Related posts are a popular feature, as it keeps the users engaged and offers them a new direction to continue to within your site, keeping the users on your site for a longer time. Many plugins do related posts, but many have issues. Generating related posts can be a performance drain; the related posts may…
Relevanssi Premium is a proud sponsor of the inaugural WordCamp Nordic. There have been several WordCamps in Nordic countries, but this is the first one that gathers WordPress enthusiasts from all Nordic countries under one roof. The event is in Helsinki on March 8th, with a Contributor day on March 7th. There are two tracks…
Total is a popular theme from WPExplorer. It mostly works fine with Relevanssi, with just one little issue. Total sets the post_type parameter for all searches to include all public post types. This is fine for most cases, but if you want to include user profiles or taxonomy terms in the search results, Total will…
Relevanssi Premium 2.2.4.2 is a small bug fix, again fixing unexpected little details for the related posts feature. There was some deprecated JS code in the plugin, which caused issues for users who didn’t have the migration code on their site. Here’s the full changelog: Fixes couple of JS issues with the metabox scripts. Improves…
Version 2.2.4.1 of Relevanssi Premium fixes the problems the new Related Posts feature had. Here’s the changelog: It’s now possible to disable thumbnails and titles for related posts. The related posts custom template is looked for in the right place. Metabox buttons work without Gutenberg. Drafts shouldn’t appear in the related posts anymore. Choosing the…
Version 2.2.4 is out now, featuring a bunch of bug fixes, new features and what’s best, a new Related Posts feature! The related posts are based on the Relevanssi index, and the feature offers lots of control over details and lots of flexibility, as is usual for Relevanssi. How good the results are, depends a…
By default, Relevanssi does not index HTML comments inside your posts. Relevanssi removes all HTML tags before indexing, and HTML comments (<!– like this –>) are counted as HTML tags. If you have content inside comments that you want to be indexed, you need to modify the punctuation control – which is responsible for removing…
Relevanssi works fine with Toolset, thanks to a lot of compatibility code the makers of Toolset have included in it to make it work with Relevanssi. However, everything doesn’t work automatically without modifications. The key thing to notice with Toolset is that query variables and filters don’t work the way you’d expect. Because of the…
Sometimes unexpected things happen when releasing updates for Relevanssi Premium. Version 2.2.3 passed all our tests with flying colours and during our local testing showed no signs of trouble. However, once it was released, bug reports started trickling in – incompatibility with the Redirection plugin (which we’ve never used), problems with Internet Explorer (which we…
2.2.3 adds a new Premium feature: redirects. This feature allows you to define keywords that will be automatically redirect the user to a certain page. While this feature is only available for Premium users, this update is still very much worth the while for the users of free Relevanssi. For starters, there’s a fix for…