Tag: attachments | Relevanssi

September 26, 2023 by Mikko Saari

Indexing attachments from File blocks

…this function to your site to index the contents of files added with the File block: add_filter( ‘relevanssi_block_to_render’, function( $block ) { if ( ‘core/file‘ === $block[‘blockName’] ) { $file_id = $block[‘attrs’][‘id’]; $file_content = get_post_meta( $file_id, ‘_relevanssi_pdf_content’, true ); if ( $file_content ) { $block[‘innerContent’][0] = $file_content; } } return…The Relevanssi attachment indexing assumes the files are connected to the posts using the WordPress attachment mechanism. What if you don’t use that but instead add the files to the pages using the File block in the block editor? That’s not a problem, but it requires some extra code. Add……); if ( $file_content ) { $content = preg_replace( ‘#’ . preg_quote( $matches[0], ‘#’ ) . ‘#’, $file_content, $content ); } } return $content; }, 10, 2 ); This filter uses relevanssi_pre_excerpt_content and replaces the file block comment in the post content with the file contents from the custom field….

Attachment file content cannot be saved

The Relevanssi error “Could not save the file content to the custom field” means that Relevanssi has managed to read the attachment contents but cannot save them to the _relevanssi_pdf_content custom field Relevanssi uses to store the attachment contents. Relevanssi uses the update_post_meta() function to save the content, and for…

Indexing and searching PDFs in WordPress

…service on a separate server. Which PDF files can you index? Since Relevanssi is a WordPress search, Relevanssi operates on WordPress posts (including all the different post types). So, to have Relevanssi index your PDFs, they need to be WordPress posts. That’s fortunately really simple: upload your PDF files to……the Media library, and they become posts with the post type of attachment. Relevanssi can only parse and read PDF files that contain text. If the PDF file is all images, Relevanssi cannot read it. An easy way to check is to try to select the text in a PDF…Relevanssi Premium users have asked for PDF indexing since day one, and version 2.0 finally introduced this feature. Coming up with a fast and reliable method hasn’t been easy, but we’re pretty proud of what we have now. Our PDF indexer doesn’t tax your server as it runs as a…

Controlling attachment types in index

….= ‘ No images’; return $restriction; } Only PDFs This function will only index PDF attachments, and nothing else. add_filter( ‘relevanssi_indexing_restriction’, ‘rlv_only_pdfs’ ); function rlv_only_pdfs( $restriction ) { global $wpdb; $restriction[‘mysql’] .= ” AND post.ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = ‘attachment’ AND post_mime_type != ‘application/pdf‘ )…

Indexing attachment file names

…( ‘attachment’ === $post->post_type ) { $content .= ‘ ‘ . basename( $post->guid ); } return $content; } Notice that by default Relevanssi replaces periods with spaces, so “sample.pdf” is indexed as “sample pdf”. That should not be a problem, as also in searching “sample.pdf” becomes “sample pdf”. However, if…Relevanssi has been working nicely for the normal usecase. But how does one setup indexing of attachment files. When someone searches by a file name or an extension like pdf, there are no results. I have enabled ‘attachment’ at Relevanssi ‘Indexing options’ and still there are no results. Relevanssi doesn’t…