajax param that gets passed to all ajax calls, even the traditionally slow ajax calls – to take advantage of this, users need to alter wp-config.php and add the following code: if (isset($_REQUEST['fastajax']) && $_REQUEST['fastajax'] == 'true') { define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); }
Improved default weights for new users = 2.90 Beta (29th April 2022)
Reduced size of batch key for temp tables to avoid exceeding 64-character limit if users have larger table prefix = 2.89 Beta (28th April 2022)
Fixed removal of start building suggestions – if you manually start the build, only the cancel button will appear on admin pages = 2.88 Beta (27th April 2022)
Removed 'Start building suggestions' button after user clicks it to avoid people clicking multiple times = 2.87 Beta (20th April 2022)
Fixed error in admin ordering of ajax post types – wasn't displaying the relevant labels for each post type in the admin area = 2.86 Beta (20th April 2022)
Fixed broken weights after refactoring from 2.83 = 2.85 Beta (20th April 2022)
Added cancel button to suggestions build – useful if build was stalled from hosts cancelling long-running queries and admin/user is running initial SQL manually = 2.84 Beta (18th April 2022)
Added sss_rebuild_terms function to rebuild wp_superspeedysearch_terms when terms are altered – fixes taxonomy search = 2.83 Beta (18th April 2022)
Added @twardys updated SALES flash styling – looks great!
Remove some of @marins css customisations as they were site-specific
Fixed initial load of first settings tab to hide the weights
Added new option for 'strict search' – reintroduces the +search +word modifier which forces the query to require all words – faster and more accurate results
Added default numitems of 5 for new users for ajax search result count
Added new function for admins doing imports which bypass do_action calls – if do_action bypassed, users need to call sss_update_posts($post_id) with a post_id or an array of post_ids = 2.82 Beta (18th April 2022)
Refactored sss.php to have better interoperability with super speedy filters
Removed unused files
Fixed meta fulltext search to only search relevant meta_keys
Removed some PHP warnings
Added static boost for matching meta values
Added taxonomy descriptions to ajax output = 2.81 Beta (3rd April 2022)
Added $post->ID to get_permalink call

Super Speedy Search 3.15 in its changelog

Scalability Pro 4.92 3 October 2022

Finally found the real issue – there was an uncommitted change in SSS to overrule Spro sort order and there was an incorrect rule to only remove sort order for products, and the check for main query had been removed. All fixed.

Scalability Pro 4.92 in its changelog