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Autocomplete, InstantSearch, and Recommend in the Algolia app blocks now support version 5 of the Algolia API client. Most stores only need to switch the search client version setting to Version 5. If you use custom storefront JavaScript, follow the version 5 upgrade guide. Support for version 4 ends on August 14, 2026.
Custom plugins can help in these cases:
  • If you want to show a data subset differently from all matching products or articles. For example, showing all on-sale products in a separate list, or only show help articles.
  • You want to support searching data from other sources in your autocomplete menu.
You can add a custom plugin using the beforeAutocompleteOptions hook.

Example of sale items

This example shows how to display on-sale products in a separate list (in addition to all other results). You can achieve this by creating a source that searches into your product index, and applies a filter to only include items where the named_tags.onSale attribute is true.
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Last modified on July 31, 2026