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…
Starting from versions 2.4.0 (Premium) and 4.3.0 (Free), Relevanssi doesn’t index posts that have been marked “noindex” in the Yoast SEO settings (“Allow search engines to show this Post in search results?”). If the “noindex” setting is in the default value or set to explicit “yes”, Relevanssi indexes the post. If you want Relevanssi to…
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…
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…
Update: This is now Relevanssi default behaviour, starting from Premium 2.3.0 and Free 4.3.1. For disabling this feature, see Yoast SEO compatibility. If you use Yoast SEO to mark posts “noindex”, you may want to have Relevanssi deindex those posts as well. It’s easy to do using the relevanssi_do_not_index hook. Just add this function to…
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…