New Features

Media Service - An external File Indexing service for the index table engine with a Free subscription tier. The Media Service is an external feature to handle very accurate file content indexing for text type, PDF, Office Word, Office Excel and Office Powerpoint files.

Fixes

Removed an old deprecated IE compatibility code

Fixed an issue with the taxonomy term filters, when the shortcode is used, and the filters are set to invisible

Select2 (select and multiselect filters with search feature) script issue fix - Now allows empty values, when nothing is selected

Index table shortcode parser improvements

Fixed an issue with the image parser

Fixes

• Polylang compatibility fix
• Index table attachment search issue fixed

New Features

• Date filters - now possible to select the earliest and the latest post dates as the default filter values
• Ajax Pagination on Elementor widgets
• Browser back button - now works with Elementor results

Fixes & Improvements

• Index table - fixed an issue with title indexing, where the post title was 0 characters long
• Fixed the auto populate with the legacy scripts
• "use strict" on all javascript files
• Eleminated all inline CSS and moved to a separate file instead
• Eleminated all jQUery direct handler calls and replaced with .on(..) and trigger(..) on the back-end scripts.
• Auto-populate duplicates (when using random order) + more results feature are no longer present
• Default search cache interval changed to 30 days instead of 1 day
• Fixed an issue with the slider and range sliders init script when used in a cloned pop-up
• Datepicker now correctly sets the value when clicked the back button on mobile safari browsers

Fixes

• Keyword exceptions now properly work on multisite setups with index table search
• Improved post author name indexing (first, last, nickname and display names)
• Improved index table relevance on post titles containing apostrophe type characters
• Google Lighthouse optimizations - greatly optimized script loading method, vital CSS optimizations, and font loading optimizations
• Corrected the conditional asset loader
• Polylang issue fixes - now the results page should respect when the polylang compatibility is turned off
• Index Table - added option to update index when post meta is changed (OFF by default)
• Elementor - Magnifier & Return actions - Now redirect to first result with elementor
• Elementor - when hitting the "reset" button on clearing the search bar or the filters, it should reset back to the original state.
• Browser back button - now works without entering a phrase

Changes

• Removed very old browser compatibility option, which was causing issues
• Many of the legacy scripts also reduced in size