Tag: attachments | Relevanssi

May 18, 2022 by Mikko Saari

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 some reason, that function is…

Indexing and searching PDFs in WordPress

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 service on a separate server.…

Controlling attachment types in index

Relevanssi lets you index attachments – not their contents, but the names and descriptions. But perhaps you only want to index a particular type of attachment? Relevanssi settings don’t have any control over that, it’s either all attachments or nothing. It is possible to choose which kinds of attachments are indexed. It is done with the…

Indexing attachment file names

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 index attachment file names. For…