The relevanssi_indexing_restriction filter hook is often the best way to restrict what goes in the Relevanssi index and what not. There’s also relevanssi_do_not_index, which is also a fine way to approach this and is often easier to apply when you’re talking about blocking individual posts, but for larger exclusions, relevanssi_indexing_restriction is better. Extensive use of…
Is there a way to exclude anything before 2016 from search results? Yes. There are two approaches to this. If you never want to see anything old in the results, it’s best to filter in indexing. Add this to your theme functions.php. If, on the other hand, you only want to apply this filter in…
If you have events on your site, you might not want to show the past events in the search. This is easy to do with Relevanssi. It can be done in two ways: either you block the past events in indexing or in searching. In most cases, the best solution is to do both. Blocking…
It’s been a while since the previous Relevanssi Premium update, and that’s why there’s now a pile of small improvements in Relevanssi. There are no major bugs to fix in this version. One of the biggest improvements comes to user indexing: that was downright impossible with a large enough user base, as was found out…
Relevanssi by default shows out-of-stock and excluded from catalog WooCommerce products in the search results, but hides those set to excluded from search (before 2.2.2 and 4.1.2 the default behaviour was to show all products). It is quite easy to make Relevanssi not to display hidden products in the results. The best way is to…
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…
Relevanssi has a category exclusion feature built in, but that only works for basic categories and not any other taxonomies. You can use tax_query to restrict the searches as well, but that’s more complicated than adjusting the setting in Relevanssi settings. However, if the exclusion is permanent, it’s best done in the indexing level. That…
A site I’m working with has a handful of “protected” posts (password required to view). For various reasons, we don’t want to show these in search results. While there is no excerpt shown, I’d prefer for people to not even know they exist. Relevanssi sees protected posts as public posts (because their post status is…
The free version of Relevanssi got a long-delayed update, and it turned out to be a major update, probably the biggest ever in the history of Relevanssi. Just look at the changelog… Most of these are, of course, familiar to the Premium users. WORD OF WARNING: This is a major update, with lots of changes…