…So, if having a big Relevanssi table slows down the site, the effect should definitely be visible on this site. I ran three tests using a speed test tool provided by my hosting provider Seravo (one of the best WP hosting companies in the world, by the way). It’s basically……accessed at all except during searching, so it shouldn’t matter how big the table is. Fortunately site speed is something that can be measured, so we can make some actual experiments here. The experiment I used Kirjavinkit as the testing ground, because it’s one of the biggest sites I run….
Often users would like to get a free trial of Relevanssi Premium, but we always say no. Why is that? The answer is simple. We offer our customers lots of liberties. Providing a temporary trial use is difficult. Relevanssi customers have liberties We don’t believe in spying on our customers……whenever there’s time for it – there’s rarely any pressure. Providing customer service is more demanding, and needs to happen now. Right now, our resources are enough to cover the needs of our customers. What happens if we get a lot more customers? We need to either stop selling licenses……accept a single payment is easier than accepting a yearly fee. For a business, the price difference often isn’t significant. Yet, it’s the customer support that’s the biggest demand on our resources. The amount of development work is the same, no matter how many customers. We can work on code…
Sometimes you want to get a specific post as the first result for a certain search, but Relevanssi doesn’t return the right post as the first result by itself for some reason. Relevanssi Premium has a tool for these situations: pinning. Pinning allows you to specify keywords for each post, and whenever that keyword is…
Query Monitor is by far the best thing for a WordPress developer. It’s billed as the “Developer Tools panel for WordPress”, and that’s a good way to put it. If you’ve ever used the browser developer tools, you know what to expect. Query Monitor is a good way to figure out problems in Relevanssi searches,…
…hasn’t come up in tests before this. Relevanssi also now requires PHP 7. It should not be possible to update Relevanssi on sites that are still running PHP 5. If your site is running PHP 5, it’s badly irresponsible and you really, really should update the PHP version to something…After the Summer break, Relevanssi is back with new versions, both to Premium and free. These are mostly small improvements, but when testing the new version, I discovered a bug in the comment indexing that has made Relevanssi not index comments when they are added. I’m not sure why this……operators ? (any one letter) and * (zero or more letters) can be used inside words, if enabled by setting the relevanssi_wildcard_search filter to true. See information here. New filter hook relevanssi_term_where lets you filter the term WHERE conditional for the search query. Doing the document count updates asynchronously caused…
Is is possible to set Relevanssi in a way that it would return only perfect matches for queries up to 3 characters, but any words that starts with the queried term if it has 4 characters or more? – Originally asked here Yes, but it requires a bit of code. Add this to your site and…
Relevanssi Premium 2.10.2 introduces a new way to search: wildcard matching. Once the wildcard matching is enabled (it is disabled by default), it introduces two new operators: * and ?. Using the wildcard operators The * operator replaces zero or more characters, so searching for w*ess would match “wilderness”, “witness”, “WordPress” and also “wess”. The…
Updating WooCommerce to version 4.4 breaks Relevanssi searches. After updating WooCommerce to version 4.4, Relevanssi searches no longer find results. This problem is caused by changes in WooCommerce. Those who are interested in the details can go read the GitHub issue I created. For those interested in solving the problem, the next version of Relevanssi…
…’aáàâậăằảbcdđeẹêệềghiịklmnoóọôộơớợpqrstuụủưựứvxyỹ’; } ); Hebrew add_filter( ‘relevanssi_didyoumean_alphabet’, function() { return ‘אבגדהוזחטיכלמנעפצקרשתםןףךץ’; } ); Stemming and suffix stripping Relevanssi Premium includes a simple English-language stemmer that changes word forms to more basic forms to make the searching less dependent on exact word form. To enable the English stemmer, add this to your……site and rebuild the index: add_filter( ‘relevanssi_stemmer’, ‘relevanssi_simple_english_stemmer’ ); Other languages: Finnish: Simple Finnish stemmer. French: Simple French plural support. German: Simple German stemmer. Korean: Korean postposition stripping. These simple stemmers are not very good, though, so I recommend using a proper Snowball stemmer. It’s available as an add-on plugin……and is slightly harder to set up, but the results are better, and the plugin supports over dozen languages. Get the Snowball Stemmer add-on plugin here. Arabic diacritics You can improve the Relevanssi Arabic support by removing diacritics with this function. Add this to your site: add_filter( ‘relevanssi_remove_punctuation’, ‘rlv_arabic_remap’, 9…
I need to add some custom shortcodes to the list of the “removed” ones (so they don’t show in plain text in the results). However, some of them are built like [shortcode_name text=”Need to keep this in results”] and I would like the content in the text parameter to stay in the results. How…