Title: "run composer install"?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# "run composer install"?

 *  Resolved [trident60](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trident60/)
 * (@trident60)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-composer-install/)
 * Hello,
    Just installed ElasticSearch and wanted to try out your plugin. I donwloaded,
   unzipped, uploaded to the plugins folder and the I got stumped already – on Github
   it says run “composer install” inside the directory.
 * How? 🙂
 * Is there a way to run the “composer.json” file?
 * I tried activating the plugin without running the composer – but I got errors
   of course.
 * Thanks!
    Rob
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/elasticsearch-indexer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/elasticsearch-indexer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [wallmanderco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wallmanderco/)
 * (@wallmanderco)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-composer-install/#post-6181485)
 * You only need to run composer if you downloaded the plugin from github. If you
   download the plugin here from wordpress.org or the built in plugin installer 
   in your wordpress admin panel then you don’t have to run composer. Make sure 
   you have at least php5.4 installed.
 *  Thread Starter [trident60](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trident60/)
 * (@trident60)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-composer-install/#post-6181486)
 * Hello, thank you – I installed and indexed with no problem.
 * Just to be clear, this plugin is just for creating an index – it doesn’t replace
   WP-Query, correct? So I still need a way to actually access and search the index?
 *  Plugin Author [wallmanderco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wallmanderco/)
 * (@wallmanderco)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-composer-install/#post-6181488)
 * No, this integrates with WP_Query. All you need to do is install and index and
   you searches will be full text searches instead of MySQL LIKE queries and you
   should notice an overall speed boost on the site. But you can do queries/searches
   against the indexed database if you would like.
 *  Thread Starter [trident60](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trident60/)
 * (@trident60)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-composer-install/#post-6181489)
 * Hmmm….okay…that’s what I was hoping for…
 * But 🙂
 * I’m not seeing any difference in search time results. When I query MySQL it’s
   very slow – about 60-75 seconds. When I use the search widget with the Indexer
   running and everything re-indexed, it still takes the same amount of time.
 * Any ideas why?
 * It should be about about .5-1 second – that’s the speed when I query the Elastic
   server (it’s also what I was getting with Solr) so it’s almost as if the plugin
   is being bypassed somehow.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [wallmanderco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wallmanderco/)
 * (@wallmanderco)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-composer-install/#post-6181498)
 * Have you reindexed the site?

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