Difficulties getting started… Earlier versions of Relevanssi Premium miss some database fields in the database declaration, causing trouble. This version will fix the problems. Nasty little bug, and fixing it wasn’t simple – the dbDelta function WordPress uses to fix tables is very cool when it works, but a pain to debug. Download the new…
Very small fix, this version includes the same plugin compatibility fix that’s in 2.7.4 of free Relevanssi. Before the fix, plugins that used shortcodes and queried posts could cause Relevanssi loop to cut short. A strange bug indeed, and one I wouldn’t have found by myself. Bug reports from users are a blessing.
I just committed Relevanssi 2.7.4 to the plugin repository. This version has the following changes: Improved the fallback to fuzzy search if no hits are found with regular search. AND searches sometimes failed to work properly, causing unnecessary fallback to OR search. Fixed. When using WPML, it’s now possible to choose if the searches are limited…
The first version of Relevanssi Premium is out now. For certain reasons it’s already version 1.1. Here’s what the changelog says about this version: Multisite WordPress support. See Multisite searches in Knowledge Base for instructions on how to search multiple blogs. Improved the fallback to fuzzy search if no hits……instructions to add a category dropdown to search form weren’t quite correct. They are now. It’s now possible to assign weights for post types. User profiles can be indexed and searched (see User profile search in Knowledge Base). Some of these (fuzzy search fallback, AND search, the stopword fix, WPML…
…other hand, you can adjust the settings for each blog. Enabling the multisite search There are several ways to enable multisite searching. If you want all searches to be multisite searches, you can enable multisite searching from the Relevanssi searching settings. If you want only some searches to be multisite……searches, you need to adjust search forms to include a specific parameter that will enable the multisite searching. See “Changes to the search form” below. Changes to search results templates The search results templates require some changes, otherwise, the permalinks will be wrong. Inside the while (have_posts()) loop, add as……to what multisite searching can do. There’s limited access to search parameters. You can use post_type, operator, meta_query, include_attachments and orderby. Taxonomy terms from subsites can cause problems. Searching for taxonomy terms in taxonomies that exist in the current site works: for example searching for categories from different sites works,…
If you’re using category restriction dropdown on your search form, here’s a bit of code that you can add to your search results template to show how many hits were found and what the category is. If no category was selected, this’ll just show how many hits were found. <?php……the category is. If no category was selected, this’ll just show how many hits were found. <?php $cat = get_cat_name( $wp_query->query_vars[‘cat’] ); $s = $wp_query->query_vars[‘s’]; echo $wp_query->found_posts . ” results found with ‘ $s'”; if ( ! empty( $cat ) ) { echo ” in the ‘$cat’ category“; } ?>…
…easy to recognize the user profiles. You can test the value of $post->post_type, it’s ‘user’ for user profiles. To make things slightly easier, there’s a filter hook. You can add a filter to relevanssi_user_profile_to_post to make changes to the post object created from the user profile. It has the basic…Relevanssi Premium can search user profiles. So far the following data gets indexed from user profiles: first name, last name, display name and description. If you’re interested in having something else indexed, there’s an option on the options page. Because WordPress only handles posts in the search result pages, Relevanssi……must make WordPress believe it’s getting posts, even though it gets user profiles. This causes some problems, which are fortunately fairly easy to fix with some changes to search results templates. Some problems are already taken care of. Relevanssi contains a filter that should fix the_permalink() for user profiles. It’s…
Relevanssi adds a shortcode to help making links to search results. That way users can easily find more information about a given subject from your blog. The syntax is simple: John Doe This will make the text John Doe a link to search results for John Doe. In case you…
Relevanssi stores the relevance score it uses to sort results in the $post variable. Just add something like <?php echo “Score: $post->relevance_score”; ?> to your search results template to display the relevance score….
You can specify date limits on searches with by_date search parameter. Here’s a link you can add to your search results page to offer your visitor the ability to restrict the search results to last day: <?php echo ‘<p><a href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(‘url’) . ‘?s=’ . get_search_query() . ‘&by_date=1d”>results from the…