Here’s a different approach to WPML searching. By default, you have two options. You can include posts in all languages in the results, or you can only use the current language. This solution checks for matches also in other languages. If Relevanssi finds any, this script then replaces them with the translated posts. You get…
Searching for shop orders is tricky business with WooCommerce. WooCommerce blocks searching the orders. WooCommerce also keeps the order data in many different tables. Because of this complexity, the shop_order post type is not available for indexing. You can enable it by adding this to your theme functions.php: This is not enough, though. The order…
Relevanssi doesn’t by default index the headings in Visual Composer. This is because the vcex_heading shortcode Visual Composer for the headings stores the heading text inside a shortcode attribute. By default, Relevanssi does not index shortcode attributes. In this case, indexing the shortcode attribute is necessary. Fortunately it’s easy to fix with a simple function…
In general, searches ignore accents, which is generally a good idea: for example in French, the difference between e and é isn’t huge, and it’s fine if the search engine isn’t too picky about which is which. However, there are cases where there is a big difference: for example in Finnish, the letter ä isn’t…
Visual Composer and WP Bakery have a Raw HTML element that can be used to add HTML code on your pages. By default, this content is stored in an encoded format Relevanssi can’t read. Fortunately the encoding is simple Base64 encoding that is easy to read. So, in order to read the contents of the…
This is a very common request: “How do I show the most popular searches in a widget or on a page?” Relevanssi does not have such a feature built in, and the reason for that is twofold: First, on many sites, the most common searches are either spam or boring. On this site, I use…
In regular expressions, ^ can be used to match beginning of the line and $ to match the end of the line. For example, ^ban will match banana, but not urban, while ban$ matches urban, but not banana. These are called anchoring operators. By default, Relevanssi matches either beginning or the end of the word,…
Relevanssi is generally well compatible with FacetWP, which provides advanced filtering and faceting capabilities for the search. There are however some situations where Relevanssi and FacetWP do not work well. Make sure you are using the Relevanssi integration plugin for FacetWP. It covers most of the problems. Disabling the FacetWP integration In some cases, however,…
Envira Gallery is a gallery plugin for WordPress. Since it uses a custom post type for the galleries, it works fine with Relevanssi. However, the gallery post type doesn’t have any information about the actual images: no titles, tags or other details like that. Since the images are uploaded in the Media Library and are…
Metabox is a suite of plugins to handle custom fields. It seems like a solid competitor for Advanced Custom Fields. There’s nothing particularly Relevanssi-unfriendly about it, since it uses custom fields to store the data and Relevanssi can read custom fields. MB Relationships MB Relationships is an extension to Metabox that can be used to…