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April 28, 2021June 4, 2021 by Mikko Saari

Spam search blocking

…search queries in the server access log. Bing bot made about 16,000 of these. That’s a ton of wasted server power and a lot of unnecessary traffic. It’s a good idea to tell bots not to access your search results pages. To instruct bots to avoid your search results pages,……detrimental for search engine visibility. Blocking bad bots on server level There are security plugins that can block bad bots from accessing your site. These plugins have other issues, and in general it’s always better to block the bots on a lower level. That will both increase security and save…

Premium 2.15 / Free 4.13

…controls which tag is used to wrap the missing terms. New filter hook relevanssi_missing_terms_template can be used to filter the template used to display the missing terms. Premium: New filter hook relevanssi_missing_terms_must_have filters the ‘Must have’ part of the missing terms element. New filter hook relevanssi_phrase filters each phrase before……lists to the search results. You can either use the %missing% tag in the search results breakdown settings, or you can create your own code: the missing terms are also in $post->missing_terms. Relevanssi Premium will also add ‘Must have’ links when there’s just one missing term. New filter hook relevanssi_missing_terms_tag…

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March 24, 2021 by Mikko Saari

Why is a post type excluded from search?

…even though it has been excluded from the search. Relevanssi can index posts that are excluded from the search. If you have indexed an excluded post type, the column will still say the post type is excluded from the search, because the setting that is defined when the post type……“Respect exclude_from_search” option in the Relevanssi searching settings. As you can see, Relevanssi will suggest you need to uncheck this option if you choose to index an excluded post type. In many cases it’s good to stop and think before you index an excluded post type: there’s a good chance……there’s almost always a good reason why these post types are excluded from the search in the first place. However, sometimes there are situations where it would be useful to include these excluded posts in the search. That’s possible with Relevanssi: all you need to do is to uncheck the…

WP Event Manager

Using Relevanssi with WP Event Manager requires you to adjust the search process in WP Event Manager a bit. Fortunately, the plugin has good filters you can use. Add this to your site: This will adjust the event listing query arguments to switch on the Relevanssi flag, causing Relevanssi to process the results. This way…

Martfury

Martfury is a WooCommerce theme that comes with a built-in dropdown search. That’s great, except that as usual the dropdown search doesn’t work with Relevanssi. Fortunately the search is hooked into place, so it’s possible to hook it out and replace it with something new. That might not be necessary, though. The theme developer has…

Adding direct links to outside pages to search results

Hi, is there a way to add a link to another website when searching for certain keywords? We have a few affiliates and we want to include a direct link to their websites in the search results when certain terms are searched for. How would I go about this? A straight-forward approach for this is…

Relevanssi breaks autoembeds on result pages

…4.12.4 (free) onwards you can allow autoembed discovery with this line of code: add_action( ‘init’, function() { remove_action( ‘relevanssi_pre_the_content’, ‘relevanssi_kill_autoembed’ ); }, 99 ); This will allow the autoembeds to work on the_content filter hook again. However, this may lead to performance problems. Try it out and see what happens….

Premium 2.14 / Free 4.12

…attachment are read, Relevanssi will now automatically index the parent post if the setting is enabled. 2.14.4 / 4.12.4 New feature: New action hooks relevanssi_pre_the_content and relevanssi_post_the_content fire before and after Relevanssi applies the_content filter to the post excerpts. Some Relevanssi default behaviour has been moved to these hooks so…This new version improves Relevanssi excerpt generation, making it faster especially with larger posts. Lots of small bug fixes are also included, making Relevanssi more robust. 2.14.5 / 4.12.5 (Premium) New feature: New WP CLI command wp relevanssi remove_attachment_errors clears out all attachment reading errors. Changed behaviour: relevanssi_excerpt_custom_field_content now gets……it can be modified. Changed behaviour: The relevanssi_do_not_index gets the post object as a third parameter. Minor fix: Remove errors from relevanssi_strip_all_tags() getting a null parameter. (Premium) Minor fix: Updating posts still used relevanssi_update_doc_count(), which can sometimes be really slow. (Premium) Minor fix: Corrected misleading instructions about indexing AND synonyms….

Elementor

…function. For example, if you’re trying to make attachment searching work and e_search_props is setting the post_type and post_status parameters to exclude attachments, you can do this: add_filter( ‘relevanssi_modify_wp_query’, function( $query ) { $query->set( ‘post_types’, ‘any’ ); $query->set( ‘post_status’, array( ‘publish’, ‘inherit’ ) ); return $query; } ); This will……allow all post types and the inherit post status used by attachments. Making Elementor queries use Relevanssi with Query IDs If you have an Elementor element that doesn’t use Relevanssi for the search results, you can force it do so by using Elementor Custom Query Filters. Give the query element…

Ultimate Member

Relevanssi generally works well with Ultimate Member and can be used to search Ultimate Member profiles. Ultimate Member doesn’t do custom profiles but instead builds upon WordPress user profiles. If you want to change the default /author/ URLs for user profiles in search results to point to the /user/ URLs Ultimate Member uses, that’s easy…

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