Knowledge Base

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.

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Features

Can Relevanssi access content outside WordPress?
Click tracking
Direct access to the query engine
Index custom field contents
Indexing and searching PDFs in WordPress
Multi-part excerpts
Multisite searches
Pinning posts
Popular searches
Proximity sorting
Related Posts
Spam search blocking
Target specific part of the post
Taxonomy archive search
User profile search
Wildcard matching

Debugging

Debugging indexing problems
Debugging Relevanssi searching issues
Debugging with Query Monitor
Menu problems in multisite search
Most important Relevanssi debugging trick
Pinning and exclusion doesn't work for custom post types in Gutenberg
Relevanssi indexes excluded posts
Results are in strange order

Indexing

10Web Photo Gallery
ACF: Filtering custom fields by type
ACF: Indexing ACF fields for taxonomy terms
Blocking pre and code tags
Controlling attachment types in index
Excluding old content from the search
Excluding protected posts
How to index parent categories
Increasing weight for HTML tags
Index custom field contents
Index only short numbers
Indexing and searching PDFs in WordPress
Indexing attachment file names
Indexing custom post statuses
Indexing embedded PDFs for the parent post
Indexing fails? Check max_allowed_packet!
Indexing HTML comments
Indexing image alt texts
Indexing image captions for the posts
Indexing only attributes from shortcodes
Indexing Polylang Pro synced posts
Indexing post slugs
Indexing private custom fields for admins only
Indexing product codes with and without spaces
Indexing term slugs
Indexing the post ID
Indexing trashed posts
Indexing usermeta fields in Relevanssi
Indexing with a cron job
Polylang: Bilingual search
Reading wpDataTables imported tables
Restricting the indexing to particular user roles
Utf8mb4 charset and index problems
Visual Composer: Indexing headings
Visual Composer: Indexing Raw HTML elements
Why is a post type excluded from search?
WooCommerce: Indexing product variation SKUs for main product

Search results

Adding a custom field filter in the search
Adding a search form in the navigation menu
Adding extra boost for exact title matches
Adding extra weight to AND results in an OR search
Auto-redirecting with one search result
Boosting shorter posts with higher keyword density
Category filter for search results pages
Category title in the search results page
Custom weighing with relevanssi_match and relevanssi_results
Filter search results by date
Filtering results by category
Forced phrase search with fallback
How to block searches without a search term
How to display relevancy score
Integrating Koko Analytics stats
Modifying the search form on the fly
Multi-part excerpts
Only return exact title matches if possible
Ordering search results by date
Partial matches to just one custom field
Put sticky posts first in results
Related searches feature
Restrict search by author from the search query
Restricting the search for non-logged-in users
Scroll result page to the search term
Search form: Search only in titles
Search results breakdown by type
Search results in random order
Showing only one recurring event
Showing the number of search results
Sorting search results
Using AND and NOT for Boolean operators
Using multiple custom taxonomies
WooCommerce: Return only exact matches for SKU searches

Filter hooks

Adding direct links to outside pages to search results
Adding extra boost for exact title matches
Adjusting search throttle
Auto-redirecting with one search result
Automatic redirects to category archives
Blocking pre and code tags
Boosting shorter posts with higher keyword density
Controlling attachment types in index
Custom weighing with relevanssi_match and relevanssi_results
Different fuzzy search setting on different searches
Disabling Relevanssi
Exact matches for short search terms
Excluding old content from the search
Forced phrase search with fallback
How to include specific posts
Indexing only attributes from shortcodes
Indexing product codes with and without spaces
Integrating Koko Analytics stats
Moving the admin search page
Partial matches to just one custom field
Redirecting email searches to the login page
Relevanssi breaks autoembeds on result pages
Restrict search by author from the search query
Restricting Did you mean suggestions to one post type
Restricting the indexing to particular user roles
Restricting the search for non-logged-in users
Support for ^ and $ anchoring operators
Using AND and NOT for Boolean operators
Using multiple custom taxonomies
Using phrases in Related posts searches
Using Relevanssi in wp_link_query
Using Relevanssi without a search term
WooCommerce: Return only exact matches for SKU searches
WP Download Manager

Languages and characters

German umlauts
Italian plurals
Relevanssi and languages
Search is ignoring accents
Searching Bible verses
Simple French plurals

Query variables

Changing the number of search results displayed
Natural-language date queries
Searching between dates
Searching for all descendants of a page
Setting post_type to page doesn't work

Performance and security

Effect of Relevanssi on page speed
GDPR Compliance
Keyword-based search blocking

Shortcodes and tools

Relevanssi Premium as a Composer package
Search shortcode
The search form shortcode

Plugin compatibility

10Web Photo Gallery
ACF: Field names appearing in excerpts
ACF: Filtering custom fields by type
ACF: Indexing ACF fields for taxonomy terms
ACF: Indexing File field title
ACF: Indexing files from File fields
ACF: Indexing relationship content
Ajax Load More
bbPress: Indexing topics and replies
bbPress: Private Groups support
Brizy Pro
Chamber Dashboard Business Directory
CM Tooltip Glossary
Co-authors Plus
CodeMirror Blocks
Download Monitor: Index PDF content for parent page
Elementor
Envira Gallery
Events Calendar: Remove past events from search
FacetWP
FileBird: Filtering attachments by folder
Gmedia photo gallery tags
Indexing Polylang Pro synced posts
Indexing WPML synced posts
Infinite Scroll from Jetpack
Integrating Koko Analytics stats
Issues with post order plugins
Make Relevanssi notice WooCommerce stock changes
Membermouse
MemberPress Downloads add-on
Metabox
Oxygen and Ninja Tables
Polylang attachment searching
Polylang: Bilingual search
PostX Pro
Profile Builder Pro
Reading wpDataTables imported tables
SearchWP Live Ajax Search
The Events Calendar: The event search
Toolset Views
Ultimate FAQs
Ultimate Member
Unyson
User Access Manager
Visual Composer: Indexing headings
Visual Composer: Indexing Raw HTML elements
Wishlist Member: Sorting the posts by membership levels
WooCommerce: Hidden products in search
WooCommerce: Indexing product variation SKUs for main product
WooCommerce: Popularity and price sorting
WooCommerce: Return only exact matches for SKU searches
WooCommerce: Searching for orders
WP All Import
WP Download Manager
WP e-Commerce
WP Event Manager
WP Job Manager
WPML: Category exclusions
WPML: Replacing posts with translations
YITH Badge Management
Yoast Local SEO
Yoast SEO

Theme compatibility

Avada
BeTheme
Divi
Elementor
Flatsome
Genesis
Gutenberg Full Site Editing
Martfury
Modernize
OceanWP
Oxygen and Ninja Tables
Riode
ThemeCo
Total

March 12, 2011January 19, 2021 by Mikko Saari

Showing the number of search results

If you want to show the number of search results found on the search results template, you can find the value in the variable $wp_query->found_posts. Just add <?php echo ‘<p>Found ‘ . $wp_query->found_posts . ‘ hits.</p>’; ?> in your search results template. In case that produces no results, try introducing the global $wp_query variable like…