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.
Sometimes it may be necessary to restrict the Did you mean suggestions Relevanssi serves to just one post type. There’s no option for that, as by default the Relevanssi database the Did you mean suggestions use as a source (this only applies to Premium, that is) doesn’t have any information about the post types 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…
Make Divi include all post types Divi search form module restricts the search to only posts and pages. To get rid of that restriction, you can add this to your site: Divi and multisite searching Divi search results templates don’t work in multisite searching. Multisite searching requires changes to the templates, and it’s impossible to…
If you’re using custom post statuses, Relevanssi requires some tinkering. By default, Relevanssi only handles posts that are of status publish, pending, draft or private. Relevanssi has a filter that lets you add more statuses to the list of acceptable statuses for Relevanssi. Add this to your site: This function, added to the two filters,…
Yoast Local SEO plugin breaks Relevanssi search. It enhances the search by adding meta queries. Unfortunately they don’t work with Relevanssi. The fix is simple, though. Add this to the theme functions.php: add_filter( ‘relevanssi_modify_wp_query’, ‘rlv_meta_fix’, 99 ); function rlv_meta_fix( $q ) { $q->set( ‘meta_query’, array() ); return $q; }add_filter( ‘relevanssi_modify_wp_query’, ‘rlv_meta_fix’, 99 ); function rlv_meta_fix(…
If you’re using MemberMouse to manage memberships on your site, having Relevanssi co-operate with MemberMouse is easy using the relevanssi_post_ok filter hook. Add the following code to your site and your protected content will not be displayed to users without access to the content:
My Relevanssi engine has the AND operator enabled, with a fallback to OR when the search finds no matches. I’d like the search to display first the AND results and later the OR results. For example, if I search for “wedding party”, I’d like the search to show first the entries matching both words and…
Adding a custom field filter in a Relevanssi search takes a little bit of programming, because the filter needs to create a meta_query that Relevanssi understands. Let’s assume we have some colour information in a custom field that’s called colour_field, and we want to use that to filter the search results. First, let’s add a…
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…
If you need to disable Relevanssi, for example for a particular template, all you need to do is to unhook two filters: Before versions 4.10.2 (free) and 2.12.2 (Premium), you need to unhook these filters: