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February 20, 2019February 2, 2022 by Mikko Saari

…option. You can also add taxonomies, like posts and categories. Using taxonomies requires that Relevanssi indexes the taxonomy; you can adjust that on the Relevanssi indexing settings page. You can choose which post types Relevanssi uses for the related posts. “Matching post type” means that for posts, Relevanssi uses posts……to use random posts or leave the related posts empty. Adding the related posts manually If you don’t want to append the related posts to the posts automatically, you can use the relevanssi_the_related_posts() function in your templates. The function will print out the related posts. If used without a parameter,……specify keywords that Relevanssi uses to fetch the related posts for that post. If you want a specific post to appear as a related post, you can list the post ID. The widget will also show the current list of related posts. Changing the settings should refresh the list right…

Index custom field contents

Custom fields (also known as post meta or meta fields) are a major part of WordPress the default search won’t search. That’s a big problem for people who use solutions like Advanced Custom Fields or Carbon Fields to develop sites: on sites developed with custom field plugins large parts of the post, content may be…

Indexing and searching PDFs in WordPress

…attachment indexing is a two-step process. First, the attachment content is read and stored in a custom field (_relevanssi_pdf_content). This step alone does not index the attachment content – it just makes it available for future indexing and ensures you don’t have to read the attachment contents many times. The second……step is the actual indexing. Here Relevanssi offers two different methods. You can choose to index the attachment post type, in which case the search results will include the attachment posts. The other method is to index the attachment content for the parent post of the attachment, in which case…Relevanssi Premium users have asked for PDF indexing since day one, and version 2.0 finally introduced this feature. Coming up with a fast and reliable method hasn’t been easy, but we’re pretty proud of what we have now. Our PDF indexer doesn’t tax your server as it runs as a…

Taxonomy archive search

This is a Premium feature and only applies when you index taxonomy terms. This does not apply in free Relevanssi. To include taxonomy pages (categories, tags, custom taxonomies) in the search, enable the option on the options page. There’s also the option to choose which taxonomies are included. By default……the post object created from the taxonomy page, $post->post_title contains the name of the taxonomy, $post->post_content has the description, $post->link has the permalink and $post->post_type will contain the name of the taxonomy. If you want to modify the post objects Relevanssi creates from the taxonomies, you can use the relevanssi_taxonomy_term_to_post filter….…empty terms (not linked to any posts) are excluded from the index. If you want to modify that, see relevanssi_hide_empty_terms. What is indexed? Currently, the title of the taxonomy is indexed with the description field. Indexing the other fields isn’t currently possible. Taxonomy pages should be automatically updated in the…

Multisite searches

Multisite search only works in Relevanssi Premium. Free Relevanssi can be installed in multisite environments, but it cannot search across sites. Relevanssi Premium can only support multisite searching across sites in the same multisite network. Relevanssi can’t search across multiple sites that are not in the same multisite installation. Cloud-based……searches, you need to adjust search forms to include a specific parameter that will enable the multisite searching. See “Changes to the search form” below. Changes to search results templates The search results templates require some changes, otherwise, the permalinks will be wrong. Inside the while (have_posts()) loop, add as……to what multisite searching can do. There’s limited access to search parameters. You can use post_type, operator, meta_query, include_attachments and orderby. Taxonomy terms from subsites can cause problems. Searching for taxonomy terms in taxonomies that exist in the current site works: for example searching for categories from different sites works,…

User profile search

…must make WordPress believe it’s getting posts, even though it gets user profiles. This causes some problems, which are fortunately fairly easy to fix with some changes to search results templates. Some problems are already taken care of. Relevanssi contains a filter that should fix the_permalink() for user profiles. It’s……easy to recognize the user profiles. You can test the value of $post->post_type, it’s ‘user’ for user profiles. To make things slightly easier, there’s a filter hook. You can add a filter to relevanssi_user_profile_to_post to make changes to the post object created from the user profile. It has the basic…Relevanssi Premium can search user profiles. So far the following data gets indexed from user profiles: first name, last name, display name and description. If you’re interested in having something else indexed, there’s an option on the options page. Because WordPress only handles posts in the search result pages, Relevanssi…

Direct access to the query engine

Relevanssi can’t be used in any situation, because it checks the presence of search with the is_search() function. This causes some unfortunate limitations and reduces the general usability of the plugin. You can, however, access the query engine directly. There’s a function called relevanssi_do_query(), which can be used to do search queries just about anywhere. Here’s a…