ACF | Revolutionizing Search: WP Engine Smart Search Now Live on ACF
We have recently upgraded the search functionality on advancedcustomfields.com to WP Engine Smart Search. This enhancement significantly improves the search experience, helping you find the information you need more quickly and accurately.
The default WordPress search capability often falls short when it comes to surfacing relevant content from searches. It offers almost no configuration for weighting of data, doesn’t support operators to search for multiple words together, and it won’t search data from post meta, so it won’t pick up anything from ACF!
WP Engine Smart Search, on the other hand, was designed with the ACF community in mind. Out of the box, custom post types created with ACF will automatically index without requiring any custom coding. This is perfect for a site like advancedcustomfields.com, which uses a ‘resources’ custom post type for its documentation section.