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.
With Advanced Custom Fields, sometimes Relevanssi picks up custom field names to include in the excerpts. This problem happens when you set Relevanssi to index all visible custom fields and have Flexible Content fields. Let’s assume there’s a Flexible Content field with the name flexible_content. It has a layout named field_layout, and in that layout,…
There’s a compatibility issue between Relevanssi and Gutenberg Full Site Editing. No results are found when you create a Query Loop to display the search results with Relevanssi enabled. The blank results happen because the post template block doesn’t use the Relevanssi results but instead uses a new WP_Query. Since Relevanssi still blocks the default…
OceanWP is a popular WordPress theme. It works fine with Relevanssi, but how it handles excerpts on the search results pages is not fully compatible with Relevanssi. Relevanssi expects the theme to use the_excerpt() to print out the excerpts. OceanWP does that, but only for posts that have hand-made excerpts. If the post doesn’t have…
Riode is a WooCommerce theme from ThemeForest. It has a built-in live search that does not automatically use Relevanssi. However, it has a method of switching the search function, which you can use to enable Relevanssi. Add this to your site: Riode has WooCommerce product search features where the search term is looked for in…
Relevanssi has support both for Oxygen and Ninja Tables, but the way the Ninja Tables support is done, it’s not working when used with Oxygen. The Ninja Tables support in Relevanssi is looking for the Ninja Tables shortcodes in the post content, but Oxygen keeps everything in custom fields. Fortunately, the fix is simple: you…
I use the ACF field type File for a download section, but the displayed file title is not indexing. The format I return the ACF field data is “File Array (array)”. For Relevanssi, it doesn’t matter which ACF return format you choose. Relevanssi doesn’t use get_field() but instead uses the plain get_post_meta(). That always returns…
Relevanssi Premium 2.16 introduced a new feature of click tracking. It allows you to see the effectiveness of the search, which links the users click from the search results, and which search terms are most effective for each post. The tracking allows you to find which posts receive clicks from low rankings. You can then…
Relevanssi Premium 2.16 added proximity sorting to search results. That means you can sort the search results by geographic location. Instead of having the most relevant matches first, you can have the nearest results first. There are many ways to use geolocation in WordPress. The way Relevanssi does this is flexible but requires some work.…
A client asked for a solution to redirect all searches for email addresses to the login page – perhaps someone is constantly using the search field when they’re actually looking for the login. This can be achieved with the Redirects tool, as it takes regular expressions. You can also add this to your site: This function…
The Downloads add-on for MemberPress adds downloadable files to MemberPress. These files are stored outside the Media Library, so by default Relevanssi attachment indexing has no access to them. However, Relevanssi offers filter hooks you can use to make Relevanssi index the MemberPress Downloads files. Adjust the query First, we need to tell Relevanssi to…