Title: Plugin Updated: Search
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: May 25, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Plugin Updated: Search

# Plugin Updated: Search

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 25 May 2021

21:55:12 GMT+0000

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This change ensures the index is correctly initialized in ElasticSearch before operations
that could create a default index. Default index doesn’t have the correct mapping
set and therefore could potentially cause search issues.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2134](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2134)