Spam searches are a common feature on WordPress sites. Spam bots make lots of useless queries. They hope sites display the search queries somewhere, providing links to spam sites. This is unpleasant, clogs up the search logs and wastes resources. Relevanssi Premium introduced a new spam blocking feature in version 2.15.0. You can use this…
These versions add lots of new features. Premium users get a spam block feature that will help you prevent spam queries, there’s a new Google-style “missing words” feature in OR searches that shows which words are not included in each result. Multisite searching has been refactored and improved a lot, and it has couple of…
In the list of post types to index in the Relevanssi indexing settings tab there’s a column “Excluded from search”, which has a value of “yes” or “no” for each post type. What does this mean, and why does the value remain “yes” even if you set Relevanssi to index that post type? This column…
Using Relevanssi with WP Event Manager requires you to adjust the search process in WP Event Manager a bit. Fortunately, the plugin has good filters you can use. Add this to your site: This will adjust the event listing query arguments to switch on the Relevanssi flag, causing Relevanssi to process the results. This way…
Martfury is a WooCommerce theme that comes with a built-in dropdown search. That’s great, except that as usual the dropdown search doesn’t work with Relevanssi. Fortunately the search is hooked into place, so it’s possible to hook it out and replace it with something new. That might not be necessary, though. The theme developer has…
Hi, is there a way to add a link to another website when searching for certain keywords? We have a few affiliates and we want to include a direct link to their websites in the search results when certain terms are searched for. How would I go about this? A straight-forward approach for this is…
You may notice that enabling Relevanssi custom excerpts breaks all autoembeds (things like Youtube video embeds) on search results pages. That’s done on purpose, because the autodiscovery of those embeds can be a proper performance killer if the search results include lots of embedded content. Thus, Relevanssi switches the feature off, considering it’s not commonly…
This new version improves Relevanssi excerpt generation, making it faster especially with larger posts. Lots of small bug fixes are also included, making Relevanssi more robust. 2.14.5 / 4.12.5 (Premium) New feature: New WP CLI command wp relevanssi remove_attachment_errors clears out all attachment reading errors. Changed behaviour: relevanssi_excerpt_custom_field_content now gets the post ID and list…
Elementor is a popular page builder. It works rather well with Relevanssi. Highlight in documents breaks entrance animations In some cases enabling Relevanssi in-document highlighting breaks pictures with entrance animations. You can add this function to your site to fix the problem. Conditional and Inline CSS Load Experiment Elementor has this new experimental feature. For…
Relevanssi generally works well with Ultimate Member and can be used to search Ultimate Member profiles. Ultimate Member doesn’t do custom profiles but instead builds upon WordPress user profiles. If you want to change the default /author/ URLs for user profiles in search results to point to the /user/ URLs Ultimate Member uses, that’s easy…