Changelog

4.9.4

• wp_get_attachment_image_url instead of the wp_get_attachment_url is used for custom field images so the size argument is applied to them
• Fixed the issues with the new widgets screen, the styling should now correctly appear
• Polylang issue fixes – now the results page should respect when the polylang compatibility is turned off
• Keyword suggestions now working correctly
• Polylang – better compatibility when the site language is selected
• Fixed an issue with the script registration process

4.9.3

• Fixed: image parser now works correctly, when the result descriptions are turned off
• Improved: the plugin script now tries to detect possible loading conflicts or timing issues and tries to resolve them

4.9.2

• Fixed: Pagination on results page missing
• Fixed: Some strings on the back-end incorrect
• Fixed: Divi visual builder not working

4.9.1

• Fixed: Category exclusions sometimes caused missing results

4.9

• Added: Keyword highlighting and scrolling on the single results page
• Added: JS hooks
• Added: Options to change theme colors, result background, results box background, title fonts, description and other fonts
• Added: Ordering – by menu order and by custom field added
• Added: advanced title and content fields
• Added: description context option
• Added: exact match location option
• Added: image options -> background cover
• Added: Advanced Options -> Keyword exceptions tab
• Added: image options -> image filename exclusions
• Changed: Updated the engine and the API from the Pro version
• Changed: jquery.gestures.js removed – not needed anymore
• Compatibility checked against WP 5.7
• Fixed: Posts per page option – changed to “auto” by default, parses the wordpress value if not set
• Fixed: Results keyword highlighter now supports accented/non-accented keywords
• Fixed: Context finder function – fixed an issue when the minimum word length is below the first phrase word lenght, the function returned the incorrect (long) string
• Fixed: Context finder function – now accented and non-accented variations will also work
• Fixed: Russian quotation marks for exact matches are now recognized: «»
• Fixed: wp_localize_script – some uses of that function replaced with an internal solution, to prevent cache plugin incompatibilities
• Fixed: Known possible jQuery.migrate deprecation warnings

4.8.6

• Added: get_asl_result_field and the_get_asl_result_field functions
• Reset/Wipe options now work correctly
• Issue on multisite results pages
• Fixed missing script files from previous commit

4.8.5

• Option to exclude Password protected posts
• Exact matching – Full exact matching added (mathing a field exactly, from start to the end)
• asl_load_css, asl_load_js and asl_load_css_js hooks – when returns true, the JS, CSS or both are stopped from loading
• WP 5.6 compatible
• Image parsing on multisite – now automatically tries to fetch the images from across blogs on the results page

4.8.4

• Option to exclude WooCommerce hidden catalog products
• Fixed issues with the singleton class structures: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-requests-177/#post-13145770
• Detection the search within dynamically loaded elements – like Elementor pop-ups and similar.
• Removes [embed] shortcodes and embed Gutenberg blocks from the content

4.8.3

• Better escaping method
• Possible security issue fixed

4.8.2

• Reworked Google Analytics integration – supporting Events tracking and both Universal and Gtag integration methods

4.8.1

• Image parser – now the number of image to get from the content can be defined. The parser will check for alternative image attributes as well
• Scrollbar script switched to simplebar
• Results box now supports multiple, adjustable number of columns
• Width options – now adjustable for desktop/mobile/tablet versions
• Multiple jQuery version detection
• WordPress 5.4 compatibility tested
• Some language strings corrected

4.8

• Basic RTL layout support
• Duplication check – the script now detects and tries to fix duplicate output (ex. menus cloning the search bar) and fixing it’s functionality automatically
• Removed some old MS CSS filters (alpha opacity)

4.7.26

• Date format now follows the WP date format
• Analytics is now correctly triggered only when the search is finished
• Results page results are no longer limited to a maximum of 500
• Polylang translated WooCommerce product variations are now display correctly in the correct language
• New option: Results count per page (General->Behavior), to adjust the results count per page

4.7.25

• Fixed an issue with the content image parser, that was introduced in the previous release by accident

4.7.24

• Image parser – now correctly parsing images from post excerpt and contents, even if these fields are not in use

4.7.23

• Exclude posts – input validation (to prevent extra commas at the end)
• Image parser – now correctly gets the first image from post contents/excerpts, instead of the second

4.7.22

• Fixed a rapid return key trigger prevention method

4.7.21

• Added: Search By post/cpt ID
• Added: Searching other post statuses is now possible
• Fix: More robust https detection, as in some cases incorrectly configured site URLs resulted in wrong protocol urls
• Fix: ‘Redirect to first result’ feature now correctly redirects on both cases

4.7.20

• Custom CSS box
• Pro and Lite version differences list
• Analytics tracker fix
• Protocolless resource URLs replaced with protocoled version for better compatibility

4.7.19

• Added OR and AND logic with exact word matches + notice about word boundaries for clarification
• Added a notice for the back-end, when choosing the Post override method, that the plugin may use Cookies to store the pagination and the filter states (functional cookies only)
• Better stripping of CSS and script contents
• Back-end override no longer triggers, when the Post method is enabled
• Analytics tracker – support of 3rd party plugins and the __gaTracker function
• domDocument and multibyte functions check before use

4.7.18

• Fix – Minification issue causing a scrollbar malfunction fixed

4.7.17

• Change – Main LIKE query re-worked: better cross-field (title, content etc..) matching, better relevance calculation and faster execution
• Change – Words within double quotes will now be matched exactly (in order), and can be combined with other keywords. For example, entering phrase – “nobel prize” 2018 – will use keywords: “nobel prize” and “2018”
• Change – The default keyword logic set to AND
• Fix – Remaining form title labels moved to aria-label attributes
• Fix – Other minor code bugfixes

4.7.16

• Input font now can be changed
• Additional theme options: search box background color, icon colors, icon background colors and border
• Theme Chooser option moved to Layout Options -> Search box layout panel
• Theme Chooser option now displays a static preview of the original themes
• WCAG improvements: some title labels replaced with aria-labels instead
• Some redundant options removed from the front-end script, fixing apostrophe related issues

4.7.15

• New Option: to exclude out-of-stock WooCommerce results
• New option: Exact match location – Starting with, Anywhere, Ending with
• Post type option re-worked for a better layout, merged with the ‘Search in posts’ and ‘Search in pages’ options
• By default, the front-end filters are disabled now
• FixURL function now only accepts 2 parameters, for better compabitlity
• jQuery 3+ compatibility
• ‘create_function’ notice fixed on widget creation (PHP 7 support)

4.7.14

• Post type and Content type CSS classes to results output + new filter: asl_result_css_class
• The close icon now displays on more occasions
• .label and .option deprecated classes removed (announced in 4.7.12)
• $post().fail(…) handler. Outputs errors to the results box if any.
• The result max height option default value changed to the correct ‘none’ from ‘auto’

4.7.13

• Redirection location now can be set to a new tab as well
• Max-height attribute to results container (default: auto)
• The magnifier and return redirection/action options have been merged
• The main search input trigger method changed from ‘keyup’ to ‘input’ event
• The main query now properly gets cancelled when the override query is executed.
• Fixed container detection – The results and settings container no longer ‘jumps’ when the search bar is placed in a fixed container.

4.7.12

• Results templating is available now as in the pro version
• The plugin can remember the last keyword when hitting the browser back button (enable under the Compatibility settings menu)
• .option and .label CSS classes deprecated, replaced by asl_option_inner and .asl_option_label classes (location: front-end drop-down settings)
• Visibility exclusion for older WooCommerce versions (with post meta solution)
• Result keyword highlighter now support unicode character sets on exact word matching

4.7.11

• WPML compatibility fix, where links sometimes pointed to incorrect location
• asl_print_search_query filter added to the search input text on the results page
• Minification of all front-end CSS files, ~35% space saved
• New CSS classes: asl_w, asl_m, asl_s, asl_r (global class, main box class, settings box class, results box class)

4.7.10

• Category exclusions issue fixed, where excluded categories caused whole, not affected post types to get excluded
• ACF image field gets parsed correctly when image custom field is selected as image source
• Some more acessibility fixes

4.7.9

• Added an option to open results in a new tab
• Added accessibility switch for back-end configuration
• Web accessibility fixes in HTML layout (forms, inputs, labels etc..)
• Mobile checkbox trigger fix
• Translation fix for ‘No results’ text

4.7.8

• Compatibility settings: Fallback option for old IE (<=8) browsers
• Compatibility settings: Option to disable loading google fonts
• Assets are now loaded protocolless
• :before and :after elements within the form are now forced to invisible (compatibility)
• String translation function now supports qTranslatex

4.7.7

• Checkbox labels are now clickable
• Input focus and results opening now works if there is no search phrase entered
• Back-end menu links were changed to a nicer URL
• Context find bugfix – where with empty phrase the search might return the full text
• Fixed a bug with WPML where product variations were displayed in incorrect language
• Fixed 3 WooCommerce related error messages
• IOS devices will no longer zoom unexpectedly
• Function keys [F1-F12] will not trigger the search anymore
• PHP Compatibility checker false positive fix: __sleep(), __clone() and __wakeup() magic method overrides removed

4.7.6

• Nicer URLs on redirection in some cases
• Typo fixes in CSS files
• WooCommerce: Product variation title repetition fix
• WooCommerce: Product variations now respect the parent product status
• WooCommerce: Hidden products now can be excluded (enabled by default)
• Added an exception filter to allow stop plugin loading completely: asl_stop_loading filter
• Content image parser – now converts the content to UTF8 first

4.7.5

• A category filtering bug fixed
• Better compatibility with ACF

4.7.4

• Clicking on the input or on empty character input the plugin will open the latest successful result list
• Empty space bar trigger fix
• Mobile submit issue fix
• Phrases matching the start of titles have a much greater relevance now
• Moved the search placeholder text option to the correct tab on the back-end

4.7.3

• Better context finder
• Custom field options updated to ajax, to prevent issues
• Results page orderby and order query variables respect
• WooCommerce results page price filter and ordering respect
• Mobile device related fixes
• Ajax page loading related fixes
• Custom field based filtering optimizations

4.7.2

• Featured image source size is adjustable
• Shortcode now functions as menu item
• WooCommerce catalog visibility is now respected
• Mobile bugfix: double tap issue
• WPML translation issue fix

4.7.1

• Default character count to trigger set to 0
• Node.js and Require.js module loading disabled, as not neccessary.
• Curvy themes, background is white, changed to transparent

4.7.0

• FROM action tag removed
• qtranslateX comppatibility functions
• Override bugfix, where it was enabled even if disabled
• asl_results execution fix, where it was executed two times, instead of one
• more results link override fix, where it redirected only, without override
• New redirection options for Magnifier and Enter events
• Custom redirection URI scheme option
• Polylang string translations support
• asl_custom_fonts filter to access font inclusions
• asl_layout_in_form action to access form
• GET method is now the default for override
• Session is removed, using COOKIES instead, yumm
• asl_active query variable removed for POST requests

4.6.6

• Scroll script is now possible to turn off
• Better scroll script compatibility and namespace
• Polylang compatibility implemented
• Image width and height issue solved
• Permalinkg name search implemented
• Fixed an issue with string encodings

4.6.5

• Category exclusions for objects without assigned terms fix
• WooCommerce form override is now possible (if supported)
• Additional init method for redundancy (window.load)
• Init data moved to div attributes instead of content
• Scrollbar updated to latest version
• Font import removed, using wp_enqueue_style() instead

4.6.4

• Keyword logic option added (OR, AND)
• Checkbox layout changed to flex
• Allow search in all custom fields option
• Settings no longer hide when search is triggered

4.6.3

• Session related fixes and optimizations
• Bakc-end script fixes

4.6.2

• Keyword highlighting implemented
• IE11 back-end fixes
• Removed unused and deprecated files
• W3C style validation related fix

4.6.1

• Mobile close button fix
• Mobile keyboard behavior fix
• QtranslateX compatibility fix
• Initialization fix
• Better back-end script loading
• Debug information fixed

4.6.0

• Core reworked to a much better structure
• Visual Composer bugfix
• Better shortcode stripping algo
• More performant context finder
• imagecache.class.php file removal
• Animations have been replaced with CSS3 animations
• Primary and Secondary ordering implemented
• Placeholder WPML string translation ready
• Private custom fields are displayed on the back-end now
• Option saving returns to the parent tab
• Search box and results override
• Ajax detection initializer
• Javascript sources & initialization switch
• Width and Margin option
• Results position and width fix for low bar widths

4.5.5

• New menu: Compatibility Options
• Compatibility allowing to force case sensitive, insensitive, UTF8 and UNICODE queries
• Excerpt search fixed
• CSS fixes, including a placeholder fix
• A new escaping method, supporting more characters

4.5.4

• Autocomplete and Keyword suggestions introduced
• Keyboard navigation fixes
• 3 new curvy styles
• Animation and navigation fixes

4.5.1

• Scripts are moved to the footer by default
• Inline scripts removed, using JS files for initialization
• Description context option introduced
• A CSS fix for title display
• An image parsing fix

4.5

• New menus: Performance Options and Support
• JSON responses transformed into HTML
• Input focusing after clicking on close button
• Added an option to control the facet change event
• Custom Ajax Handler implemented
• Image cropping disabled, added an option to control it
• Debug data gathering for more effective support
• Some scrolling issues fixes
• A category and term related bug fixed

4.0

• Major Query optimizations
• Scrolling calculation and experience fixes
• CSS fixes for older IE browsers
• Input elements changed to flex layout
• Bugs fixed where input would resize to 0 pixels
• Term exclusion is now possible by ID
• Mobile search and type fix
• WooCommerce product variation Title and URL fixes

3.11

• WPML compatibility fix
• A possible security issue fix

3.1

• Updated engine with full UTF8 charset support
• Languages like chinese, persian are now searchable
• Language files added

3.06

• Fixed long label names in frontend settings dropdown
• Title and description substrings at word endings
• Removed an unneccessary CSS rule
• Fixed a bug with custom post type names

3.05

• Hotfix for disabled categories

3.0

• Fully reworked from version 1.7
• Added 30+ more options & much nicer options panel
• Brand new themes: Simple, Classic and Underline
• Google analytics integration
• Now possible to search custom post types
• Possible to search custom fields and excerpts
• Possible to exclude categories and posts by ID-s
• Possible to change image sources and set a default image
• Possible to add custom field and category selectors to the frontend

1.7

• Reworked the admin section
• New template: metro blue

1.6

• Removed an unnecessary link

1.5

• Stripping shortcodes from results content

1.4

• Security fix

1.3

• 2 brand new themes!
• Very stable custom built javascript
• Stabilised frontend and backend
• All compatibility issues fixed

1.2

• Search widget added
• Multisite fix

1.1

• Disappear bugfix
• WordPress 3.5 compatible