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It's simple to do with this addon
https://fulltextsearch.org/wpfts-addon-files-only-1.0.1.zip

It contains some code to limit post_type to 'attachment' only:

add_action('pre_get_posts', function(&$wpq)
{
	if ($wpq->is_search && $wpq->is_main_query()) {
		$wpq->set('post_type', array('attachment'));
		$wpq->set('post_status', array('inherit'));
	}
});

Pretty simple. If you want to set up your own post_types, just modify this code. You can read about full WP_Query() parameters at the Wordpress official documentation.

EpsilonAdmin

Hi @PaulF

It should be indexed in minutes normally.

If you have some strange delays, please do this:

Try to open WP Admin on the WPFTS Settings page for some time and notice if the number of indexed documents increases. If not, it should be a bug in the code that appears in error.log - please check this file if there are some error messages.
Try to follow this recipe to fix the DNS problem (normally indexing should go transparently without WP admin open).

Let me know what you found, I also could help you via the short TeamViewer session.

Thanks!

EpsilonAdmin

Hi @rgm_b

Currently, the plugin works with the database, not with the physical location of the files. Actually, it does not matter where the file is stored - it will index all the files that are in WP Media Library.

So the best way to index the folder with files - just to upload these files into the WP Media Library. Is it a problem to do that with your app?

EpsilonAdmin

Hi @pfb6736

Yes, you can do this via CSS, either by adding a new rule to your Theme custom CSS block, or you can use WPFTS Settings / Search & Output / Display / Smart Excerpts CSS editor block.
I hope it's .widget.widget-search rule, you can set 'width: 100%' to extend widget's width to all available room.
The plugin is growing, but we have not yet a powerful system to make customized search widgets. What I can propose to you is (depending on your PHP/WP knowledge): there is a file /includes/widgets/wpfts_widget.class.php which is actually a native WP search widget with some changes for Live Search functionality.
I would recommend you to copy this file to your child theme and create your own widget (by adding a select input to existing code). In case you think your knowledge of PHP is not that good, I can gladly help you, but you need to explain to me what exactly you need.
Yes, it's possible via the small code addition. Do you want to show a path to the file instead of the file title? Or it should be an additional line in the search result item? Do you think showing a local path to the file is OKAY and maybe it's better to show Category instead?
As I can see they are highlighted (bolded) but you can change this again in the Smart Excerpts CSS block. For example, this rule will make found words RED and YELLOW highlighted.

.wpfts-result-item .wpfts-smart-excerpt b {	
	/* Excerpt text */
	color: red;
	background-color: #ff3;
}

Thanks.

EpsilonAdmin

Hi @blixhavn

Do you remember which plugins you've installed recently? Some of them may conflict with WPFTS Pro, especially when making a search at the front end. Please try to disable those plugins temporarily.

If it does not help, let's connect with TeamViewer so I can solve this issue faster (write me a private message or via Live Chat at the main page).

EpsilonAdmin

Hi @wordherd

It looks like an out-of-memory situation. Sometimes WPFTS Pro requires a bit more memory to work than usual, so I would recommend switching your memory_limit option (in php.ini) to 512M at least.

Please try this and let me know if it helped or not. Thanks!

EpsilonAdmin

Hi, @Amine
The WPFTS Pro version you are using is very outdated. Please consider upgrading to 2.46.x which is the latest. It has a completely new indexing and searching algorithm and it should solve your issue.

EpsilonAdmin

@magicalbrad Please let me know if the new file version still does not work. I can fix that.

EpsilonAdmin

Hi @magicalbrad

Sorry, there was a slight desynchronization between versions. In order for the addon to work with external files, you need to update this file in your version of WPFTS Pro in the folder fulltext-search-pro/includes/ (unzip before upload)

wpfts_utils.class.zip

This file will be added to the next release of the Pro version.

That should help.

EpsilonAdmin

After 30 September 2021 you can see the "License expired" message on your website and when you try to set up the license key on the WPFTS Settings / Licensing page, you may notice the red error message saying "Update API is not accessible".

The reason for this behavior is the expiration of the "DST Root CA X3" root certificate (expired 30 Sep 2021) that is required to connect to all Let's Encrypt-based services and the WPFTS Update service in particular.

How you can solve this?

In case your server is a shared service, you need to contact your hosting provider and ask to renew the root certificate bundle.

In case you have a VPS or Dedicated machine, you need to update root certificates by yourself.

On the Ubuntu/Debian machines, just disable the certificate on your server. Run:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

On the first screen that prompts "Trust new certificates from certificate authorities?" choose "yes". On the next screen, press the down arrow key on your keyboard until you find mozilla/DST_Root_CA_X3.crt, press the space bar to deselect it (the [*] should turn into [ ]), and press Enter.

Also please update and upgrade installed packages using

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

For the CentOS machines:

yum reinstall ca-certificates

These actions should fix problems with the SSL certificates.

EpsilonAdmin

Some users reported to me that they do not see Smart Excerpts in the search results. They are using Astra Theme. Basic Search Result looks like this:

As you can see, there are only links to PDF files instead of Smart Excerpt. Additionally, for normal posts, we can see a piece of content without any highlighting, and also shortcodes are not rendered.

Fortunately, it's very simple to fix.

You need to go to Appearance -> Customize -> Blog -> Blog / Archive and find the button that switches "Post Content" between "Full Content" and "Excerpt". You need to switch it to "Excerpt" and Publish changes.

This should help and search results become look like this:

Much better, right?

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