A new version of Premium is here, with cool new features. Taxonomy pages (tags, categories, custom taxonomies) can now be indexed and searched. Short search terms don’t crash the search anymore. There are fixes to the user search as well, including a new option to index additional fields. Relevanssi now uses search result caching system…
Here’s what Relevanssi Premium 1.4.5 has: New filter: relevanssi_match allows you to weight search results. Similar to cats vs cat, you can now use post_types to restrict the search to multiple post types. Multisite search supports post type restriction. The relevanssi_match filter is a really cool new feature that’ll give you lots of extra power…
The relevanssi_match hook lets you modify the matches found for queries. It passes a match object, which has the post id ($match->doc), number of hits found in different parts of the post and the weight assigned to the post ($match->weight). Here’s how Relevanssi calculates the weight: Where $idf is the inverse document frequency, aka the…
Here are the changes in 2.8.2 of Relevanssi Free. These are minor changes, but they can be quite important. WordPress didn’t support searching for multiple categories with the cat query variable. There’s now new cats which can take multiple categories. Similar to cats vs cat, you can use post_types to restrict the search to multiple…
Small changes, but this is a pretty useful one. However, not a mandatory update and since this changes the way Relevanssi does certain things in a fairly radical way, I’d actually suggest NOT to upgrade, unless the new behaviour is something you need and are willing to test. Changed the way search results are paginated.…
A standard way to change the number of search results displayed is something like this: Unfortunately, this breaks Relevanssi. Relevanssi hasn’t played nice with posts_per_page in any case, for some reason I don’t really understand — this is legacy code from the original wpSearch plugin. However, from Premium version 1.4.4 and free 2.9.2, you can…
Another quick bug fix. Fixed the Did you mean -feature, which was broken by the database change. WordPress doesn’t support searching for multiple categories with the cat query variable. There’s now new cats, which can take multiple categories as a comma-separated list. For some reason, WordPress doesn’t take arguments like ?s=term&cat=1,2 but strips the ‘,2’.…
Quick bugfix upgrade: Multisite search had bugs. It’s working now. Stopwords are not highlighted anymore. Now this feature actually works. Nothing earth-shaking, but if you’re a multisite user, this upgrade is mandatory. Go download.
Do you want to have a breakdown of search results by post type? This could be used for example to show a list of post types like books, movies, or albums on a review site, and make them links to limit the search results to that post type. This is fairly easy to do with…
Like I said, watch out for the bugs. Here’s the first patch to fix the 1.4 bugs. This release fixes the broken limit feature and spelling correction feature and corrects the text domain for translations. Get yours from the download page.