Relevanssi has a minimum word length setting that is set to three characters. Any one- or two-letter words are not indexed unless you change this setting from the Relevanssi advanced indexing settings. Sometimes it would be helpful to ignore short words but to index one- and two-digit numbers. You can do that with a bit…
By default, the search ignores German umlauts. Searching for “uber” will also find “über” and so on. This ignorance is not a Relevanssi feature but instead governed by your database. The default database collation WordPress uses (utf8mb4_unicode_ci) ignores all accents, including umlauts. If you want the search to care about umlauts, you can change the…
A Relevanssi user asked about Italian plurals on the Relevanssi support forums. The best answer is to use the Relevanssi Snowball Stemmer; it supports Italian and can handle more than plurals. You can add a function to handle just the plurals, though. Add this to your site: This function checks each word, and if it…
…problems, the lack of distinct words in these languages is a problem for Relevanssi. Relevanssi works by splitting the posts into words at spaces and then counting how many times those words appear. Since Chinese and Japanese texts don’t have spaces separating words, Relevanssi can’t do this. As a result,……Relevanssi can search for Chinese and Japanese characters or character sequences, especially if you enable one-character words and inside-word matching in Relevanssi settings. Still, since the weights for the posts are essentially random, the results won’t be of high quality. Unfortunately, making the search work well in Chinese, Japanese and……Relevanssi can handle just about anything you throw at it – you can even search for emojis. UTF8 is the standard in WordPress, and you generally don’t have to worry about it. Words: bad news for Chinese and Japanese While Relevanssi can read Chinese, Japanese and many other characters without…
By default, Relevanssi does not index HTML comments inside your posts. Relevanssi removes all HTML tags before indexing, and HTML comments (<!– like this –>) are counted as HTML tags. If you have content inside comments that you want to be indexed, you need to modify the punctuation control –…
A new version of Premium is here, with cool new features. Taxonomy pages (tags, categories, custom taxonomies) can now be indexed and searched. Short search terms don’t crash the search anymore. There are fixes to the user search as well, including a new option to index additional fields. Relevanssi now uses search result caching system…