Searching for shop orders is tricky business with WooCommerce. WooCommerce blocks searching the orders. WooCommerce also keeps the order data in many different tables. Because of this complexity, the shop_order post type is not available for indexing. You can enable it by adding this to your theme functions.php: This is not enough, though. The order…
Updating WooCommerce to version 4.4 breaks Relevanssi searches. After updating WooCommerce to version 4.4, Relevanssi searches no longer find results. This problem is caused by changes in WooCommerce. Those who are interested in the details can go read the GitHub issue I created. For those interested in solving the problem, next version of Relevanssi will…
This little filter function works on relevanssi_hits_filter. When a search query is made that matches a SKU (or any other custom field, but SKUs are the most likely scenario here), only results that match the SKU will be returned. In order for this to work, Relevanssi must be set to index the _sku custom field…
Relevanssi can index product and product variation SKUs for WooCommerce products: just add _sku to list of custom fields to index. However, if you want to find the main product when searching for the product variation SKU, you need some extra code using the relevanssi_content_to_index filter hook. Just add this function to the theme functions.php…
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…
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 default WP search underneath. Relevanssi doesn’t do meta field sorting as easily as the default WP…