Continue reading Increasing weight for HTML tags

Increasing weight for HTML tags

…content inside those tags multiple times in the post content (as determined by the numbers in the $weightings array). This multiplication will increase the weight of those words in the Relevanssi index because Relevanssi counts how many times each word appears in each document. Thanks to Greg Perham from Swing……( < $weight– ) { $content .= ” $el_content”; } } } } return $content; } This code goes through the post content during the indexing with the relevanssi_post_content filter hook. When it finds content that appears inside the HTML tags specified in the $weightings array, it will add the…Relevanssi ignores HTML tags when indexing posts. If you want to give more weight to words that appear in specific HTML tags (like headings), here is one way to do that. You can add this filter function on your site to the theme functions.php or in a code snippet: add_filter(…

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Indexing image alt texts

Relevanssi by default ignores image alt texts (and other tag attributes). That’s often the right thing to do because alt texts aren’t visible to users. Finding a post with a search term that only appears in an alt text may confuse a user. If your alt texts are well crafted, they may help search. It’s…

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Continue reading Visual Composer: Indexing headings

Visual Composer: Indexing headings

Relevanssi doesn’t by default index the headings in Visual Composer. The vcex_heading shortcode Visual Composer for the headings stores the heading text inside a shortcode attribute. By default, Relevanssi does not index shortcode attributes. In this case, indexing the shortcode attribute is necessary. Fortunately, it’s easy to fix with a simple function added to your…

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Visual Composer: Indexing Raw HTML elements

Visual Composer and WP Bakery have a Raw HTML element that can be used to add HTML code to your pages. By default, this content is stored in an encoded format Relevanssi can’t read. Fortunately, the encoding is simple Base64 encoding that is easy to read. So, in order to read the contents of the…

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Continue reading Why is a post type excluded from search?

Why is a post type excluded from search?

In the list of post types to index in the Relevanssi indexing settings tab there’s a column “Excluded from search”, which has a value of “yes” or “no” for each post type. What does this mean, and why does the value remain “yes” even if you set Relevanssi to index that post type? This column…

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Continue reading Indexing only attributes from shortcodes

Indexing only attributes from shortcodes

…do I go about this? – Duke at Remove shortcode but keep content in X parameter You can’t do this using the Relevanssi shortcode removal because that’s a binary operation: the whole shortcode is kept or removed, and there’s no way to keep only part of the shortcode. However, you…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……the “text” attribute from the shortcode * * @param string $content Post content * * @return string Post content with the shortcode replaced with just the “text” attribute content. */ function rlv_shortcode_attribute( $content ) { return preg_replace( ‘/\ /im’, ‘\1’, $content ); } Since this particular case was about a…

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Indexing product codes with and without spaces

A Relevanssi Premium customer had a problem with product codes. The codes are in the format “ABC 100”, a group of letters and digits with a space in between. Users may search for the codes without the space, so the post should be found with “ABC 100” or “ABC100”. The product codes don’t appear in…

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Continue reading Excluding old content from the search

Excluding old content from the search

Is there a way to exclude anything before 2016 from search results? Yes. There are two approaches to this. If you never want to see anything old in the results, it’s best to filter in indexing with relevanssi_indexing_restriction. Add this to your site: Note that the restriction explains which posts are included in the index,…

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Indexing image captions for the posts

The use case is I run several newspapers, and the “caption” field when uploading media is where the journalists put the photographer credit. We need to be able to index the photographer bylines, but ideally would want to return the story/commentary where their image was used, not the image itself. If you want to index…

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