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.
A Relevanssi customer asked whether Relevanssi can slow down a site. They have a slow site and their hosting provider had suggested Relevanssi might be the reason, because Relevanssi had a huge table in the site database. That is true – Relevanssi tables can be really big. But they’re not accessed at all except during…
Often users would like to get a free trial of Relevanssi Premium, but we always say no. Why is that? The answer is simple. We offer our customers lots of liberties. Providing a temporary trial use is difficult. Relevanssi customers have liberties We don’t believe in spying on our customers or restricting their plugin use.…
Sometimes you want to get a specific post as the first result for a certain search, but Relevanssi doesn’t return the right post as the first result by itself for some reason. Relevanssi Premium has a tool for these situations: pinning. Pinning allows you to specify keywords for each post, and whenever that keyword is…
Query Monitor is by far the best thing for a WordPress developer. It’s billed as the “Developer Tools panel for WordPress”, and that’s a good way to put it. If you’ve ever used the browser developer tools, you know what to expect. Query Monitor is a good way to figure out problems in Relevanssi searches,…
Is is possible to set Relevanssi in a way that it would return only perfect matches for queries up to 3 characters, but any words that starts with the queried term if it has 4 characters or more? – Originally asked here Yes, but it requires a bit of code. Add this to your site and…
Relevanssi Premium 2.10.2 introduces a new way to search: wildcard matching. Once the wildcard matching is enabled (it is disabled by default), it introduces two new operators: * and ?. Using the wildcard operators The * operator replaces zero or more characters, so searching for w*ess would match “wilderness”, “witness”, “WordPress” and also “wess”. The…
Relevanssi is language-agnostic in itself. It does not know any language and doesn’t care about which language the site uses. However, there are a few things that you need to consider when using Relevanssi in languages other than English. Characters: use UTF8 As long as your site uses UTF8 characters, Relevanssi can handle just about…
I need to add some custom shortcodes to the list of the “removed” ones (so they don’t show in plain text in the results). However, some of them are built like [shortcode_name text=”Need to keep this in results”] and I would like the content in the text parameter to stay in the results. How do I go about this?…
By default, Relevanssi tends to prefer longer posts. The default TF × IDF weights Relevanssi uses simply count the term frequency, ie. how many times a word appears in the post. That prefers longer posts as they usually have the search term appear more often. However, a 500-word post with 15 search term appearances might…
This little filter function works on relevanssi_hits_filter. When a search query is made that matches an SKU (or any other custom field, but SKUs are the most likely scenario here), only results that match the SKU will be returned. For this to work, Relevanssi must be set to index the _sku custom field (because otherwise,…