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…
Relevanssi can index attachment contents from files linked to posts with ACF File fields. This does not happen automatically but requires some extra code. The code required depends on which return value you use for your ACF File fields. If you use “File ID”, the code looks like this: For “File Array”, the code looks…
Relevanssi has a minimum word length setting that is set to three characters. Any one- or two-letter words are not indexed unless you change this setting from the Relevanssi advanced indexing settings. Sometimes it would be helpful to ignore short words but to index one- and two-digit numbers. You can do that with a bit…
This latest update adds new debugging tools, user interface features, and a Relevanssi exclude feature to the ACF field edit screen. There are also several minor bug fixes. 2.20.4 / 4.18.3 2.20.3 / 4.18.2 2.20.2 2.20.1 / 4.18.1 2.20.0 / 4.18.0
On sites where ACF fields are used a lot, with Flexible Content and Repeater fields, it may be difficult to make Relevanssi only index the relevant ACF fields. One way to deal with problem is to set Relevanssi to index “visible” custom fields and then restrict the indexed fields by field type. Add this function…
Ajax Load More is an infinite scrolling plugin for WordPress. It has a Relevanssi extension, but with the current versions of Ajax Load More (5.5.4.1 as I write this), the extension no longer does anything. The extension relies on a filter hook that does not exist in the plugin. Instead of the extension, you can…