Reasonable expectations for Relevanssi searching speeds are measured in seconds. Relevanssi does not generally return results in milliseconds. On the other hand, the searches shouldn’t take more than few seconds in most cases. Multisite searches are a different thing: even if the searching is reasonably fast, searching across many sites will always be slow. Doing…
Versions 2.27.5 (Premium) and 4.24.4 (free) added extra security to highlighting search terms in post content. Before that, an attacker with contributor access could inject malicious content in the posts and the highlighting would then trigger that. This is now fixed, but the fix comes with a cost: the post content is passed through the…
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…
We have a privacy policy that covers your use of this web site and our customer data use. However, if you’re interested in how using Relevanssi affects the GDPR compliance of your own site, here we have answers for you. In general, Relevanssi doesn’t store any information about users and doesn’t share any information outside…
Update: In Premium 2.15.0 and later versions, you can do spam blocking from Relevanssi settings. Just navigate to the Spam Block tab on Relevanssi settings! If your search logs are full of spam with repeating keywords, you’re being targeted by a spammer. Their goal is to get visibility to their malicious URLs, hoping Google will…