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WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search

Extends the default fulltext search with relevance, jet speed and ability to search any posts, metadata, taxonomy, shortcode content and more data.

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0
WordPress database error Duplicate entry

WordPress database error Duplicate entry: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor better search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
WordPress database error Duplicate entry Hi, I was looking at my PHP error.log file and noticed quite a few entries like these: [04-Jul-2024 12:34:47 UTC] WordPress database error Duplicate entry '1022765-wp_posts' for key 'tid_tsrc_unique' for query insert into wpftsi_index ( tid , tsrc , tdt , build_time , update_dt , force_rebuild , locked_dt ) values ("1
complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0
Post missing, search results’ order

Post missing, search results’ order: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Post missing, search results’ order Hi, After updating to v1.65.225, I’ve noticed some things changed in search results after having to re-index our whole database.
complaint review · high severity · relevance 1.0
Nothing positive to say

Nothing positive to say: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor better search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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I wasn’t happy with the search results quality of Better Search, and he indicated that WP Fulltext Search might improve the results.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
Database File Name Prefix

Database File Name Prefix: users show security, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Database File Name Prefix Hi Is there any reason why I shouldn’t change the prefixes of the wpftsi files in my database?
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.9
Error with indexing after upgrade

Error with indexing after upgrade: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor better search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Error with indexing after upgrade We are PRO users and have paid for several years out for support.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.88
Fatal error for PHP 8.2.6

Fatal error for PHP 8.2.6: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Fatal error for PHP 8.2.6 Hi, I get a white screen and the following error in the debugger after entering a query in the search form for WP Fast Total Search 1.55.201 : Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Division by zero in /***/wp-content/plugins/fulltext-search/includes/wpfts_search.php on line 1168 Call stack: WPFTS_Search::sql_parts() wp-content/plugins/fullte
praise review · high severity · relevance 0.72
Great Service! Great Plugin

Great Service! Great Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Great Service!
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.93
Does not improve search speed in many cases

Does not improve search speed in many cases: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Does not improve search speed in many cases I installed this plugin as a possible alternative to Solr or Sphinx powered search plugins because not having to manage them would be a big plus.
mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Good not great, for my sites anyway

Good not great, for my sites anyway: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Good not great, for my sites anyway I evaluated WPFTS on a few demo and staging sites with an eye toward buying pro.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Recurrent Warning in Error Log

Recurrent Warning in Error Log: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Recurrent Warning in Error Log Since I installed this plugin, I keep seeing a recurring warning in the PHP error log: AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Warning: Undefined array key “file” in / httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/fulltext-search/includes/wpfts_querylog.php on line 520; I’m running PHP version 8.4, WordPress 6.8.1, and the plugin is updated to the

Competitor Context

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Relevanssi – A Better Search weak incumbent · intel 78.6 · weakness 65.8
weak incumbent
6 unresolved support thread(s) 19 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
Swiftype Site Search Plugin for WordPress praise owner · intel 78.0 · weakness 70.2
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter weak incumbent · intel 73.5 · weakness 58.6
weak incumbent
3 unresolved support thread(s) 18 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
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ACF: Better Search praise owner · intel 69.7 · weakness 53.5
praise owner
1 unresolved support thread(s) 15 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility performance 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight advanced custom fields code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress praise owner · intel 66.8 · weakness 49.9
praise owner
8 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
Yuto – Meilisearch Integrator praise owner · intel 59.5 · weakness 43.6
praise owner
1 unresolved support thread(s) 11 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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SearchIQ – The Search Solution praise owner · intel 57.8 · weakness 37.3
praise owner
2 unresolved support thread(s) 4 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor ajax search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
Site Search 360 praise owner · intel 56.6 · weakness 35.4
praise owner
5 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
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Collected Signals

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neutral PHP Warning: The float-string “9223372036854776064” is not representable support · 2026-02-18T17:56:20+00:00 · low severity · better search

WP Fast Total Search logs a PHP 8.5 integer cast warning in its search code, with no user-facing impact described.

Evidence: PHP Warning: The float-string “9223372036854776064” is not representable as an int
bugs compatibility search indexing search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint 502 Bad Gateway support · 2025-12-19T11:23:29+00:00 · medium severity · better search

A vendor hosting outage caused 502 errors for license-key updates and made the user ask whether the service was still operating.

Evidence: Are you still operating?
support bugs license update server search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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question Search results for tab content support · 2025-10-01T20:14:21+00:00 · medium severity · better search

The user appreciated tab-content indexing but wanted search results to link to or identify the exact tab containing the match.

Evidence: Is there a way to have the search results link specifically to the tab content they’re displaying?
missing feature quality tab content results search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Why the plugin is loading on every page? support · 2025-09-27T09:58:23+00:00 · medium severity · better search

WP Fast Total Search appears in profiling as loading on every page and slowing the site, though support asks for more detail.

Evidence: Plugin is included on every page (for what?) and it slows the page.
performance sitewide plugin loading search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Recurrent Warning in Error Log support · 2025-05-02T11:02:06+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Recurrent Warning in Error Log: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Recurrent Warning in Error Log Since I installed this plugin, I keep seeing a recurring warning in the PHP error log: AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Warning: Undefined array key “file” in / httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/fulltext-search/includes/wpfts_querylog.php on line 520; I’m running PHP version 8.4, WordPress 6.8.1, and the plugin is updated to the
bugs compatibility setup search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Works great! (5 stars) review · 2025-03-31T19:52:11+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Works great!: users show support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works great!
support migration easy reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Log files in wpfts_logs folder support · 2025-02-11T09:59:59+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Log files in wpfts_logs folder: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Log files in wpfts_logs folder Hello, We have been using Fast Total Search Plugin for a long time now.
bugs missing feature support easy search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise the best search algorithm (5 stars) review · 2025-01-26T10:37:42+00:00 · medium severity · better search

the best search algorithm: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: the best search algorithm Definitely the best search algorithm.
quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint woocommerce integration support · 2025-01-26T06:10:17+00:00 · medium severity · better search

woocommerce integration: users show compatibility, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: woocommerce integration Hello, I tested your plugin on 20 thousand products and I can say that they seem to be the fastest of all).
compatibility missing feature pricing performance search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Acceptance of Turkish translations support · 2024-12-17T10:14:56+00:00 · low severity · better search

Acceptance of Turkish translations: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Acceptance of Turkish translations hello friend, I have prepared and uploaded the translations for the Turkish language support of the plugin, I would be happy if you check and approve.
support translation search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Высокая нагрузка на MySQL support · 2024-11-12T13:17:24+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Высокая нагрузка на MySQL: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Вот такой sql: Sending data Select if(length(tt.algs_raw) > 0, tt.algs_raw, “0”) algs, inx.rules_idset, sum(if (((inx.force_rebuild = 0) and (inx.build_time != 0)) or (isnull(tt.ID)), 1, 0)) n_indexed, sum(if (inx.rules_idset = if(length(tt.algs_raw) > 0, tt.algs_raw, “0”), 1, 0)) n_actual, sum(if ((((inx.force_rebuild = 0) and (inx.build_time != 0)) or (isn
bugs compatibility performance support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Is the plugin compatible with the FiboSearch plugin? support · 2024-10-29T08:48:56+00:00 · low severity · better search

Is the plugin compatible with the FiboSearch plugin?: users show compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is the plugin compatible with the FiboSearch plugin?
compatibility performance easy search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Поиск в определенной рубрике записей support · 2024-09-26T14:01:10+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Поиск в определенной рубрике записей: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Код будет примерно такой (вы можете добавить этот код в начало функции functions.php вашей темы: add_action('pre_get_posts', function(&$wpq) { if ($wpq->is_search && $wpq->is_main_query()) { // Modify search query $wpq->set('cat', '4,5,6'); // Тут задаём нужные ID категорий } }); Этот подход плох тем, что вы навсегда ограничиваете поиск, пользователи просто
compatibility performance search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Just amazing!!. one of the best search. (5 stars) review · 2024-08-13T12:15:55+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Just amazing!!. one of the best search.: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: one of the best search.
quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Error with indexing after upgrade support · 2024-08-07T15:38:58+00:00 · high severity · better search

Error with indexing after upgrade: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error with indexing after upgrade We are PRO users and have paid for several years out for support.
bugs compatibility pricing support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Не работает Логика поиска по-умолчанию AND support · 2024-08-05T05:12:52+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Не работает Логика поиска по-умолчанию AND: users show compatibility, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: v1.73.245 [ { "where": " AND ( \n ( wp_postmeta.meta_key = '_elementor_template_type' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = 'floating-buttons' )\n) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'e-floating-buttons' AND ((wp_posts.post_status <> 'trash' AND wp_posts.post_status <> 'auto-draft'))", "groupby": "wp_posts.ID", "join": " INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.po
compatibility pricing support value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor better search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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mixed Updating Pro version of plugin to latest version and enabling auto-updates support · 2024-07-19T04:12:54+00:00 · low severity · better search

Updating Pro version of plugin to latest version and enabling auto-updates: users show pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Updating Pro version of plugin to latest version and enabling auto-updates I recently purchased the Pro version of this plugin (WordPress Fulltext Search Pro) with a two year license.
pricing support reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Big Database File support · 2024-07-18T08:35:41+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Big Database File: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Big Database File I have this file created by the plugin “wpftsi_qlog.ibd” that is 40GB is size the problem is that is getting bigger and bigger and soon i will run out of space on my vps.
bugs performance missing feature setup search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint WordPress database error Duplicate entry support · 2024-07-04T15:56:19+00:00 · high severity · better search

WordPress database error Duplicate entry: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WordPress database error Duplicate entry Hi, I was looking at my PHP error.log file and noticed quite a few entries like these: [04-Jul-2024 12:34:47 UTC] WordPress database error Duplicate entry '1022765-wp_posts' for key 'tid_tsrc_unique' for query insert into wpftsi_index ( tid , tsrc , tdt , build_time , update_dt , force_rebuild , locked_dt ) values ("1
security bugs compatibility performance search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Sort results per type support · 2024-06-19T14:14:26+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Sort results per type: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: (ive pro version, but cant localise where is your support on your website and even on my account page….
compatibility missing feature support reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor better search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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