Relevanssi ignores HTML tags when indexing posts. If you want to give more weight to words that appear in specific HTML tags (like headings), here is one way to do that. You can add this filter function on your site to the theme functions.php or in a code snippet: add_filter(……’relevanssi_post_content’, ‘rlv_html_tag_boost’ ); function rlv_html_tag_boost( $content ) { $weightings = array( ‘h1’ => 5, ‘h2’ => 4, ‘h3’ => 2, ‘strong’ => 1, ); foreach ( $weightings as $tag => $weight ) { if ( preg_match_all( “#<$tag.*?>(.*?)</$tag>#”, $content, $elements ) ) { foreach ( $elements[1] as $el_content ) { while……( < $weight– ) { $content .= ” $el_content”; } } } } return $content; } This code goes through the post content during the indexing with the relevanssi_post_content filter hook. When it finds content that appears inside the HTML tags specified in the $weightings array, it will add the…

Relevanssi by default ignores image alt texts (and other tag attributes). That’s often the right thing to do because alt texts aren’t visible to users. Finding a post with a search term that only appears in an alt text may confuse a user. If your alt texts are well crafted, they may help search. It’s…