ElasticPress is the only WordPress search solution that offers all the features you’d expect from a modern search engine (fuzzy matching, autosuggest, synonym matching, geo-search, etc), while remaining fully open-source across the entire stack. If your site has outgrown basic WordPress title/content search, or you need to handle complex queries that normally would take a long time on a MySQL database, ElasticPress is a great option.
We’ll cover the typical uses for ElasticPress (better, faster search) and then also dive into some of the lesser-known features, such as faceting and related content. Attendees will leave the talk with a solid understanding of how ElasticPress can help improve their site and how ElasticPress integrates with WP_Query. For the more technical attendees, we will also cover how to do local development and testing with ElasticPress and Elasticsearch.