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Mikhailo Fashchevskiy

Relevanssi turns the standard WordPress search into a powerful tool. It ranks results by relevance, supports fuzzy search, and can search comments, custom fields, attachments, and more. It is especially useful for sites with dynamic content.

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Nick Matthaiou

Relevanssi displays results based on relevance rather than date. It enhances the search form with ‘Did you mean?’ suggestions and supports advanced indexing. This makes finding content significantly easier on complex websites.

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WP All Import Team

Relevanssi provides improved relevance, more comprehensive indexing, and a customizable search algorithm compared to native WordPress search. The free version is feature-rich and works well with WooCommerce and custom fields. It is a solid choice for content-heavy websites.

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OxygenBuilder Team

Relevanssi excels at indexing content that the default WordPress search misses. It delivers much more relevant results and offers extensive customization options. The free version already provides strong functionality for most sites.

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WPLift Team

Relevanssi is easy to use and highly configurable. It integrates seamlessly with the standard search widget and is particularly strong for large websites with complex taxonomies. It allows precise control over the search algorithm for better-targeted results.

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Kevin Muldoon

Relevanssi gives complete control over the WordPress search and solves common issues like irrelevant results or missing custom post types. The free version is already very capable, with a premium upgrade available for additional features.

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Johnathon Williams

Relevanssi is the established free option focused on relevance. The free version dramatically improves search quality with relevance sorting and fuzzy search. It is a good choice for budget-conscious projects and smaller to medium-sized sites.

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Firsh from LetsWP

After testing several alternatives, Relevanssi stands out as the recommended free solution. It replaces the native search with a more relevant and configurable engine and can index custom post types effectively.

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Matt H

Relevanssi customer service was fantastic. When the project I was working on got cancelled shortly after purchasing Relevanssi Premium, they were quick to provide me with a full refund without any hassle at all. Thank you Mikko and the Relevanssi team.

Bart / NL34

I wanted to boost the regular search function for a website that
contains many documents. I wanted to achieve that searching could be
performed much more accurately and visitors are served faster. For this
I bought the Relevanssi premium plugin. I received fantastic and fast
help for the installation. I strongly recommend going a step further and
buy the premium version!

Nancy Hildebrandt

I’d just like to give a shout out to how awesome this plugin is (Premium version). I have a site with pages, standard posts and a custom post for a document library where a couple gigs of PDFs are stored on AWS S3 using another plugin, and Relevanssi does a full-text index of all of it and returns context-sensitive results in less than a second. Plus good documentation and a responsive developer. This is the stuff of dreams.

Dr. John Gøtze

I’ve used Relevanssi for several years now, and it is an essential plugin on my bigger sites. Relevanssi is an absolute must-have if you want to offer a better user experience on your WordPress website, because we all know how important a good search function is (and how bad the standard WordPress search is). Mikko keeps adding new features – I love the PDF search and more recently the related posts feature. Support is excellent, even for help with non-standard features. Thanks Mikko!

Kay Cunningham

I am two years new to the website business. I have, however, been a graphic designer for nearly 40 years. I purchased Relevanssi after reading so many positive reviews. I had some issues getting Relevanssi installed — not because of product, but because of where I am in the learning curve. I contacted Mikko and he got me all set up, including fixing some other issues I had created in Google, which were sure to cause problems with Relevanssi. I can’t say enough positive things about Mikko. He responded to all my questions immediately, and I mean immediately. He never snarked, was always positive, and never made me feel like I don’t know what I’m doing — which I often don’t! Mikko and his product are top-shelf. The last search plugin I used displayed way, way too many results. I was afraid all the search results would be overwhelming to the user. I like the way Relevanssi displays and allows you to narrow down results as you want.

John Killin

It’s seldom one gets such prompt and helpful service – much appreciated!

PebbleArt Inc.

I had a really high end client that had a specific need and there wasn’t any other WordPress plugin out there that could handle it. We were looking at having to build something from scratch, to handle a a large and unusual database. Fortunately we found Relevanssi.

I emailed the creator a question and got a very speedy response, and so purchased and installed it. And it worked perfectly! Except for one small thing. The boolean search operators were slightly different than our client wanted. That’s not an uncommon thing, clients are really knit picky about details, and it sucks when you have to tell them something can’t be done.

But I emailed the creator of the plugin, and again he responded to me telling me he could help update the plugin to meet our needs. And he did, the very next day! This is a great plugin, with excellent support, and I will definitely be using this again. Thank you!

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Roee Yossef

בין אם אתם מתקינים את הגירסה החינמית של התוסף Relevanssi או את גירסת הפרמיום, לבטח התוסף ישפר את תוצאות החיפוש באתר הוורדפרס שלכם. פעולה זו תשפר את חווית המשתמש על ידי הצגת תכנים יותר רלוונטים כלפיו ותמנע מהגולשים לחפש תשובות בבלוג אחר – ובכך תגדל החשיפה לפוסטים שלכם.

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László Patai

Pár évvel ezelőtt belefutottam egy problémába. Egy olyan weboldalt építettem, ahol napi szinten 2000-3000 új bejegyzés keletkezett és nagyságrendileg ennyi is törlődött. Az összes bejegyzés száma pedig megközelítette a 100.000 darabot. Ezt a content mennyiséget simán lekezeli a WordPress, viszont, ha keresni is szeretnénk ennyi adat között, az már problémásabb és nagyon terhelő tud lenni a szervernek (főleg úgy, hogy a látogatók szinte csak a keresőt használják).

Kipróbáltam számos kész megoldást és saját ötletet is, de egyik sem hozta el a kívánt eredményt. Aztán teszteltem egy finn fejlesztő (Mikko Saari) Relevanssi nevű bővítményét és egycsapásra az összes problémám megoldódott.

– WPHU.org

Johnny

Relevanssi Search WordPress plugin is absolutely the best search plugin out there! I’ve started using it on my busy boxing site since 2011 (six years ago). It is incredibly fast, full of useful granular options (weighted searches, custom excerpt length, logical exclusions), full of features (highlighted terms, synonyms, stop words, partial searches, WPML-compatibility), and more. The UI is clean and easy to understand/use and the code is absolute no-nonsense. The plugin’s logic is so clever and comprehensive, it has and continues to blow away the competition throughout all these years. What makes Relevanssi even better is Mikko’s dedication and top-notch customer service. I can’t say enough about this amazing search plugin. I recommend everyone to do what I do and pay for the “Permanent” lifetime plan because nobody else will ever come close to the features and ease-of-use of Relevanssi.

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Jacqui Yoo

This product has exceeded my expectations and is far superior to any other search enhancement plugin for WordPress I have ever used. Even more, the customer service goes way above and beyond. Mikko helped me resolve an issue with the theme I was using, was very responsive and pleasant to communicate with. I am looking forward to using Relevanssi Search in future projects!

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Sven Drumev

I have used Relevanssi for the past 4 years on number of website projects. After I discovered it, I have never looked for another WordPress search solution. Not only it is one of the best coded plugins but the support from Mikko and team is BEYOND outstanding. Their care, prompt responses and willingness to always help is simply unsurpassed and something I strive to bring to my business every day. Thank you Mikko and team for everything you do.

Jonathan W.

We list hundreds of college scholarships on our website, but the default WordPress search did not cut it. Enter Relevanssi! Since we installed the plugin, students have been getting excellent search results that actually match their search terms. Thank you Mikko! If you want your visitors to get accurate search results, the Premium version is the way to go. (The “NOT” operator is worth the cost of the entire upgrade.) But the real benefit of the Premium is the excellent, personalized support from Mikko. Don’t wait another day to install Relevanssi, you won’t regret it!

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Jennifer R.

Wow. Not only was that the fastest response I’ve ever received, but it’s the fastest resolution too. THANK YOU!

Alec Shekhar

Relevanssi is the most powerful search plugin I could find – better than Google Search for WordPress. It was the only solution for what we needed at TradersLists.com. It is highly flexible, and Mikko’s customer service was superb. Just stop looking elsewhere now, and buy it!

Anders Saugstrup

Mikko’s Relevanssi plugin saved our search!

We were struggling with irrelevant search results on our bbPress forum, Marketers.dk – the largest Danish Online Marketing Forum.

The build in search engine in WordPress simply did not deliver the results our paying members where asking for.

The only plugin that fit our criteria (working with WordPress, bbPress and working behind a paywall) was Relevanssi, which also happens to be the best WordPress search engine.

Implementing it needed some tweaking and Mikko has been amazing in helping us out. Now we have the search results that we wanted!

Tom Ewer

To be honest, I think the developers of Relevanssi have offered too much in the free version. [..] There is no comparison between default WordPress search and Relevanssi – the latter blows the former out of the water. [..] Not only that, Relevanssi is a piece of cake to set up.

— Relevanssi: The Best Search Engine for WordPress?

TodoWordPress

Relevanssi, un muy buen script que nos indexará comentarios, tags, campos personalizados, así como por supuesto títulos y contenidos, y nos formateará la página de resultados por relevancia.

— TodoWordPress recommends Relevanssi.

Stephanie Leary

I’ve recently discovered Relevanssi, which arranges search results by relevance rather than by date. I immediately installed it everywhere. It’s wonderful. There are a lot of plugins that improve WordPress’s search results, but this is the easiest to use.

– Author of Beginning WordPress 3.0

Dr. Mike Sagman

Thanks for your sharing your well-designed and valuable plugin with the world and making it available for me to use on my website. It is working flawlessly and my guests are making much more use of the information on my website. After more than two years of using the inadequate WordPress default plugin, traffic appeared to improve steadily immediately following the installation of your Relevanssi plugin.

— Dog Food Advisor

Thank you community!

Thank you all for using Relevanssi and helping make it one of the leading WordPress search plugins worldwide. We’re proud of every customer and continuously work to improve Relevanssi to create even more happy users. If you’re not yet part of the Relevanssi community, now is the perfect time to join. With over 100,000 active installations, it’s clear we’re doing something right.