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Relevanssi is generally well compatible with FacetWP, which provides advanced filtering and faceting capabilities for the search. There are, however, some situations where Relevanssi and FacetWP do not work well. Make sure you are using the Relevanssi integration plugin for FacetWP. It covers most of the problems. Disabling the FacetWP integration In some cases, however,…
Envira Gallery is a gallery plugin for WordPress. Since it uses a custom post type for the galleries, it works fine with Relevanssi. However, the gallery post type doesn’t have any information about the actual images: no titles, tags or other details like that. Since the images are uploaded in the Media Library and are…
Metabox is a suite of plugins to handle custom fields. It seems like a solid competitor for Advanced Custom Fields. There’s nothing particularly Relevanssi-unfriendly about it, since it uses custom fields to store the data and Relevanssi can read custom fields. MB Relationships MB Relationships is an extension to Metabox that can be used to…
I set up a short coded search box to search my Learndash e-course for one specific category only: [ searchform ld_topic_category=”156″ ] It works perfectly except one thing: if no results show, it takes you to the default WordPress page and presents you with the standard search box that no longer searches category 156. This…
…results You can also use Relevanssi spam blocking to block bots from search results pages. This can be useful: search engine bots can hit your site search a lot, with little benefit. According to Google’s John Muller, Google doesn’t want your internal site search pages in the index. They create……use this code snippet. It will add the required rule in your robots.txt file: add_action( ‘do_robots’, ‘rlv_block_bots_robots_txt’ ); function rlv_block_bots_robots_txt() { ?> User-agent: * Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /?s= <?php } That should keep the search engine crawlers from visiting your search results. If you want to make sure, you can…Spam searches are a common feature on WordPress sites. Spam bots make lots of useless queries. They hope sites display the search queries somewhere, providing links to spam sites. This is unpleasant, clogs up the search logs and wastes resources. Relevanssi Premium introduced a new spam blocking feature in version…
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…
Using Relevanssi with WP Event Manager requires you to adjust the search process in WP Event Manager a bit. Fortunately, the plugin has good filters you can use. Add this to your site: This will adjust the event listing query arguments to switch on the Relevanssi flag, causing Relevanssi to process the results. This way…
Martfury is a WooCommerce theme that comes with a built-in dropdown search. That’s great, except that as usual the dropdown search doesn’t work with Relevanssi. Fortunately the search is hooked into place, so it’s possible to hook it out and replace it with something new. That might not be necessary, though. The theme developer has…
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You may notice that enabling Relevanssi custom excerpts breaks all autoembeds (things like Youtube video embeds) on search results pages. That’s done on purpose, because the autodiscovery of those embeds can be a proper performance killer if the search results include lots of embedded content. Thus, Relevanssi switches the feature off, considering it’s not commonly…