Relevanssi Premium

From standard search to configurable results

Relevanssi Premium replaces standard WordPress search with results that can be ordered by relevance instead of date. Partial-word matching can find results when a complete word does not match, and visitors can search for exact phrases in quotation marks. They can pick OR searches to match any term or AND searches to require every term. The plus and minus operators support AND and NOT searches.

Custom excerpts can display where a match occurred and highlight search terms. Those terms can also be highlighted in a document after a user opens it from the results. Premium includes improved spelling correction for “Did you mean?” suggestions.

Choose what the index includes

Search can cover comments, tags, categories, custom fields, custom post types, custom taxonomies and shortcode contents. Settings can adjust the weight of titles, tags and comments, restrict searches to categories or tags, and apply advanced filters to results. Premium lets you assign weights to any post types and taxonomies and give extra weight to new posts.

Premium extends indexing to content in PDF, Office and Open Office attachments, user profiles, category, tag and custom taxonomy pages, and arbitrary columns in the wp_posts MySQL table. On a multisite installation, it can search across multiple sites.

Manage search behavior

Query logging can show popular searches and recent searches with no hits. “Did you mean?” suggestions can draw on successful user searches. Search result throttling is available for large databases, and a filter hook can disable indexing of post content and titles.

Additional utilities include options export and import, WP CLI commands for supported search management tasks, related-post functionality and configurable redirects for searches. Relevanssi supports multisite, bbPress, Gutenberg, WPML, Polylang, s2member, Members, Groups and Simple Membership.

Install and configure Relevanssi Premium

Install and activate the plugin in WordPress, then open its settings to configure the search index and result behavior. The Help menu in the WordPress admin dashboard offers contextual help, and the Relevanssi Knowledge Base has solutions and answers.

Check available database space before use. Relevanssi may need substantial storage; a rough estimate is three times the size of the wp_posts database table. Limited space for database tables may cause problems.