Control to activate/deactivate ElasticPress search control along with indicator for current status

[AaronHolbrook]

Can pull from previous plugin - very nice to determine current status of Elasticsearch with your install

[tlovett1]

I like the idea of a connection status. Maybe a green check and text that says "Successful connected to your Elasticsearch index". Right now there is no way to deactivate without deactivating the entire plugin. Perhaps that needs rethinking.

[tlovett1]

Thinking about this one... What is the use case for why you'd want to deactivate within the plugin as opposed to deactivating the whole plugin?

[AaronHolbrook]

Primary use case would be the user wants to adjust configuration settings without it affecting the live site search (i.e. fallback on wordpress search if deactivated).

User would be unable to adjust/configure/etc if plugin was 'always on'.

[tlovett1]

Clarification: we want to have an on-off switch for search integration. So if we turn off search, search will fallback to WP search. This will be important while syncing is ongoing.