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Live Search PLP (Product List Page) Widget 2.0 was released on May 12, 2024. Three additions: Add to Cart directly from search results, multiple product images, and dynamic colour-switching in place.
Add to Cart from the results
Until now a customer had to click through to the product detail page to add anything to their basket. Widget 2.0 lets them add from the results list, which takes a page out of the path for anyone who already knows what they want.
More than one image
Results can now show multiple product images, so a customer can look at another angle, a colour option or a lifestyle shot without leaving the search interface. That is context they would otherwise have to open the product page to get.
Colour-switching in place
Selecting a different colour in the results updates the product imagery there and then. If you sell fashion or home goods, where the first question is usually whether it comes in navy, that is the change worth having: variant exploration stops requiring a trip to the product detail page.
Performance
2.0 includes optimisation work aimed at keeping interactions quick on large catalogues — tens of thousands of products is exactly where widgets of this kind start to feel heavy.
Should you upgrade
Adobe recommends moving to Widget 2.0 promptly, and on a standard Live Search configuration the upgrade is straightforward with no custom development needed. If your PLP is heavily customised, treat it like any other front-end change: staging, real catalogue data, and a proper look at how it behaves on a phone before it goes anywhere near live.