Sphinx Search Plugin works great on my sites, and the commercial support is high-quality and fast-delivery. Thanks to Mindaugas and Ivinco team. Thank you very much.

Hello,
an interesting plugin but there is no way to get the featured images in the search page results ?

Hello Li-An,
There is no such feature. If you need such feature – we provide commercial support service and we could change our plans to help you faster.

Thank you for quick answer. But as my blogs are not commercial, I have no money for such things 🙂

Can your search plugin block certain (not all) searches? IE, one post or page only, versus ALL posts, ALL pages?

Thanks
Al Guevara

Can your search plugin EXCLUDE a single post or page?

Thanks.

Sorry for the double post…. I was taken to an error page saying I didnt fill out the COMMENT section, which of course I did, so I did it again, and it succeeded. Something wrong with the form.

Al Guevara,
There is no such feature. If you need such feature – we provide commercial support service and we could change our plans to help you faster.

Please resume development on this great plugin.
Thanks for making it.

Thanks for the great plugin! Is there possibility to start sphinx daemon automatically after apache restart?

Hello Ilya. I think there should be some way, e.g. add smth like ‘service sphinxd restart’ to /etc/init.d/apache or maybe make a special configuration for ‘monit’, but I don’t quite understand why this is needed since apache daemon and sphinx daemon do not have anything in common and work separately unless there’s some very custom configuration.

Thanks for the great plugin! Is there possibility to start sphinx daemon automatically after apache restart?

Hi Semih. If you mean normal apache restart (e.g. service apache restart) then you can make a hack in apache init script so it restarts sphinx daemon on start. If you’re worried about Sphinx daemon sometimes not running due to some circumstances you can also add smth like /etc/init.d/sphinx start to crontab so it’s run once per minute, then the longest possible downtime will be less than a minute. Please contact us at info@ivinco.com if you need our help with this or similar things.

Thank you guys for the great plugin and AWESOME!!! results keep the good work

Hello,

Thanks for you great plugin! However, advanced search does not work after last update. Plugin does not find anything if I use advanced search. Even on default settings and with default plugin template.

PS Where I have put the template files to avoid them on plugin updates?

Hello Ilya,

Thank you for giving us your feedback! Actually we did not experienced such a problem on our sites but we would like to help you with yours.

Could you please give us a bit more details about your problem with advanced search? You did some changes to default plugin template, didn’t you? Once you perform a search, is there a request to the server at all (any javascript error appers)? If the request is performed well then what is the state of URL at that moment?

About template files. If you change plugin templates I would recommend before doing an upgrade to make a backup of your current plugin state since all templates will be replaced with new onces after automatic update. But if you have a backup, you will have a chance restore back your templates and have a fresh code again at the same time.

Thanks!

Hello, does the plugin work also using the internal (the admin interface) search box?

I installed this plugin anybody tells me how can I use it
thanks

Hi Ilmkidunia

Did you read the tutorial http://www.ivinco.com/software/wordpress-sphinx-search-tutorial/ ?

I am a novice to this but I have set up pages and I have downloaded Sphinx to the plugin. When I came to use the wizard the following message comes up
Installation: Sphinx installation error, try to run this command manually in Terminal:
Command: ./configure –with-mysql –prefix=/www/sites/0d2/a19/testwordpress.smacs.co.uk/web/wp-content/uploads/sphinx 2>&1 at the directory:/www/sites/0d2/a19/testwordpress.smacs.co.uk/web/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/sphinx-2.1.9
try running it with sudo if it doesn’t work.

It says use the manual system but how does this work, It also says that the Sphinx index is not working.
PS I am not a programer but I have managed to set this web site up for a local society that I belong to. All I am looking for is a simple word search.

Hello. If you know how to use linux terminal I recommend to try to install sphinx like this:
1) yum install sphinx
2) apt-get install sphinx

1) or 2) depends on your OS.

If you’re using a shared hosting ask your hosting provider to install Sphinx binaries for you.
Feel free to ping me at opensource@ivinco.com and if you give me access to the server I can help you configure the plugin.

Further to Sergev email. Thank you for this but I did say that I am a novice and not a programmer. I do not know how to use Linux, but the Sphinx wizard for some reason does not work. I just need some easy explanation on how to install a search feature on the web site. At some point it mentions using WP-content where do I find this?
Thank you

I’m afraid you’d better stick with default WP search then or look for another plugin which doesn’t depend on a third-party tools like Sphinx or Solr or Elastic or smth else. It’s just that because of the nature of their “third-partiness” they sometimes require extra effort to install them and when you’re on a shared hosting or don’t have access to the terminal by another reason there’s little you can do about this.

And again – I perhaps can help you if you ping me at opensource@ivinco.com. Feel free to contact me.

@Sergey: ummulshifa seems to be a bad bot copying my first comment 🙂

Thanks Li-An. Indeed. I’ve missed that.

> Thanks Li-An. Indeed. I’ve missed that.

I’m to!

Друзья, спасибо! РЕАЛЬНО КРУТАЯ ШТУКА!

Hello!
The plugin has not been updated for more than a year.
Please tell me, the plugin will be supported in the future?

Hi Vladislav

Thanks for contacting us. Do you miss any feature or have any problem with the plugin?

Sergey Nikolaev: Thanks for the answer!
No problems, I plan to use the plugin.
So I wanted to make sure that he was alive 🙂