FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce

1.31.0, July 16, 2025

• ADDED: Info about Elementor widget
• ADDED: Documentation links to Search in SKU and GUID
• ADDED: Add filter to conditionally disable analytics recording (e.g. by IP, phrase, lang)
• ADDED: Add the ARIA label to the search icon for accessibility improvement
• ADDED: Option to skip plugin loading on search page by adding the nofibosearch=1 parameter to the URL
• ADDED: Troubleshooting — tests for the minimum required versions of themes and plugins with available integrations
• ADDED: New filter to optionally show “Products” headline when only product suggestions are returned
• ADDED: Filter to always show “See all products” button in autocomplete
• ADDED: Filter to disable inline styles from the Personalization class
• ADDED: CSS adjustments in Uncode theme — centered the search bar in the menu
• FIXED: Managing initial search bar interactivity before the main script has loaded
• FIXED: Incorrect language code in speech recognition
• FIXED: Removed the .woocommerce class from the FiboSearch bar widget
• FIXED: Prevent JS error when getFormWrapper returns undefined or empty jQuery object
• FIXED: Deprecated: Automatic conversion of false to array (PHP >= 8.1)
• FIXED: Styling issues in the Enfold theme
• FIXED: There was an error in the SQL syntax that occurred during the plugin uninstallation process
• FIXED: Escape double quotes in optionsRaw to prevent JSON.parse errors
• TWEAK: Moved the JS ‘fibosearch/show-details-panel’ event to just before the preloader is hidden
• TWEAK: Code styling adjustments
• TWEAK: Hiding unwanted banner on settings page
• TWEAK: Optimized database queries
• REFACTOR: Removed Listeo theme integration
• UPDATED: Updating the .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.30.0, January 27, 2025

• ADDED: “Bricks theme” integration – support for “Products” element on the search results page
• ADDED: “Bricks theme” integration – incorrect order of results on the search results page
• ADDED: Integration with the “Discontinued Product Stock Status for WooCommerce” plugin
• ADDED: The link to edit the FiboSearch bar in Customizer
• ADDED: The x button was added to the review request notice
• FIXED: Missing data in the “Details Panel” for product variations
• FIXED: Resolved an error when attempting to insert FiboSearch blocks in the block editor
• FIXED: Eliminated duplicate search results in autocomplete
• FIXED: Enabled searching for products whose variations are all out of stock but have the “allow backorders” status
• FIXED: WCAG “Links do not have a discernible name”
• FIXED: WPML integration – no results when option “use translation if available or fallback to default language” is used
• FIXED: Flatsome theme integration – can’t search in mobile overlay view when search is activated from the mobile menu
• FIXED: Incorrect display of the FiboSearch form when it is embedded in the shop page description
• FIXED: Mobile search in the menu does not work when the Divi Mobile plugin is active
• FIXED: Unnecessary header “Search results for…” when there are no results for post types other than products
• FIXED: Google PageSpeed Insights – avoid non-composited animations
• FIXED: Search icon padding when the search icon is a part of the main menu
• TWEAK: Theme integration is not loaded when the minimal version condition is not met
• TWEAK: Improved clearing of plugin data on uninstall
• TWEAK: Hiding unwanted banner on the settings page
• TWEAK: Remove the “(beta)” suffix from the “User search history” option
• REFACTOR: Remove the “Grouped results” option
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.29.0, October 29, 2024

• ADDED: Integration with the Listeo theme
• ADDED: New troubleshooting test – warning when “Ajax Search Lite” or “Ajax Search Pro” plugins are active
• ADDED: WCAG improvements – possibility to select and open a search icon using the keyboard
• ADDED: Search icon preloader. In some rare cases, a user can wait longer to display the search icon or search bar. Instead of an empty place, a placeholder is displayed
• FIXED: Generatepress theme integration – incorrect mobile overlay on the checkout in the Generatepress theme
• FIXED: A better way of calculating window width when the breakpoint is checked
• TWEAK: Hiding the XStore theme documentation button on the settings page
• UPDATED: The .pot file.
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK

1.28.1, June 28, 2024

• FIXED: Removed the phrase “polyfill.io” from the JavaScript code comment. FiboSearch has never linked to this compromised library, but some security tools recognize this JavaScript comment as a potential link to malware. All reports are false positive.
• FIXED: PHP deprecated notice in DgoraWcasHelpers::keyIsValid
• FIXED: Unnecessary display of warning in Troubleshooting when products are displayed using a widget from “JetSmartFilters”

1.28.0, May 27, 2024

• ADDED: New search bar style – a compact version of a “Pirx” style
• ADDED: Integration with the “Cartzilla theme”
• ADDED: Integration with the “Rey theme”
• ADDED: Placeholders to display custom content for new suggestion types like taxonomy, posts, pages, and product variation
• FIXED: “Woodmart theme” – unable to close the mobile menu after exiting the mobile search overlay
• FIXED: “Flatsome theme” – disappearing search bar on mobile phones
• FIXED: “Flatsome” – cannot change search bar style to Pirx
• FIXED: “Divi theme” – shortcodes are not rendered in the description in the Details Panel for pages
• FIXED: “XStore theme” – the integration doesn’t replace all search forms
• FIXED: Force disabling transition effect on search input to avoid unexpected layout bouncing
• FIXED: Allowing to calculate score including one and two-character words
• FIXED: Better recognition of iOS
• FIXED: Uncode theme – the search icon doesn’t show on the header
• TWEAK: Removed OPcache invalidation for the shortcode template file
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK to v2.7.2

1.27.0, January 31, 2024

• ADDED: Integration with the “Betheme theme”
• ADDED: Highlight words in search results with Greek letters regardless of accent
• ADDED: Support for “Full-width Search” in the “XStore theme”
• FIXED: Multiple search containers on mobile in the “Astra theme” integration
• FIXED: No focus on search input for mobile devices in the “Astra theme” integration
• FIXED: Allow an HTML <i> tag in suggestion titles and headlines
• FIXED: Multilingual support is active even for one language
• FIXED: Overriding the search icon and form in the header was not working properly in the “WoodMart integration”
• FIXED: Missing filters from “Advanced AJAX Product Filters” plugin in the “Divi theme”
• FIXED: Replace &#37 for more stable format %% in a sprintf function
• FIXED: An unwanted modal after closing the search overlay on mobile in the “Flatsome theme”
• FIXED: Missing colors after updating the “Bloksy theme” to 2.x
• FIXED: Incorrect calculation of a product’s position in search results when it contains Greek letters
• FIXED: Incorrect term language detection in the WPML plugin. Replacing term_id with term_taxonomy_id
• FIXED: Unwanted ampersand entity in the product description of search results
• UPDATED: Requires PHP: 7.4
• UPDATED: The .pot file
• UPDATED: Polish translation
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.6.2

1.26.1, October 19, 2023

• FIXED: Details panel – wrong HTML format of stock status element

1.26.0, October 17, 2023

• ADDED: Integration with “Bricks builder”
• ADDED: Integration with “Brizy builder”
• FIXED: Calc score by comparing every word of the search phrase instead of all search phrase
• FIXED: WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugin – invalid search results e.g. not hidden products and categories in the search results
• FIXED: Flatsome – when there are more search icons, only one is replaced
• FIXED: WPRocket – in some cases search fields/icons are not replaced immediately after the page load
• FIXED: Highlight matched words instead of the whole search phrase
• TWEAK: Allowing access to the Personalization class via DGWT_WCAS() function
• TWEAK: HUSKY – Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce plugin – disable the test in the Troubleshooting module for newer versions of this plugin
• REFACTOR: Replace .click() with trigger('click'), .focus() with trigger('focus'), .blur() with trigger('blur')
• REFACTOR: Replace jQuery.fn.mouseup() with $(document).on('mouseup')
• REFACTOR: Replace jQuery.isFunction() with typeof fn === 'function'
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.5.12

1.25.0, July 06, 2023

• ADDED: Possibility to search for taxonomy terms regardless of accents in a phrase or term name
• ADDED: Added some new filters to change URLs of results in autocomplete and details panel
• FIXED: Warnings due to open_basedir restrictions
• FIXED: Integration with the Impreza theme – broken AJAX pagination for Grid element
• FIXED: Integration with the TheGem theme – missing search results when the “Layout Type” option is set to “Products Grid”
• FIXED: Integration with the Divi theme – mobile overlay not showing up
• FIXED: Stronger sanitization of the details panel output
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.5.10
• UPDATED: Polish translation

1.24.0, May 25, 2023

• ADDED: Integration with the “Minimog” theme
• ADDED: Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are included in the FiboSearch Analytics module
• ADDED: Taking into account a new feature of the dark theme in the Nave theme
• ADDED: Possibility to change the color of a search bar underlay. Only for the Pirx style
• ADDED: New search widget and extended search results for Elementor
• ADDED: TheGem theme – “Header Builder” support
• FIXED: Wrong position of search icons in the history search module
• FIXED: Broken suggestions layout and detailed panel visibility when the “Minimum characters” option is set to less than 1
• FIXED: Compatibility with PHP 8.1
• FIXED: Hide unnecessary modules when constant DGWT_WCAS_ANALYTICS_ONLY_CRITICAL is set to true in the FiboSearch Analytics module
• FIXED: Incorrect display of information about constants on the debug page
• FIXED: Other minor bugs in the FiboSearch Analytics module
• FIXED: Integration with the Astra theme – support for version 4.1.0 of the Astra Addon
• FIXED: Integration with the Minimog theme – wrong position of the search history wrapper
• FIXED: Integration with the Enfold theme – the search engine icon disappears when the page finishes loading
• FIXED: A HTML tag <br> was unnecessarily stripped in the description in the details panel
• FIXED: The voice search feature – overlapping icons and disabling functionality on Safari
• UPDATED: French translation
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK v2.5.8
• TESTS: Two integration tests that check saving phrases in a database table
• TESTS: Fix assertion in “Analytics/Critical searches without result”
• REFACTOR: Change order if set settings defaults. Now the defaults are set after calling the dgwt/wcas/settings filter
• SECURITY: Added escaping for a “Search input placeholder” option

1.23.0, April 05, 2023

• ADDED: Integration with the “Blocksy” theme
• ADDED: Integration with the “Qwery” theme
• ADDED: Integration with the “StoreBiz” theme
• ADDED: Allows the Shop manager role to manage the plugin settings by adding a constant to the wp.config.php file
• ADDED: Allows creating HTML templates instead of displaying simple “No results” message
• IMPROVED: Blocks calculating score if the phrase contains a single character
• FIXED: More accurate calculation of the order of products in search results. The extra score for an exact match of a sequence of words
• FIXED: Storefront theme – not working focus event while using a mobile overlay for iPhone devices
• FIXED: Mobile overlay on iPhone devices – didn’t hide search results on a scroll event or after clicking the “done” button
• FIXED: iPhone devices – annoying auto zoom in search input on focus
• FIXED: Search icon mode and search history – a search bar was needlessly concealed on clicking the “Clear” button
• FIXED: Freemius SDK – added submenu slug
• FIXED: Flatsome theme – detecting incompatible settings and disappearing search form on hover
• FIXED: Layout option – hidden triangle icon when a layout is “icon” and style is “Pirx”
• FIXED: Unnecessary AJAX query on the settings page
• TWEAK: Replacing empty href tag with # in Storefront integration because of SEO
• TWEAK: Trivial CSS changes
• UPDATED: Freemius SDK to v2.5.6
• REFACTOR: Forcing mobile overlay breakpoint and in layout breakpoint in theme integrations
• REFACTOR: Variables names in the method Helpers::calcScore()

1.22.3, January 30, 2023

• FIXED: Some prices were not aligned properly

1.22.0, January 30, 2023

• ADDED: New feature – Search history. The current search history is presented when the user clicked/taped on the search bar, but hasn’t yet typed the query.
• ADDED: FiboSearch Analytics – New widget in WordPress Dashboard with critical searches without result
• ADDED: Integration with Essentials theme
• ADDED: Make UI_FIXER object as global object
• ADDED: Ability to search for vendors by description and city
• ADDED: Ability to exclude critical phrases in the Analytics module
• ADDED: Custom JavaScript events during the search process
• ADDED: Ability to export search analytics data as CSV files
• FIXED: Integration with Flatsome theme – focus event didn’t work with a search bar
• FIXED: Integration with WooCommerce Product Filter by WooBeWoo – “Undefined array key ‘query’” notice
• FIXED: Integration with Jet Smart Menu – repair duplicated search bars IDs
• FIXED: Integration with Astra theme – support for version 4.0.0
• FIXED: Integration with Astra theme – cannot change the number of products on the cart page
• FIXED: Integration with XStore theme – support for search icon in mobile panel
• FIXED: Compatibility with PHP 8.1
• FIXED: RWD for FiboSearch Settings views including Analytics views
• FIXED: Search bar CSS, especially when Pirx style and Voice Search work together
• FIXED: A user with permission to edit plugin settings cannot see search analytics
• CHANGE: Updated French translation
• CHANGE: Hide the Voice Search icon when a user starts typing
• CHANGE: Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.3
• CHANGE: Remove information that Analytics is a beta feature
• CHANGE: Remove information that Darkened Background is a beta feature
• CHANGE: Set “Pirx” as a default search bar style

See changelog for all versions.