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.
A Relevanssi Premium customer bumped into a weird problem with CM Tooltip Glossary (and probably Elementor). Using Elementor, CM Tooltip Glossary and Relevanssi custom excerpts together caused the search results to break in an unusual way: each page of the search results showed the same results. I couldn’t figure out what’s causing this, but it…
Ultimate FAQs is a FAQ plugin that can create FAQs. It has a search, and enabling Relevanssi may break that search. There are two ways to fix these problems. Using Relevanssi The search comes up blank because Relevanssi takes over (it’s a regular search, after all), and the ufaq post type is not indexed. Index…
Unyson is a free drag & drop framework. It stores the content in a custom field fw:opt:ext:pb:page-builder:json. While Relevanssi can index custom fields, the Unyson custom field is a JSON object that’s hard for Relevanssi to index. Fortunately, you can add a function on the relevanssi_custom_field_value filter hook to modify the custom field value before…
Here’s a different approach to WPML searching. By default, you have two options. You can include posts in all languages in the results, or you can only use the current language. This solution checks for matches also in other languages. If Relevanssi finds any, this script then replaces them with the translated posts. You get…
Searching for shop orders is tricky with WooCommerce. WooCommerce blocks searching the orders. WooCommerce also keeps the order data in many different tables. Because of this complexity, the shop_order post type is not available for indexing. You can enable it by adding this to your site: add_filter( ‘option_relevanssi_index_post_types’, function( $post_types……$status_array; } Now the orders are available in the Relevanssi admin search. They are still excluded from the front end search. Relevanssi indexes very little information about the order by default. You only get the order date. WooCommerce stores the items in the order in wp_woocommerce_order_items. Some stats about the……orders: add_filter( ‘relevanssi_content_to_index’, ‘rlv_index_order_content’, 10, 2 ); function rlv_index_order_content( $content, $post ) { if ( ‘shop_order’ === $post->post_type ) { global $wpdb; // Order number. $content .= ‘ ‘ . $post->ID; // Product names. $item_names = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT order_item_name FROM {$wpdb->prefix}woocommerce_order_items WHERE order_id = %d”, $post->ID ) ); $content…
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…
In general, searches ignore accents, which is generally a good idea: for example in French, the difference between e and é isn’t huge, and it’s fine if the search engine isn’t too picky about which is which. However, there are cases where there is a big difference: for example in Finnish, the letter ä isn’t…
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…
This is a very common request: “How do I show the most popular searches in a widget or on a page?” Relevanssi does not have such a feature built in, and the reason for that is twofold: First, on many sites, the most common searches are either spam or boring. On this site, I use…
In regular expressions, ^ can be used to match the beginning of the line and $ to match the end of the line. For example, ^ban will match banana, but not urban, while ban$ matches urban, but not banana. These are called anchoring operators. By default, Relevanssi matches either beginning or the end of the…