Version 3.0.0 Beta 2

• Features:

  • New classes Better_Search_Query and Better_Search. The latter is a wrapper for WP_Query and brings all the power of WP_Query to Better Search. The former is the core class that filters the required functions as well as replaces the older seamless mode implementation
  • New settings to search taxonomies, comments, excerpt, meta, authors and comments. These will all return the posts corresponding where the search term is found in the above fields
  • New parameter bydate if set to true will sort posts by date
  • Advanced Search form now displays the select dropdown of post types that allows to search a specific post type
  • Highlight search terms on pages referred from the search results page

• Enhancements/modifications:

  • hellip wrapped in bsearch_hellip span tag for easy access
  • Transients will be deleted when the plugin is removed

• Bug fixes:

  • Resetting settings caused issues for the default styles and color fields
  • Uninstalling didn't delete the option key from database.

• Deprecated:

  • PHP 5.x support has been dropped and attempting to install the plugin on these installs will throw errors!
  • Multitude of functions have been deprecated. Check the deprecated.php file for the full list. Deprecated functions will also throw up a warning
  • Aggressive Search mode has been removed