The Relevanssi attachment indexing assumes the files are connected to the posts using the WordPress attachment mechanism. What if you don’t use that but instead add the files to the pages using the File block in the block editor? That’s not a problem, but it requires some extra code. Add this function to your site…
These versions are maintenance releases, with some new filter hooks that allow more customization and some requested debugging tools. The rest of the updates are small bug fixes in fairly uncommon situations. 2.24.2 / 4.21.2 2.24.1 / 4.21.1 2.24.0 / 4.21.0 You can get the new version from the automatic updates. The Premium version can…
EmbedPress has an auto-embed feature that tries to embed all URLs found in posts. This can cause problems with Relevanssi: searches can take a very long time when EmbedPress tries to fetch all outside URLs. The solution is simple: you can disable this feature during Relevanssi excerpt creation. Add this snippet to your site:
This version has one major new feature. Previously when Relevanssi used custom fields for excerpts, the custom field content was added to the end of the post content, and there was no way to tell which custom field the content was coming from. Now, you can use custom field specific excerpts which use individual custom…
In some cases, WooCommerce product stock level changes don’t affect the search immediately. If the search is set up to exclude out-of-stock items, a product that sells out may still be included in the search until the next reindexing. This happens because changes in the stock status don’t trigger a WordPress post update that Relevanssi…
This update adds just one new feature, but since it involves a database update, it’s a major version. The new feature adds a session ID to the search logs. The main reason for this is to eliminate duplicate log entries from live searches. Users of Live Ajax Search have noticed their logs filling up with…
Relevanssi Premium gets a bigger version number bump than the free version this time. The 4.18.4 release of the free plugin is a minor update, while 2.21.0 adds a significant new feature. You can now add weights for pinned words to control the order of the pinned posts. This new feature is documented on the…
We have posts with titles like “A perfect match”. If a user searches for this exact title, only this post should show up in the results. Otherwise, the search should run as default. There are several approaches to this, but the best is relevanssi_hits_filter. This function goes through all the posts, checks if the post…
FileBird is one of many WordPress plugins that provide more control over the attachments in the Media Library. You can use the FileBird folders in Relevanssi searches to filter attachments based on their folder. Here’s a simple function you can add to your site: Once you add this, you can use the folder parameter to…
By default, Relevanssi indexes the different language versions of the posts separately. If your site is in French and English, searching for the English text will find the English posts and searching for the French text will find the French posts. But what if you want the French search terms to find the English post…