Ajax Search Pro 4.22

All release logs for version 4.22

4.22.5 - 2022.08.13

The post type filter now allows a "select all/any" option for drop-down and radio values
Compact box layout - can be separately enabled for each device type
Improved the vertical scrollbar visibility

Fixed an issue with the visual keyword highlighter
Fixed an issue with the vertical navigation events not loading properly
The advanced title and content fields are now registered to string translations
Fixed an issue with the elementor products filter, when the initial pagination would not work correctly
Index table - Improved the HTML parser
Added some missing translations - Thank you Domi for pointing them out

Index Table: Improved custom field tokenization process
Synonyms - import from CSV files is now possible
Improved the global event handler script
The updates message now includes a link to the license activation page
Scrollbar script disabled by default - using modern browser scrollbar styling instead
Greatly improved the loading of the single font asset
Removed some CSS overhead on default options

Fixed an issue with the ajax mutation detector for the init script
Fixed an issue with the REST API search results count
Fixed an issue with the auto updater script
Fixed an issue with the compact box closing script, when the search text was also visible
Fixed an issue with the isotopic results URL recognition
Fixed an issue with fixed layouts for the compact box layout

Init method - Using intersection observer for the init script instead of the more costly viewport check feature
Hovering results and settings box positioning - fixed an issue, where the body margin was incorrectly subtracted from the position, when body transformation was not present
Reduced the size of the inline scripts printed
Fixed an issue where the suggested keywords did not trigger the search

Now each search bar is only initialized when visible on the main window, to improve processing performance. This feature can be turned off here.

Massively improved the scripts initial execution time by about 70%. This is a major improvement for google pagespeed insights. Example before and after.
Improved the browser pushstate (back and forward) button behavior
Now every existing installation is switched to the new, more powerful non-legacy scripts. The legacy scripts are now deprecated, and will be removed in the next major release.

Changed the main menu slug to asp_main_menu, as it was missing from a specific installation (maybe a conflict with another plugin?)
Fixed a PHP 7 compatibility issue with the REST api
Fixed a few Elementor filtering related issues
Fixed an issue with the search bar width calculation
Results information box - the pseudo-variables like {phrase} now can be used multiple times in the text.
Fixed an issue with accented characters in the keyword highlighter feature, now accented and non-accented versions should be highlighted correctly

Added an option to update the current URL in the address bar according to the filter states.
Added a basic REST API to access results in a JSON format (usage)

Fixed an issue with the index table HTML extractor
Fixed an issue with the DOM manipulator script
Fixed an index table issue, where the results page would be slower, due to incorrect processing of large result sets
Fixed an issue with the attachment search with the regular engine
The index table now properly indexes attachments when uploaded
Fixed an issue with the results width for mobile and tablet devices
PDF parser - fixed an issue with possible HTML tag recognition
Fixed the font loader, now only loads them when needed
Fixed an issue with ACF select filters, where the numeric field keys may not be correctly fetched
Improved the conditional script loader
Fixed an issue with the results auto scroll feature
z-index issue fix for fixed search layouts
Fixed an issue with the google analytics pageview tracker integration

The results information box text container is now a DIV instead of P tagh, because then some HTML is not supported in P tags
Update the live results URL and do a push state for both Elementor and Results page live loaders

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.

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

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