Knowledge base contains information on how to use Relevanssi. There are lots of features that are documented in the knowledge base. Here's an index to the knowledge base, with all the entries sorted under different topics.
The user manual functions page is also a good place to look at.
Modernize is a neat Premium theme that has a problem with Relevanssi. Relevanssi highlighting can cause problems on Modernize search results pages, with results getting wrong background color. This problem is caused by the way Modernize truncates excerpts to certain length, set in the Modernize settings. It doesn’t care about HTML tags, so Modernize may…
I’m building a directory and would like the oldest posts to automatically display first in the search results, is this possible? I found out how to add a link that the user can click to sort the results but would like an automatic solution. Can you provide code that can be added to the functions.php…
Usually, WordPress supports one category, one tag and one taxonomy in the search, if you use the query variables to set the taxonomies. You can enter multiple taxonomies as parameters to the query, but only the first one is used. If you want to have multiple taxonomies involved, you need……to build a tax_query. The correct format is described in the Codex. Of course, you can’t just pass the array in a query variable, so you’ll have to build it. Here’s how you do a two-taxonomy search. Search form First, we need to add the inputs to the search form….…in the search form code: wp_dropdown_categories( array( ‘name’ => ‘movie_director’, ‘taxonomy’ => ‘director’ ) ); wp_dropdown_categories( array( ‘name’ => ‘movie_actor’, ‘taxonomy’ => ‘actor’ ) ); Introducing the query variables WordPress cleans out unknown query variables for data hygiene reasons. That’s a good thing, but a bit of a complication for…
Hello, I’m using WooCommerce and Relevanssi and they work great. My Site Search only searches Products, however I want to let certain posts appear in the search results. Is there a way to allow certain posts to be in the results? Yes. There are many ways to do this, and…
…the first page on it, and some posts may never appear in results. Here’s a more complicated solution that solves the issue by setting the random number generator seed every hour. Searches within that hour will return the results in the same order. This means pagination will work (unless the…
Co-Authors Plus is a neat plugin that makes it possible to have multiple authors for one post in WordPress. This is a useful feature WordPress doesn’t yet support. Relevanssi only picks up the first author from the post, but making Relevanssi find the other authors as well is very simple, thanks to good design choices…
If Relevanssi Premium causes out-of-memory problems, make sure you have the “Throttle searches” option checked. However, if that doesn’t work and you’re still getting out of memory issues, you can try making the throttle tighter. The limit can be adjusted by adding this line to your site: If necessary, you can adjust the value (250)…
WP e-Commerce is a popular shopping cart plugin for WordPress. This code by Alexander Gieg, added to functions.php for example, makes Relevanssi work better with WP e-Commerce. Source: WP e-Commerce support in Relevanssi
When you have problems with Relevanssi, these are the first steps to take: Make sure you have the latest version of Relevanssi. If not, upgrade. Try deactivating the plugin and reactivating it. Are you using Yoast Local SEO? Read this. Try deleting the plugin and reinstalling it from scratch. If that doesn’t help, then approximately…