Title: CloudSearch Author: Andrea Landonio Published: Febrer 14, 2016 Last modified: Gener 27, 2023 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/cloud-search/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=1462075) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/cloud-search/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1350439) # CloudSearch By [Andrea Landonio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lando1982/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cloud-search.3.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/cloud-search/#description) * [Reviews](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/cloud-search/#reviews) * [Installation](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/cloud-search/#installation) * [Development](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/cloud-search/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cloud-search/) ## Description CloudSearch is a flexible plugin that allows you to leverage the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch in your WordPress site. To use this plugin you’ll need an Amazon Web Services account. Attention: Amazon CloudSearch is a paid service and will require a credit card. Before you can start using CloudSearch, the plugin needs to be activated and configured. Activate the plugin, then go to the menu “CloudSearch -> Settings” (you can find this menu in the sidebar of your WordPress admin panel). Fill the form data: * Enter Amazon access key ID, Amazon secret access key and Amazon region for your account (look for “Security Credentials” in your Amazon console to retrieve these data) * Enter your CloudSearch index search endpoint and the domain name (I suggest to create the CloudSearch index before you start the plugin configuration) * Schema settings * Other settings IMPORTANT NOTES WITH RELEASE 2.0.0: * At least WordPress 4.4 version mandatory ( for WP_Term support) * Changed APIs output from an array of IDs to an array of object composed by the entity ID and the entity type Minimum requirements: * WordPress Version 4.4 * PHP Version 5.3 * Amazon Web Services account with CloudSearch enabled #### Usage 1. Go to `CloudSearch -> Settings` 2. Enter your `Amazon access key ID`, `Secret access key` and the `Amazon region` where you have created the CloudSearch index 3. Enter a `Search endpoint` and the `Domain name`. Get these info in your CloudSearch dashboard in AWS Console 4. Choose post types, custom fields and custom taxonomies that you want to export to the CloudSearch index 5. Set up other settings or leave defaults 6. Save settings. 7. Go to `CloudSearch -> Manage` 8. Click the action `Create index`, `Run indexing` and `Sync all documents`. Between every action wait until the `Status` field is `Active`, then go on with the next task 9. After these operation your index is ready, now you can search documents in your CloudSearch index Links: [Author’s Site](http://www.andrealandonio.it) ## Screenshots * [[ * Settings page * [[ * Manage page * [[ * Front page * [[ * Other settings (results and highlighting) * [[ * Other settings (suggestions) ## Installation 1. Unzip the downloaded `cloud-search` zip file 2. Upload the `cloud-search` folder and its contents into the `wp-content/plugins/` directory of your WordPress installation 3. Activate `cloud-search` from Plugins page ## FAQ ### How much does the plugin cost? There is no charge for the plugin. The only charges you incur are for usage of Amazon CloudSearch. ### Works on multisite? Yes, for every site you have a specific configuration but you cannot search documents between different sites with defaults configuration. You need to customize search scripts. ### Does the plugin support multi languages? The plugin does not work with other languages plugins. However, there is a alternative and simple way to work with other languages. An explanation could be found in the plugin help page. ### Which post types and fields are indexed by default? How do I modify indexed schema? By default, only posts and standard fields are indexed. To modify this, in the admin“ Setting” section you can add other post types, fields and taxonomies (also custom objects). ### Supports facets? Yes, you can use API for retrieve facet information. ### Supports field weightings? Yes, you can add a weight to some fields to boost up the relevance of the results. ### Supports for WooCommerce product tags and EDD tags? Yes, you can manage WooCommerce product tags and EDD tags simply adding a little code in a custom plugin or in the functions.php of your theme. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/55ea05042fed0a5ccd26dc165a7733231224edbdc65127fc7b0e6feb8f013772? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works well & great support!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-well-great-support-22/)󠁿 [meg114187](https://profiles.wordpress.org/meg114187/) Març 13, 2018 This plugin works really well and makes integrating Amazon CloudSearch with your Wordpress site totally seamless. The documentation is comprehensive and helpful. The support threads have lots of useful information, as well. Andrea (the developer of this plugin) is very responsive to questions and even helped me fix an issue with my search results page with Divi. All around A+++ and highly recommend! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0eca0107f7eef0e98bf6be22ef5ac7adc8e3729e54a5ba2b264fa5ddbfa7cd41? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Huge time saver and responsive developer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-time-saver-and-responsive-developer/)󠁿 [methnen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/methnen/) Febrer 26, 2018 This plugin works great and saved me a huge amount of time. The developer is also responsive and was quick to make improvements when I discovered an issue with the implementation. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ca8f3c97e16371f1d63fe0cedc035374d11240627d865ae5f508aa559eebb04? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very comprehensive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-comprehensive-13/)󠁿 [jwills316](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwills316/) Abril 12, 2017 I had it up and running in under an hour. The feature set is very comprehensive and well thought out. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81604bc8917eef05719b8ba7dafcc600d2d2eb2cc1185eb7e7b31de98021db4c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[The best Search plugin for Amazon Cloudsearch](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-best-search-plugin-for-amazon-cloudsearch/)󠁿 [Erik Molenaar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/erikmolenaar/) Gener 29, 2017 If you use Wordpress and are hosted on Amazon and need the best search functionality there is, look no further than this plugin. It rocks. I have tried it all, the internal Wordpress search (which is a joke for a serious blog), Relevanssi (great but still uses a lot of resources) and ended up with this plugin. It is easy to configure and uses the power of Amazon to present quick search results to the visitor. Keep on rockin’ Andrea. And thanks for implementing our ideas/requests for search suggestions and your quick replies on our questions. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/80998dbdb03d97d6257f3cb479828b9281e2cdbf37d139ba0df5a8d8016e653e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-10806/)󠁿 [Hasel29](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hasel29/) Setembre 3, 2016 great plugin thanks to the author [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cloud-search/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “CloudSearch” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Andrea Landonio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lando1982/) * [ sburdett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sburdett/) * [ methnen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/methnen/) * [ bheadrick ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bheadrick/) [Translate “CloudSearch” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/cloud-search) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cloud-search/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/cloud-search/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cloud-search/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cloud-search/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 3.0.0 – 2023-01-27 * Added support to AWS SDK version 3 #### 2.12.0 – 2021-10-26 * Added AWS session token management #### 2.11.1 – 2021-06-25 * Added permission_callback in register_rest_route #### 2.11.0 – 2021-06-21 * Added acs_search_args filter hook #### 2.10.2 – 2021-03-14 * Tested up with WordPress 5.7 release #### 2.10.1 – 2020-12-09 * Tested up to latest WordPress releases #### 2.10.0 – 2020-10-23 * Added AMP management in API results #### 2.9.4 – 2020-08-17 * Removed path from loading image #### 2.9.3 – 2020-04-24 * Removed undefined index warnings #### 2.9.2 – 2020-04-23 * Fixed query_filter error introduced in 2.9.1 #### 2.9.1 – 2020-04-21 * Move “acs_add_filter_query_conditions” filter hook apply position to a “larger” one #### 2.9.0 – 2020-04-16 * Added “acs_add_filter_query_conditions” filter hook #### 2.8.6 – 2020-03-14 * Updated “jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.js” path in the enqueue scripts function #### 2.8.5 – 2020-03-10 * Changed no results found JS response #### 2.8.4 – 2020-01-25 * Changed wrong checkbox form read method #### 2.8.3 – 2020-01-17 * Simplified “acs_check_user_capabilities” method by checking only “activate_plugins” capability #### 2.8.1 – 2020-01-05 * Added support for Date types * Fixed undefined index for TextOptions #### 2.8.0 – 2019-12-27 * Added REST API route for suggestion service #### 2.7.0 – 2019-11-22 * Manage settings for adding a filter post type for “legacy” items #### 2.6.1 – 2019-11-17 * Added support for twentytwenty theme #### 2.6.0 – 2019-10-17 * Fixed bug with sync all documents and acs_exclude filter #### 2.5.2 – 2019-10-08 * Changed “filter_query” clauses from exclusive to inclusive #### 2.5.1 – 2019-03-05 * Added “acs_post_transition_allowed_statuses” filter hook #### 2.5.0 – 2019-02-28 * Removal of the dependency on the Amazon Web Services plugin * Fixed PHP strict issues on code #### 2.4.0 – 2018-11-07 * Added “post_content_original” field in search actions * Added “Import / Export” settings page #### 2.3.0 – 2018-10-15 * Added sortable custom field support * Extend default sort fields with sortable custom fields #### 2.2.0 – 2018-10-01 * Added invalid chars remove feature before docs syncing #### 2.1.0 – 2018-09-28 * Fixed delete documents action * Added usage of WordPress language instead the default ACS::ANALYSIS_SCHEMA constant #### 2.0.0 – 2018-09-20 * Added term support to sync and search also terms on CloudSearch index (need WP_Term support, available from WordPress 4.4) #### 1.8.0 – 2018-05-23 * Added custom search page CSS on admin settings section * Manage ‘the_posts’ filter * Removed ‘_score’ field from update documents operation #### 1.7.0 – 2018-05-17 * Added stop sync/delete button on admin manage section #### 1.6.7 – 2018-05-11 * Fixed warning/notice on ‘acs_plugin_disable_search_wp_query’ * Added ‘Filters’ section on documentation page #### 1.6.6 – 2018-04-20 * Added definition of search endpoint and domain name in wp-config.php file #### 1.6.5 – 2018-04-20 * Added custom field option in results settings #### 1.6.4 – 2018-04-17 * Added search template override management #### 1.6.3 – 2018-04-13 * Strip shortcodes on post content/excerpt #### 1.6.2 – 2018-03-29 * Added client options configuration #### 1.6.1 – 2018-03-16 * Fixed site/blog ID management on multisite #### 1.6.0 – 2018-02-26 * Added field weightings management * Removed unwanted WordPress default search page automatic query #### 1.5.2 – 2017-10-04 * Fixed search query bugs #### 1.5.1 – 2017-08-29 * Fixed minor notices #### 1.5.0 – 2017-07-11 * Added update documents action on admin manage section #### 1.4.2 – 2017-05-12 * Fixed bad connection test behavior #### 1.4.1 – 2017-04-20 * Added private fields selection support #### 1.4.0 – 2017-04-20 * Added facet support #### 1.3.3 – 2017-04-12 * Added hide menu sections functionality #### 1.3.2 – 2017-04-03 * Added exclude pages/posts support, removed notices, moved Amazon access keys in wp-config.php #### 1.3.1 – 2017-03-14 * Added screen readers support #### 1.3.0 – 2017-02-20 * Added sort on multiple fields functionality #### 1.2.6 – 2017-02-08 * Added site/blog info override functionality #### 1.2.5 – 2017-02-05 * Removed auto-focus from suggest jquery * Fixed bad search query creation * Added addcslashes for text highlighting * Added preserve text functionality on search index documents method #### 1.2.4 – 2017-01-28 * Reviewed auto suggest introducing search titles filter #### 1.2.3 – 2017-01-01 * Added theme “Twenty Seventeen” support #### 1.2.2 – 2016-11-15 * Added “Multiple Post Thumbnails” plugin support #### 1.2.1 – 2016-11-08 * Added IAM connection #### 1.2.0 – 2016-11-01 * Added auto suggest on search field #### 1.1.1 – 2016-10-10 * Fixed invalid UTF-8 chars validation errors #### 1.1.0 – 2016-10-09 * Added Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region * Added text length selection on result snippet * Added highlights on result snippet * Added “extras” field management in services #### 1.0.3 – 2016-07-26 * Added fields manipulation #### 1.0.2 – 2016-05-31 * Fixed “post_author_name” empty field error #### 1.0.1 – 2016-02-26 * Fixed “post_author_name” field get method #### 1.0.0 – 2016-02-14 * First release ## Meta * Version **3.0.0** * Last updated **3 anys ago** * Active installations **80+** * WordPress version ** 4.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.9.13** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloud-search/) * Tags * [amazon](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/amazon/)[aws](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/aws/) 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