Comments on: Solr for WordPress 0.2.0 Released

By: matt

matt — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:07:59 +0000

Yea, this is an easy fix. Just modify the code that generates the teaser.

By: Francois

Francois — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:02:45 +0000

And if you are working with custom fields to add some meta-data (for example, if you are describing products attributes of a catalog).

Would it be possible to extract those custom fields and use them as facets.

To create a faceted navigation like CNET does with its products reviews (SOLR powered).

Thank you for your reply

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:50:33 +0000

Oops,

What I suggest to add in the shema.xml was remove from my comment.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:48:22 +0000

Hi Matt,

We had some e-mails last year when I tried the 0.1 version. I took time to test this new version and I can see you added options for optionnal facet display.
In the results list, I can see 3 items that can be optionnal :
* search processing time
* result item score
* result item author

Please, in your shema.xml, for text and text_lws fieldType add before the tokenizer (for index and query)

Great job anyway.

By: Okto Silaban

Okto Silaban — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:08:26 +0000

Since I still failed using s4w_search version 0.3, I switch back to the older version, 0.2.0.
And I finally found out that the problem is not on your plugin, but it’s my SOLR. I use the solr-tomcat 1.2 version, which didn’t work with your attached schema.xml (got it from the error message)

So then I upgrade my Tomcat to Tomcat 6, and upgrade solr to Solr 1.4. And it works fine..! I’ve just made some changes to make it fit my blog design.

So.., maybe it’s better if you mention the requirement : Solr version >= 1.3

Btw, it didn’t include comment in this search, did it? I think maybe you should add comment to the search index for the next version.

And.., there is one more. The search result only display too little teaser. Sometimes it only shows a line of sentence. Could I make it a paragraph? Maybe by making some changes on the plugin?

By: matt

matt — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:39:55 +0000

This is not a problem with Solr, but a problem with PHP timeout settings. PHP will only allow a script to run for a certain amount of time before it stops execution of that script. When indexing a lot of posts we seem to hit that execution timeout setting. The only thing you can really do about it now is to change your php max execution time into php.ini, http://www.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.max-execution-time. I have addressed this issue in the next version of the plugin using javascript and ajax.

By: Okto Silaban

Okto Silaban — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:10:07 +0000

I have more than 3000 posts on my WP.

Btw, I’m new to this SOLR thing. Since I didn’t read any information what should I do with the SOLR, I just installed solr-tomcat5.5, anda tomcat5.5 on my server and run it with default configuration.

Should I do something with the schema.xml you mention on installation documentation?

By: matt

matt — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:46:41 +0000

No, this plugin currently does not index uploaded items. This is on a list of items for future versions, unfortunately it will not make it into 0.3.0 which will be released next.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:45:25 +0000

How many posts are you trying to index? I have found a bug in 0.2.0 that a php timeout will occur and thus fail indexing if you have to many posts to index. I have fixed this in the next version which will be released soon.

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:57:56 +0000

Hi Matt,

one question: Does the plugin index files that were uploaded through wp-admin as well? If so, which file types are supported?

Thanks for your answer! …and the plugin, of course.