Relevanssi Premium 2.16 added proximity sorting to search results. That means you can sort the search results by geographic location. Instead of having the most relevant matches first, you can have the nearest results first. There are many ways to use geolocation in WordPress. The way Relevanssi does this is flexible but requires some work.…
If you’re getting low-quality results and the weight settings are not affecting the results, the first thing to check is to see if your results are coming from Relevanssi in the first place. That’s easy to check: disable Relevanssi and see if the results change. If the results change, they’re coming from Relevanssi. If the…
If best results don’t come up first and changing weighting settings doesn’t seem to make any difference, there couple of things you can do. Is Relevanssi active? The first thing is to check if the results are actually provided by Relevanssi. If you disable Relevanssi, do the results change? Do you see Relevanssi-generated excerpts? There…
Many WooCommerce users use search sorting that allows users to sort by popularity or price. Unfortunately, while Relevanssi works fine with WooCommerce, those sorts do not work. Relevanssi doesn’t know about price or popularity, and the sorting assumes there’s a default WP search underneath. Relevanssi doesn’t do meta field sorting as easily as the default…
Relevanssi Premium 1.13 is finally out. The new version includes fixes for WP 4.0 compatilibity, a bunch of bug fixes and couple of new features. As for the new features, Relevanssi can now pin posts on top of the search results based on keywords. To pin a post, go to the post edit page and…
Relevanssi 3.3.6 was released on Friday, and today followed by 3.3.7. You can see the release notes of 3.3.6 below. 3.3.7 just fixes a new incompatibility with bbPress, probably triggered by WordPress 4.0 update. Relevanssi handles taxonomy terms in search better. The change requires a reindexing. Fix in indexing: Relevanssi will now bypass the global…