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Delivering Great Search For Your WordPress Content
Jon Handler, Amazon CloudSearch Solution Architect Chris Scott, Vice President, Platforms Development
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Today’s Webinar
! Housekeeping
! Introduction to Amazon CloudSearch • Jon Handler, CloudSearch Solution Architect
! Using the Lift plugin with WordPress • Chris Scott, Vice President, Platforms Development
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What is Search Shoes
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Amazon CloudSearch
! Pay for infrastructure you need when you need it ! Low cost ! No need to guess capacity ! Experiment fast with low risk ! We do the undifferentiated heavy lifting ! Go global in minutes
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT AGENDA!
• Who is the Voce Platforms team? • Why do we need a better search for WordPress? • How we developed Lift for WordPress • Why we chose Amazon CloudSearch • How Lift works • Installing and using the Lift plugin • Lift in the wild
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT WHO WE ARE!
• Developers and designers • We build publishing systems • http://voceplatforms.com
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT WHY A BETTER SEARCH?!
WORDPRESS SEARCH IS BASIC, LIMITED • A simple LIKE query on the post title and content • No ranking or faceting • Only posts and pages are searched (and with equal
priority)
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT WHY A BETTER SEARCH?!
OUR CLIENTS WANTED MORE • Better relevance • Custom post type support • Ranking and faceting
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT HOW WE DEVELOPED LIFT!• Started with a functional spec based on client needs • Created a technical spec to outline the
implementation details • Started coding on Monday at a team offsite and
finished on Friday for an initial release • Custom PHP, JS, CSS
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT WHY AMAZON CLOUDSEARCH?!
• Doesn’t require us or our clients to host their own search instances – fully managed
• Dynamic scalability for data/query traffic • CloudSearch has an easy API for both search and
configuration • Relevancy was good out of the box with the ability to
fine tune if needed
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT HOW IT WORKS!
PLUGIN INITIALIZATION • A search domain is created via the configuration API • A default document schema is added • A WP_Cron job is added to queue all posts for
submission via the document service API
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT HOW IT WORKS!DEFAULT DOCUMENT SCHEMA Field Type Facet Result Search
----------------------- ------- ------------- ------ ------------- blog_id uint Yes (default) Yes Yes (default) site_id uint Yes (default) Yes Yes (default) id uint Yes (default) No Yes (default) post_author uint Yes (default) No Yes (default) post_author_name text No Yes Yes (default) taxonomy_category_id literal Yes No No taxonomy_category_label text No No Yes (default) post_content text No No Yes (default) post_date_gmt uint Yes (default) No Yes (default) post_status literal Yes No No post_title text No Yes Yes (default) post_type literal Yes No Yes taxonomy_post_tag_id literal Yes No No taxonomy_post_tag_label text No No Yes (default)
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT HOW IT WORKS!
DOCUMENT SUBMISSION • Documents are batched • Batches use two queues (active and closed) to
prevent race conditions • Batches are run via WP_Cron • Document submission errors will be retried
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT HOW IT WORKS!
SEARCHING • Hooks into WP_Query to check for a search • Builds a boolean query from the WP_Query • Replaces WP_Query results with CloudSearch
results • This is all transparent to WordPress
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT INSTALLATION!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT CONFIGURATION!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT CONFIGURATION!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT CONFIGURATION!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT DASHBOARD!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT LIFT IN USE!
BIG TEN NETWORK • A large number of pages along with continually added
post content • Not yet live in production so this is a demo of a
subset of their content • ~6K documents using 1 small instance
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT BTN.COM – STANDARD SEARCH!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT BTN.COM – LIFT SEARCH!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT BTN.COM – LIFT FILTERS!
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01. WELCOME! MIKE MANUEL GENERAL MANAGER
VOCE CONNECT LIFT SEARCH WIDGET!
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Do You Want Search With That?
! Build your own – database, home-rolled, site search
! Open source
! Legacy enterprise search
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Search Challenges
! Complex, expertise required
! Costly, often with up-front expenditure
! Long time to market, innovation and experimentation are slowed
! Operational overhead is undifferentiated work
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Amazon CloudSearch Architecture DNS / Load Balancing
Search API Console
SEARCH SERVICE
Doc Svc API
Command Line Tools
Console
DOCUMENT SERVICE
AWS Query
Config API
Command Line Tools
Console
CONFIG SERVICE
Search Domain
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CloudSearch Features ! Free text, structured data, Boolean search ! Customizable relevance ranking ! Faceting ! Fielded and Range search ! Alphabetic or numeric sorting ! Field weighting ! Visually compare rank expressions
! Reporting (zero result queries, top results, etc.)
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Resources and Q&A ! Amazon CloudSearch Overview Page
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/ • 30 Day Free Trial; FAQs; Community Forum; Tutorial • Introducing Amazon CloudSearch (Features) • Building a Search Application Using Amazon CloudSearch
! Lift Search information: http://getliftsearch.com/
! Lift Search plugin download: http://wordpress.org/plugins/lift-search/
! Github page for feedback: https://github.com/voceconnect/lift-search/issues
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Thank You!
Jon Handler / handler@amazon.com Chris Scott / cscott@voceconnect.com
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