Relevanssi Light

Enjoy our lightweight variant of Relevanssi.

Relevanssi Light is a lightweight version of Relevanssi that utilizes the built-in full-text indexing capabilities of your database server (MySQL or MariaDB). This approach delivers fast search performance with surprisingly relevant results while keeping resource usage and configuration very simple.
However, because it relies on the database’s native full-text search, Relevanssi Light is not as customizable or versatile as the standard Relevanssi plugin. Advanced features such as fine-tuned weighting, phrase recognition, and extensive synonym support are limited or not available.

Relevanssi Light on WP.org

Relevanssi Light on GitHub

When to use Relevanssi Light?

You don’t need advanced customization and want to keep configuration simple.

You are looking for fast search performance with minimal server resources.

You just want significantly better search results without complex setup.

You don’t need custom excerpts or highlighted search terms.

You prefer a lightweight solution that relies on your database’s native full-text search.

When to use Relevanssi Premium?

You need to index much more content, including terms, authors, user profiles, taxonomy archives, and attachment content.

You want fully customizable excerpts that highlight the searched terms in context.

You require complete control over the indexing process and search result ranking.

You need advanced features like synonyms, synonyms support, and fine-tuned weighting.

You want the most accurate and relevant search results possible, even on large or complex websites.

Instructions

Add more content to the index for Relevanssi Light

If you want to add more content, you may need to override the relevanssi_light_update_post_data() function. It’s pluggable so that you can override it from a must-use plugin. Here’s an example plugin that will include the post author’s name in the full-text index.

Disabling Relevanssi Light for a specific post type

Here’s how you can disable Relevanssi Light for a particular post type. The example is shop_order from WooCommerce: you’ll need this if you use the legacy order storage. Otherwise, Relevanssi Light will stop the admin order search from working.

Questions? Issues?

The official support for the plugin is available in the WordPress.org support forums.

The plugin is also available on GitHub. The issue tracker is an excellent place to post technical questions and suggestions.

WordPress.org Forum