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- ๐ท๐ป This plugin is actively maintained and contributors are really committed to it!
- ๐ Shout, shout.. This plugin ranks in the Top 50 plugins.
- โค๏ธ Mindblowing! More than 100,010 people use plugins from this team.
- ๐ 82% of 100,000+ users are on the latest version.
- ๐ฅ Seems like a popular plugin - 694 people download this plugin everyday.
- ๐จโ๐จโ๐งโ๐ง One man show!! Only a single contributor for this plugin.
- ๐ข Aweful or Awesome?? 57 total updates and 57 in just last 12 months. That's a lot!
- ๐ This plugin is going to celebrate it's 12th anniversary after 5 months.
Key Numbers
- 100,000+ Active Installs
- 4.7 Avg. Users Rating
- 250 Total Ratings
- 2,920,914 Total Downloads
- 2009-06-30 Added
- 57 Releases in 12 Months
- 2019-12-10 Last Update
- 4.4.1 Current Version
Peer Comparison
# | Plugin | WPMeta Score | Users | Rating |
1 | Relevanssi – A Better Search | 4 | 100,000+ | 4.7 |
2 | Search Analytics | 1 | 100+ | 5 |
3 | Ajax Load More for Relevanssi | 0.9 | 400+ | 5 |
4 | Live Search and Custom Fields LITE – Advanced Filter | 0.8 | 400+ | 0 |
5 | RediSearch | 0.7 | 10+ | 5 |
6 | REST API for Relevanssi | 0.6 | 100+ | 5 |
7 | WP Search with Elasticsearch | 0.6 | 5 |
Description
Relevanssi replaces the standard WordPress search with a better search engine, with lots of features and configurable options. You’ll get better results, better presentation of results – your users will thank you.
This is the free version of Relevanssi. There’s also Relevanssi Premium, which has added features. For more information about Premium, see Relevanssi.com.
Do note that using Relevanssi may require large amounts (hundreds of megabytes) of database space. If your hosting setup has a limited amount of space for database tables, using Relevanssi may cause problems. In those cases use of Relevanssi cannot be recommended.
Key features
- Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date.
- Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don’t match.
- Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query).
- Search for phrases with quotes, for example “search phrase”.
- Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted.
- Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results.
- Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields.
- Multisite friendly.
- bbPress support.
Advanced features
- Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments.
- Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits.
- Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings.
- Index custom post types and custom taxonomies.
- Index the contents of shortcodes.
- Google-style “Did you mean?” suggestions based on successful user searches.
- Support for WPML multi-language plugin and Polylang.
- Support for s2member membership plugin, Members, Groups and Simple Membership.
- Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want.
- Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases.
- Disable indexing of post content and post titles with a simple filter hook.
Premium features (only in Relevanssi Premium)
- Indexing attachment content (PDF, Office, Open Office).
- Improved spelling correction in “Did you mean?” suggestions.
- Searching across multiple sites in the same multisite installation.
- Search and index user profiles.
- Search and index taxonomy term pages (categories, tags, custom taxonomies).
- Search and index arbitrary columns in wp_posts MySQL table.
- Assign weights to any post types and taxonomies.
- Assign extra weight to new posts.
- Let the user choose between AND and OR searches, use + and – operator (AND and NOT).
- Highlighting search terms for visitors from external search engines.
- Export and import settings.
- WP CLI commands.
Relevanssi in Facebook
You can find Relevanssi in Facebook.
Thanks
- Cristian Damm for tag indexing, comment indexing, post/page exclusion and general helpfulness.
- Marcus Dalgren for UTF-8 fixing.
- Warren Tape for 2.5.5 fixes.
- Mohib Ebrahim for relentless bug hunting.
- John Calahan for extensive 4.0 beta testing.
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Keywords
- better search
- relevance
- search
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