Title: Search: Update index replica counts
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: March 30, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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# Search: Update index replica counts

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 30 March 2021

21:07:26 GMT+0000

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Modifies the default index replica count in preparation for changing the index shard
allocation settings.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2031](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2031)