Just landed back home from WordCamp Europe. I’d say it was the best one yet. Funny thing happened - people I'd never met were stopping me and referencing that initial “this is me” post from a couple of weeks ago. A few said some version of: "you don't seem like someone who just came out of the corner" which is flattering - it’s not as easy as it looked. That feels kindof strange because I was always the shy kid (*with a dash of breaking the rules here and there). Now I’m actively putting myself out there as a CEO. I feel this is something that is simultaneously personally intimidating yet necessary for my business right now. Plus it kinda feels good 😊 So was the event worth it? Four meetings were the most obvious value add to @SearchAndFilter : • The team from @commercegurus , two amazing chaps from Ireland (@simontomkins & @colmtroy), sharp on ecommerce - it’s our second time meeting and I think without meeting in person we wouldn’t be having the productive conversations we are today. • @KatieKeithBarn2 and I had a few chats. We have some overlap in products - I love her openness and desire to collaborate on other areas (and we will probably). • @paloukas from Pressidium - all round great energy and we made some good progress with a partnership we’ve been discussing. • Caught up with @MrBrianHaas and the digicube team again. They went from customer, to building our website, to friends - I always look forward to seeing their team at these events. I also asked a question I was curious about: why do people who've been building for 10 years, some, mostly invisible, suddenly start showing up? It was a common pattern this year. I assumed it was new products or struggling with user acquisition. @dannyvankooten was one of them - and his answer was simpler: he just wanted to “stick a finger in the air and see which way the wind is blowing” with WordPress. That's partly why I went too. It was also the first year bringing the whole team and it was really great getting to know them better - I have to say I couldn’t have done it without them - a huge thanks to Vesela & Panagiotis @BobWP @remkusdevries @idavinder #wceu

What’s the #1 reason you’re coming to @WCEurope this year? Best comments get these cool @SearchAndFilter tote bags. I've been going to WordCamps for a few years. This time I feel it’s different. Among other reasons, I feel it is taking a stand for WordPress at its most unstable of times. It’s the first time I’m doing contributor day, and the first time I'm coming with the whole team - we'll all be there on contributor day. I've applied to be on the Core AI table. See you there! #WCEU

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Search & Filter 3.2.0 is here! This is a huge release and includes our brand new *Enhanced Search* feature. Plus: - Redesigned admin UI - 10x faster indexer queries - Block Editor upgrades - WooCommerce upgrades - Accessibility - Import/Export youtube.com/watch?v=-8RdMj73…

A sneak peek at Search & Filter 3.2.0. ~ New admin UI. ~ 10x faster queries. ~ New design options. ~ Better accessibility. ~ Upgraded Block Editor WooCommerce integrations Our biggest release in over a year - coming soon!

New doc just published: How to Install Search & Filter with Composer searchandfilter.com/document…

Our Black Friday Cyber Monday deal is now live! 🚀 We're offering our biggest discount of the year on Search & Filter licenses from 24.11 - 05.12. More info is available on our website! searchandfilter.com/pricing/

Coming *very* soon to Search & Filter - our Block Editor refresh: - 18 new block types (10x easier to find a filter) - Block transformations within the same type - Preview interactivity toggle - test *inside* the editor - Edit Queries from the query loop block Happy Friday! 🥳

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October is going to be huge for Search & Filter users, our upcoming 3.2.0 release has _so_ many cool new things. One of my favourites is our new admin redesign. We're leaning heavily into the design language from FSE and dataviews - but also added a few touches of our own 🤩

HUGE update coming to Search & Filter very soon! I've been focussing on performance and managed to make some queries up to *10x faster* with less memory 🚀 If you were topping out at 20k posts filtering before, you just got a free boost to 40k without changing a thing 😎

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