Taylor Lovett

Tag: ElasticPress

  • ZendCon 2017

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    I'm excited to once again be presenting at ZendCon 2017. This year I'll be doing two talks. On Tuesday, October 24, I'll be presenting "Isomorphic WordPress Applications using NodeifyWP" which will cover isomorphic JavaScript in WordPress, specifically NodifyWP, Twenty Sixteen React, and the NodifyWP Environment. Here are my slides. Isomorphic WordPress Applications with NodeifyWP from…

  • WordCamp NYC 2015

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    Today, I will be presenting “Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch” at WordCamp NYC 2015. Here are the slides: [slideshare id=49285188&doc=kn90yvgutz6anhmxhbaw-signature-ceaf3ee66f220b8c0abecab05c07a574ba287ef155962d54784a9fe15297676b-poli-150611195100-lva1-app6891]

  • ElasticPress at WordCamp Miami and WordCamp Belo Horizonte 2015

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    On May 30 I am presenting at WordCamp Miami 2015. My session is titled “Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch”. I have revamped the talk a bit to accommodate less technical users. Rather than running through Elasticsearch configuration, I am talking more about example ElasticPress queries. I’ll be doing the same talk June 13 at WordCamp…

  • ElasticPress at WordCamp Nashville

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    This weekend I presented at WordCamp Nashville 2015. My session was titled “Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch”. I’ve given this talk a few times but am excited to present it to the South! Here are my slides for the talk: [slideshare id=43831233&doc=wordpress-search-elasticsearch-150123113829-conversion-gate02] Don’t forget that comprehensive documentation for ElasticPress lives on Github.

  • ElasticPress at WordCamp Paris

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    This weekend I presented at WordCamp Paris 2015. My session was titled “Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch”. The talk ran through issues with WordPress search, what Elasticsearch is, setting up an Elasticsearch cluster, and configuring ElasticPress. Elasticsearch is a very exciting technology and I am thrilled at the chance to spread information about it. I…

  • Valuable Lessons Learned in ElasticPress

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    ElasticPress is a 10up WordPress plugin project that integrates Elasticsearch with WordPress. As we all know search in WordPress is not a great experience. Why? Well, MySQL is not a database optimized for search. Thus ElasticPress was born. 1. Search result relevancy scores on sites with high post to shard ratios can vary depending on…