WordPress Plugin 1.0.33: Deleted Media Files No Longer Stay Searchable

Deleting a document from your WordPress Media Library used to leave it searchable forever. Version 1.0.33 of the Opensolr Search plugin fixes that, along with a second problem where replacing a file left the previous version indexed alongside the new one.

01 Deletions now reach the index

Previously, removing a document from the Media Library removed it from your site but not from the index. Visitors kept finding a file that no longer existed, and the result led nowhere. The plugin now deletes the document from the index at the same time it leaves the Media Library.

02 Replaced files no longer duplicate

If you uploaded a replacement under a different name, the previous version stayed indexed. A single search could return both the old and the new file, with no way for a visitor to tell which one was current. The superseded version is now removed.

03 New uploads are searchable at once

A newly uploaded PDF or Office document is indexed as soon as it is uploaded, rather than waiting for the next bulk ingestion run to pick it up.