Creator Got Greedy, No Longer Recommend This Plugin

  • Jupiterus

    (@jupiterus)


    1 month, 1 week ago

    Used to be great, but then the creator got greedy and made it into a subscription service. There’s a free version but it’s so heavily limited and will break search functionality – specifically try searching for words like “to” or “from” in it and it won’t pick up those search queries (you can’t disable this either without paying for that subscription service).

    Was a good plugin, but owner got greedy. There’s other free plugins out there to improve WP’s search functionality, shame.

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    1 month, 1 week ago

    @jupiterus

    I’ve had a free version of Better Search for about 15 years, and none of the plugin’s functionality has been removed since the introduction of the pro version over a year ago.

    I’m not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that searching for “to” and “from” is disabled in the free version and enabled in the pro version. Words like “to” and “from” are common stop words that are automatically disregarded by MySQL FULLTEXT.

    A few users have reported a bug in Better Search that I’ve fixed in a beta and will be available soon.

    It isn’t polite to call me greedy when I’m trying to make a bit of money for a premium version you don’t need to subscribe to and haven’t. Nor have you requested any help for my plugin in this forum before.

    In fact, it looks like you created this account just to write a bad review of the plugin.

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