ElasticPress Documentation

ElasticPress, a fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress, enables WordPress to find or “query” relevant content extremely fast through a variety of highly customizable features. WordPress out-of-the-box struggles to analyze content relevancy and can be very slow. ElasticPress supercharges your WordPress website making for happier users and administrators. The plugin even contains features for popular plugins.

ElasticPress 5.0: Minimum versions required for ElasticPress 5.0 are:

• Elasticsearch 5.2+
• WordPress 6.0+
• PHP 7.4+

ElasticPress 4.0: Minimum versions required for ElasticPress 4.0 are:

• Elasticsearch 5.2+ ElasticSearch max version supported: 7.10
• WordPress 5.6+
• PHP 7.0+

ElasticPress 3.0: ElasticPress 3.0 contains major changes from 2.x including a rewrite of the feature registration API and PHP 5.4+ features. If you have problems upgrading, please create an issue. The minimum PHP version for ElasticPress 3.6.2 is 5.6.

Please note: currently, trunk is the stable branch on GitHub.

Upgrade Notice: For the full list of versions that need re-syncing, check the check_reindex_needed() method in the ElasticPress\Upgrades class.

For more information about the ElasticPress plugin and ElasticPress.io service, please visit the website.

To report an issue with ElasticPress or contribute back to the project, please visit the GitHub repository.