Title: Plugin Updated: Search
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: July 6, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Plugin Updated: Search

# Plugin Updated: Search

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 06 July 2021

09:03:19 GMT+0000

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We updated the Search plugin to include the following changes:

 * Only load facets assets when the widget is active [https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/77](https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/77)
 * Remove duplicate category_name, cat and tag_id from ES query when tax_query set:
   [https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/92](https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/92)

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2241](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2241)