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Super Search
Developer
3rd Party (Commercial)
Compatibility
- LG Addon Updater
- Multi Site Manager
- Stand Alone Entry Form
Requirements
Tags
The Super Search module is designed to greatly improve the performance of your average EE search or blog page. It can be used as both a search engine and as a replacement for the weblog:entries tag.
The Super Search module is designed to greatly improve the performance of your average EE search or blog page. It can be used as both a search engine and as a replacement for the weblog:entries tag.
The architecture of the module borrows from Google’s model of constructing search queries. Anything that you might want to query for, keywords, weblogs, categories, statuses, custom fields, date ranges, custom field numeric ranges, etc. can be loaded into a single URI segment by using the Super Search syntax. This makes pages highly cachable, shareable, flexible and versatile. Values can of course be hardcoded using template parameters. But if you choose, you can also load all of your params into a single query string and provide that as a param. Forms can be created freely by you to submit queries to a results page and Super Search will translate the contents of the POST. Everything resolves itself into the standardized Google-like search string. So if you want, you can assemble queries on the fly using Javascript in your page, send that to Super Search and load it via AJAX into your page.
The primary reason it was developed was out of a desire to serve pages from EE as fast as possible. There are several levels of caching included which further improve performance. In our testing so far, searching for the letter ‘a’ across a DB with 50,000 unique entries, Super Search can return and parse batches of 50 entries on a simple shared server in under .25 seconds. These load times are dependent on Super Search caching and will vary of course, but you should be able to greatly improve your page performance.
Super Search will support relevance based searching which has been a need in EE for some time now. Most clients want to execute a search quickly and then see results sorted by some model of relevance. Super Search makes this available.
Super Search Links
This entry was last updated August 4, 2011, 8:21 pm.
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4 Reviews:
davidfwall 04.14.11
I agree with Kristen I should have checked the Solspace forums before I spent money on this. It has some severe limitations. The documentation is very technical and there are very limited examples.
That said, there are some really useful features and the speed of searches is great.
Kristen Grote 10.27.10
v1.2.0 – Check the forums for bug issues before purchasing this module. It’s great for simple customized searches, but use it for anything complex and your life will be hell. I’m sure after a few more updates it will be a stellar module, but it’s currently not worth the $100.
eyevariety 10.21.10
Worth every penny. This tool is super fast and enables advanced information display that you just can’t do with the normal EE search/weblog entries tools.
Ryan Battles 09.22.10
While I didn’t find the documentation as helpful as it could be, once I installed the module, it worked intuitively. It certainly saves a lot of time if your client has any sort of advanced search needs. At $99 it is a bit expensive to play around with, but if you need it, the price is worth it.