SHSarwar Hosseininwebequipe.hashnode.dev·Jul 31 · 5 min readIndexing Large PDFs Without Timing OutThe first version of our indexing code did exactly what you'd expect: a PDF gets uploaded, a hook fires, we parse the whole file, we store the text. It worked fine — until someone uploaded a 300-page 00
SHSarwar Hosseininwebequipe.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 7 min readWhy Testing Our WordPress Plugin on One Site Almost Fooled UsWhen we first built the search form for our WordPress PDF search plugin, testing felt almost boring. We spun up a clean WordPress install, dropped in the shortcode, uploaded a handful of PDFs, and ran00
SHSarwar Hosseininwebequipe.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 5 min readHow to Audit PDF Content on a WordPress Site Before Improving SearchPDF search sounds like a simple problem. A website has PDF files.Users search for something.The correct PDF should appear. But in real WordPress sites, it is usually not that simple. Some PDFs are tex00
SHSarwar Hosseininwebequipe.hashnode.dev·Jul 9 · 4 min readAI Agents Can Read Your Website — But Can They Read Your PDFs?AI agents, chatbots, and AI-powered search tools are changing how people find information online. Before, we mostly optimized websites for users and search engines. Now, we also need to think about to00
SHSarwar Hosseininwebequipe.hashnode.dev·Jul 3 · 5 min readWhy PDF Indexing in WordPress Needs Background ProcessingUploading a PDF to WordPress feels simple. You add the file to the Media Library, WordPress stores it, and the file is ready to use. But if you want that PDF to become searchable, the work does not st00