Title: Search: Add auto-updating of index settings
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: March 16, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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# Search: Add auto-updating of index settings

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 16 March 2021

19:14:04 GMT+0000

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This change adds support for automatically updating an index’s settings to match
the desired state, enabled on only a subset of sites. This provides the ability 
to easily control index settings both per-site and across the VIP platform.

NOTE – this is currently not enabled on any sites.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2023](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2023)