Add a help text for field "Weight results by date" #2291
Labels
enhancement
module:posts
Issues related to the Posts Indexable / Feature.
module:woocommerce
Issues related to the WooCommerce functionality
Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.
No.
Describe the solution you'd like
When the field "Weight results by date" is enabled the Elasticsearch will not compute the decay function for documents that were created with a distance less than 7 seven days (default value defined by ElasticPress) from the origin (current date). This is a way to boost the most recent documents.
Although this is interesting for pages and posts, it couldn't be for products. Especially when the algorithm version 3.4 is used. So, my suggestion is to add a help text for the field "Weight results by date" to clarify this behavior.
Example how it happens:
Results:
Disabling "Weight results by date" the result for the same search is:
Designs
Describe alternatives you've considered
Detecting if WooCommerce Feature and "Weight results by date" field is enabled, then show a warning in the Post Search feature.
Additional context
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