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swiftype-search

Swiftype Site Search Plugin for WordPress

Fast, intelligent, and fully customizable search for your site.

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complaint review · high severity · relevance 1.0
Breaks pagination of search results

Breaks pagination of search results: users show bugs, missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Breaks pagination of search results I really like some of the features of this plugin (mostly the dropdown of suggested pages while typing in the search box), but the fact that it pretty much makes it impossible to use pagination in search results makes it a deal-breaker.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97
Fatal error when running in wp-cli

Fatal error when running in wp-cli: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Fatal error when running in wp-cli When running any wp-cli command while this plugin is active, get a fatal error: [15-Jul-2020 22:14:00 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Swiftype\SiteSearch\Wordpress\Search\Theme' not found in /app/public_html/custom-content/plugins/swiftype-search/swiftype-theme-functions.php:3 Stack trace: #0 /app/public_html/c
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
Conflict with Easy Digital Downloads Plugin

Conflict with Easy Digital Downloads Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Conflict with Easy Digital Downloads Plugin I was having some 500 Errors with Easy Digital Downloads, especially when changing the status of an order, and when I turned the WP_DEBUG, I’ve see the following error when trying to update a payment in EDD: Fatal error: Call to a member function delete_document() on null in /home/wpzoom/public_html/wp-content/plug
mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.92
not free, min $19/month

not free, min $19/month: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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not free, min $19/month not free, $19/month https://swiftype.com/settings/plan not free, $19/month https://swiftype.com/settings/plan The plugin is free.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
License Situation (in theme or other plugin)

License Situation (in theme or other plugin): users show compatibility, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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License Situation (in theme or other plugin) Hello First thanks a lot for this great plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Having trouble with Search Results page. Can't get correct results to display!

Having trouble with Search Results page. Can't get correct results to display!: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Can anyone help me with a code snippet and example of how the search.php template should be coded to display the correct results?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Indexing based on the database, not the site front end?

Indexing based on the database, not the site front end?: users show performance, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Indexing based on the database, not the site front end?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
categories and speed of custom post type search

categories and speed of custom post type search: users show performance, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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categories and speed of custom post type search hello my site its http://www.buscadordempleos.com/trabajos a-i would like to know, is it possible to use this plugin for custom post types?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Custom Taxonomy indexing

Custom Taxonomy indexing: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Unfortunately, the code offered here only works for standard categories, not custom taxonomies.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.79
renderFunction not working

renderFunction not working: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
In my functions.php i have the following code: function swiftype_javascript_config() { ?> <script type="text/javascript"> var customRenderFunction = function(document_type, item) { return '<p class="title">test' + item['title'] + 'test</p>'; }; var swiftypeConfig = { renderFunction: customRenderFunction }; </script> <?php } add_action('wp_head', 'swiftype_ja

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
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
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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
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
WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search praise owner · intel 64.2 · weakness 47.4
praise owner
15 collected complaint signal(s) bugs performance 2 source links Proof Blocked 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
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
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
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
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes

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Collected Signals

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neutral Live Search Working on Firefox only for Logged in Users support · 2025-07-06T16:50:21+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Live Search Working on Firefox only for Logged in Users: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] If I’m not logged in the Admin backend, then Live Search is Not Working on Fedora.
bugs support cache search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
question Why scheduled posts are not being synchronised? support · 2023-02-13T11:38:50+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Why scheduled posts are not being synchronised?: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Why scheduled posts are not being synchronised? Is there any way to sync the scheduled posts? The normal manual-publish posts sync is working fine but on my site, 90% of posts are scheduled and those all are not being indexed to swift type search engine. Please guide me if I can accomplish this using a hook or something. Thanks Is there any way to sync the s
search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Uh, not free! Does not belong in the WP repository (1 star) review · 2021-03-10T17:43:46+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Uh, not free! Does not belong in the WP repository: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Uh, not free!
value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Good search abilities. Poor integration (5 stars) review · 2020-11-13T12:02:31+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Good search abilities. Poor integration: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Poor integration The plugin does not integrate well with the customization options the dashboard offers.
missing feature support dashboard search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Fatal error when running in wp-cli support · 2020-07-15T22:16:53+00:00 · high severity · better search

Fatal error when running in wp-cli: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fatal error when running in wp-cli When running any wp-cli command while this plugin is active, get a fatal error: [15-Jul-2020 22:14:00 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Swiftype\SiteSearch\Wordpress\Search\Theme' not found in /app/public_html/custom-content/plugins/swiftype-search/swiftype-theme-functions.php:3 Stack trace: #0 /app/public_html/c
bugs compatibility missing feature support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Information about features of the plugin support · 2020-02-17T03:17:26+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Information about features of the plugin: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Information about features of the plugin Hi, I am looking for a solution which allows me to: EITHER: 1A) – Search in Post Types by searching Taxonomy Terms associated (i.e.
missing feature form search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Shortcode to insert Engine in the middle of a page? support · 2019-11-07T23:35:37+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Shortcode to insert Engine in the middle of a page?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Thanks, Virginia The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi – Is there a shortcode or other way to place the search text box in the body of a page?
support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint wordpress multisite network support · 2019-07-03T11:37:07+00:00 · medium severity · better search

wordpress multisite network: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Your Plugin is supported with WordPress multisite network.
support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint How to remove swiftype Pagination support · 2018-12-05T02:24:49+00:00 · medium severity · better search

How to remove swiftype Pagination: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: How to remove swiftype Pagination Is there a way to remove swiftype pagination on the result The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Is there a way to remove swiftype pagination on the result The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link]
support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Costly, doesn’t search pages (1 star) review · 2018-05-27T18:06:10+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Costly, doesn’t search pages: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: SECOND WEAKNESS: Swiftype is NOT FREE.
value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Conflict with Easy Digital Downloads Plugin support · 2018-05-20T11:49:43+00:00 · high severity · better search

Conflict with Easy Digital Downloads Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Conflict with Easy Digital Downloads Plugin I was having some 500 Errors with Easy Digital Downloads, especially when changing the status of an order, and when I turned the WP_DEBUG, I’ve see the following error when trying to update a payment in EDD: Fatal error: Call to a member function delete_document() on null in /home/wpzoom/public_html/wp-content/plug
bugs compatibility easy payment search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral Expanded display? support · 2017-11-10T17:58:18+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Expanded display?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Expanded display? I’m looking for a search plugin that will expand to show the search box when a user clicks on the magnifying icon. Otherwise the user just sees the magnifying icon… does that make sense? If your plugin doesn’t offer this functionality, do you have any recommendations? Thank you so much! Shelly I’m looking for a search plugin that will expan
search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
question two separate search box support · 2017-05-09T06:05:20+00:00 · medium severity · better search

two separate search box: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: two separate search box Hello, i want to make two separate search box for two type of products where those types are meta data. is this possible using Swiftype Search even it will cost some feed. please replay to me as soon as you read this message. thank you. Hello, i want to make two separate search box for two type of products where those types are meta d
search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Ужасный плагин ! (1 star) review · 2017-01-15T16:57:19+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Ужасный плагин !: complaint conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Доброго времени суток, тестировал для своего сайта плагины для поиска, этот плагин сразу запросил API, зарегистрировался без проблем, только как оказалось этот плагин бесплатный на 14 дней, дальше нужно приобретать его, самый дешевый вариант 299 доларов, однако зачем мне приобретать на сайт визитку где посещаемость в месяц 20 человек ?
api search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Not recommended (2 stars) review · 2016-09-29T10:44:09+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Not recommended: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Cheaper (or even fully functional and free) and better options Not recommended.
missing feature value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Swiftype plugin comparison (Swiftype Search vs WordPress plugin by Swiftype) support · 2016-06-07T17:37:58+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Swiftype plugin comparison (Swiftype Search vs WordPress plugin by Swiftype): users show missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Swiftype plugin comparison (Swiftype Search vs WordPress plugin by Swiftype) Hello, I would like to add Swiftype search to my site.
missing feature pricing value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral Add Categories in Search support · 2016-01-27T15:47:19+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Add Categories in Search: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Add Categories in Search How can we add categories to show in search field as an autocomplete record. https://wordpress.org/plugins/swiftype-search/ How can we add categories to show in search field as an autocomplete record. https://wordpress.org/plugins/swiftype-search/
search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Routing Error. The path you have requested is invalid support · 2016-01-26T22:16:42+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Routing Error. The path you have requested is invalid: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Routing Error.
bugs search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Too expensive (2 stars) review · 2016-01-14T11:21:52+00:00 · medium severity · better search

Too expensive: users show pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Too expensive I’m sure Swiftype is a good service but I think it’s overpriced.
pricing search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed shortcodes showing in results support · 2015-12-01T08:33:44+00:00 · low severity · better search

shortcodes showing in results: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But when I go to the swiftype dashboard and check pages that show shortcodes in search results, they don’t appear there?
support quality dashboard search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes