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.
Elementor is a popular page builder. It works rather well with Relevanssi, most of the time. Check for e_search_props If the search results come back empty or are restricted to a specific post type, it’s possible Elementor is restricting them. Elementor can hide the query parameters to a single query variable, e_search_props. If that appears…
Relevanssi generally works well with Ultimate Member and can be used to search Ultimate Member profiles. Ultimate Member doesn’t do custom profiles but instead builds upon WordPress user profiles. If you want to change the default /author/ URLs for user profiles in search results to point to the /user/ URLs Ultimate Member uses, that’s easy…
Jules Colle came up with a method of moving the Relevanssi admin search page from under the Dashboard heading to the top level of the admin menu. This function adds an admin_menu action that first uses remove_submenu_page() to remove the existing admin search function and then add_menu_page() to add it again on the top menu…
Relevanssi by default does not consider the search query a phrase, or value posts where the words in the search query appear together. Sometimes people do expect that, especially in AND searches. Relevanssi however does not have the information about the nearby words, so it’s not possible for Relevanssi to factor that in. Relevanssi does…
WP Download Manager is a popular file management plugin for WordPress. It’s unfortunately incompatible with Relevanssi attachment content reading out of the box, as Relevanssi expects the attachments to be stored in the Media Library, and WP Download Manager stores the files outside Media Library. Fortunately, Relevanssi includes the necessary filter hooks that make it…
…sites where an average search result set size is under 500 posts). In larger cases, this can get problematic: using a throttle may cause relevant posts go missing. If throttle leaves out some of the pages in the family tree, those cannot be found. On the other hand, without the…
Relevanssi Premium 2.11 introduces a new feature: multi-part excerpts. There’s a new setting on the Excerpts & Highlights settings tab, “Number of excerpt snippets”, and that lets you define the maximum number of excerpt snippets Relevanssi generates for each post. How does it work This option is only available when the excerpt length is defined…
…and so on. Those functions cannot access anything outside the WordPress installation, whether it’s another WordPress installation, HTML files or external databases. If you still need this… If you really must have Relevanssi access outside data, there’s one way to achieve that: import the data inside your WordPress installation. Create……the WordPress sites must be part of the same installation. It’s not possible to search content that exists in another WordPress installation, not even if it’s on the same server. No outside content Relevanssi is heavily dependent on WordPress methods. When getting posts, Relevanssi uses the get_post() function in WordPress…Short answer: no. Relevanssi can only access WordPress content. For a longer answer, read on. Only within single WP installation Relevanssi only operates within one WordPress installation. Relevanssi Premium supports multisite searching, where the search can return posts from more than one subsite at once, but even in those cases…
A Relevanssi customer asked whether Relevanssi can slow down a site. They have a slow site and their hosting provider had suggested Relevanssi might be the reason, because Relevanssi had a huge table in the site database. That is true – Relevanssi tables can be really big. But they’re not accessed at all except during…
…so it’s something we want to restrict to paying customers. Refunds and a free version are available What if you want to test Relevanssi? The free version from the WordPress.org plugin repository is often enough. If the free version works, the Premium will work too, and vice versa – the…Often users would like to get a free trial of Relevanssi Premium, but we always say no. Why is that? The answer is simple. We offer our customers lots of liberties. Providing a temporary trial use is difficult. Relevanssi customers have liberties We don’t believe in spying on our customers……code base is almost the same for both plugins. You may find out that the free version is good enough for you. It’s quite powerful in itself and can fulfil most needs for a better search. If you need to try out the Premium features, the only way to do…