Knowledge base contains information on how to use Relevanssi. There are lots of features that are documented in the knowledge base. Here's an index to the knowledge base, with all the entries sorted under different topics.
The user manual functions page is also a good place to look at.
Relevanssi Premium users have asked for PDF indexing since day one, and version 2.0 finally introduced this feature. Coming up with a fast and reliable method hasn’t been easy, but we’re pretty proud of what we have now. Our PDF indexer doesn’t tax your server as it runs as a service on a separate server.…
By default posts imported with WP All Import do not get indexed by Relevanssi. The importing process does not trigger Relevanssi indexing. That is, however, easy to remedy: Add this code to your site, and any posts imported with WP All Import will be indexed with Relevanssi. Do note that this will make the importing…
I have some trouble with reindexing of new posts. The reason is simple – I sync data into the database automatically. So what I need is a cronjob to reindex the site once a day. How do I do a cronjob? The easiest way would be to get Relevanssi Premium and use WP CLI, so…
Some event calendar plugins do recurring events by creating many posts. That’s fine until those cloned posts fill up your search results. This function will only show one of each post with the same title and will take the one with the first date. The date is checked from _EventStartDate custom field, but it’s easy…
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. Add this function to your site and rebuild…
Relevanssi can highlight search terms on the posts. But how about scrolling the page to show the location where the search results are? That is also possible. It requires a bit of JavaScript on the post page. This script needs to run on the post page: The easiest way is to just add this to…
I use private custom fields. I want to index them in the administration but not on the public site. How to do ? Initially this seems impossible to do with Relevanssi, but it’s possible. Doing this requires Relevanssi Premium. The free version doesn’t know which custom field matches the search term, it just knows some custom…
Relevanssi has a conflict with User Access Manager plugin. Both plugins attach to the same `the_posts` filter hook with the same priority, and if UAM runs after Relevanssi, it may cause some issues, like missing excerpts or even broken search results pages. The solution seems simple, however: at least in the one case I’ve run…
Relevanssi by default shows out-of-stock and excluded from catalogue 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 display hidden products in the results. The best way is to unindex…
Sometimes multisite searches cause problems in navigation menus. This is caused by pages from another subsite going into the page cache, and then replacing a page in the navigation menu with the same page ID. If you’re having this problem, adding the following code to the theme functions.php should solve the issue.