Every now and then, somebody wants to see exact title matches higher in the results. Usually, the best way to do this is to increase the title weight, maybe switch the default operator to AND and let the Relevanssi algorithm lift the best results. If that is not enough, you can use this code to…
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…
If you want to have sticky posts first in results when they match the search query, just add this code to your theme functions.php:
If you want to auto-direct the user directly to the result if there’s just one result for the search, that’s quite easy. Add the following code to your site: This is not Relevanssi-specific and works just fine even without Relevanssi. If you are using Relevanssi on a multisite system, you need a small change to…
I’m building a directory and would like the oldest posts to automatically display first in the search results, is this possible? I found out how to add a link that the user can click to sort the results but would like an automatic solution. Can you provide code that can be added to the functions.php…
Usually, WordPress supports one category, one tag and one taxonomy in the search, if you use the query variables to set the taxonomies. You can enter multiple taxonomies as parameters to the query, but only the first one is used. If you want to have multiple taxonomies involved, you need to build a tax_query. The…
Do you want to order your search results in random order? Here’s how: Add this function to your site and the search results will appear in random order. You can also do this: However, both of these solutions only work if all the search results are on the same page. If the results span multiple…
In order to filter search results by category, use the following code: $url = get_bloginfo(’url’); $url = esc_attr(add_query_arg(array(’cat’ => ’10’, ‘s’ => get_search_query()), $url)); echo "<a href=’$url’ rel=’nofollow’>Filter by category 10</a>";$url = get_bloginfo(‘url’); $url = esc_attr(add_query_arg(array(‘cat’ => ’10’, ‘s’ => get_search_query()), $url)); echo "<a href=’$url’ rel=’nofollow’>Filter by category 10</a>"; Put this in your search results…
John Blackbourn wrote a cool related searches feature for Relevanssi Premium. It’s included from version 1.7.4. In order to use the related searches, you must have search logging enabled and a good log of past searches. Then add the following code to your search results template in a suitable place: The first parameter is the…