Replace search in wp-admin

[JJJ]

Elastic search is currently only used for improving the visitor experience. Is it possible to improve the accuracy of searches within wp-admin? Accuracy and performance of searching through posts, users, comments, etc... could likely be vastly improved.

[AaronHolbrook]

+1 to this idea! :)

[tlovett1]

Yes, except this will be harder than it seems :) WP_Query will have to be replaced with an ES_Query object.

[TheLastCicada]

I will +1 this as well - the search for users is horrible in the admin. On sites with thousands of users, this could be a huge win.

[AaronHolbrook]

As discussed this should be an extension to the main plugin as we don't want to necessarily provide this functionality without explicit intent.

[jonathanbardo]

My company and I are currently looking for a similar functionnality because we are using WordPress as a back-end only site and we want to be able to search content effectively (post meta mostly). If I could help implementing a plugin extention in any way let me know. I would love to help!

[AaronHolbrook]

This is being built out as a separate module. I have a working prototype (warning: needs much more testing) over at https://github.com/10up/ElasticPress-Admin.

Closing this issue, all future issues concerning admin search should take place over there.

[AaronHolbrook]

Hey @jonathanbardo, would absolutely love your help - I have some basic functionality working over at the ElasticPress-Admin repo, however I think a good idea is to auto-include all available post meta for searching on the admin.

I've created an issue for it here: https://github.com/10up/ElasticPress-Admin/issues/8 would love any and all help!

[jonathanbardo]

Really glad to see this going forward at the exact time where I was going to look into it a little bit further. Will check the extension out and see what I can do to help!