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Relevanssi – A Better Search

Relevanssi – A Better Search

Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.

4.8

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388

Reviews

100K

Active installations

Relevanssi – A Better Search
Relevanssi – A Better Search
Relevanssi – A Better Search
Relevanssi – A Better Search
Relevanssi – A Better Search
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Overview

Compatibility

Installation instructions

Customer support & learning resources

Changelog

Main benefits

Better search results

Fuzzy matching support

Custom excerpts creation

Highlight search terms

Multisite friendly

About this plugin

Author: Mikko Saari
Categories: Content Management
Version: 4.22.2
Last updated: 04-04-2024
WordPress version: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.5.5
PHP version required: 7.0
Languages: Čeština, Deutsch [+12]
Learning resources: View resources

Overview

Relevanssi is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to replace the standard search engine with an enhanced, feature-rich alternative that significantly improves search functionality and user experience on your website. The plugin offers comprehensive search result organization by relevance, fuzzy matching for partial words, and customizable excerpts with highlighted search terms. Its robust capabilities include the ability to search through comments, tags, categories, and custom fields, and it is fully compatible with multisite setups, bbPress, and Gutenberg. Advanced features allow for detailed adjustments, such as weighting content aspects, logging queries, and providing Google-style "Did you mean?" suggestions. For more complex requirements, Relevanssi Premium adds capabilities like indexing attachment content, enhanced spelling corrections, and extensive multisite search options, along with additional customization for search results and user queries. However, users should be aware that Relevanssi can require significant database space, which may not be suitable for all hosting setups.

Improved Search Relevance

  • 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'.

Enhanced Search Experience

  • 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.
  • Google-style 'Did you mean?' suggestions based on successful user searches.
  • Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits.

Comprehensive Search Coverage

  • Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields.
  • Index custom post types and custom taxonomies.
  • Index the contents of shortcodes.
  • Support for WPML multi-language plugin and Polylang.

Advanced Customization and Control

  • Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments.
  • Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings.
  • Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want.
  • Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases.

Features list

Feature

Free version

Premium version

Available at WP.org plugin repository

The plugin can be downloaded from the official WordPress plugin repository.

Available at Github

The plugin's source code is accessible on GitHub.

Unlimited sites

Allows usage on an unlimited number of websites.

Lifetime upgrades and support

Provides ongoing updates and customer support for the lifetime of the product.

Fully translated into Spanish (es_ES), German, French and Finnish

Available in multiple languages including Spanish, German, French, and Finnish.

Price includes VAT for European customers

The price covers Value Added Tax for customers in Europe.

Pricing

Free

$0 / free

Plan includes

Available at WP.org plugin repository
Available at Github
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Permanent

$379 / lifetime

Plan includes

Unlimited sites
Lifetime upgrades and support
Fully translated into Spanish (es_ES), German, French and Finnish
Price includes VAT for European customers
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Rating and reviews

4.8

Rating summary

388

Reviews

100K

Active installations

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User sentiment analysis

Users appreciate the Relevanssi plugin for its extensive customization options, efficiency in improving WordPress search functionalities, and fast performance without impacting load times. The plugin is especially useful for large sites, e-commerce platforms, and those with PDFs and custom fields. Users commend the support provided by the developer, Mikko, who is responsive, helpful, and frequently updates the plugin. However, drawbacks include the complexity of the settings for novice users and high server resource consumption in some cases. Some users also noted limitations, such as difficulties with plural term searches and the need for experimentation to find the best setup. Overall, users highly recommend it for enhancing search capabilities.
rlortie

rlortie

11 Jul, 2024

Beaucoup d’options de configuration et assez simple à utiliser
hebhansen

hebhansen

10 Apr, 2024

I used Relevanssi for maybe 5 years and it’s one of the first plugins I add to any WP install. Personal customization is spot on, so that you get the output as you wish to convey it to your site. The depth of categorisation scans is beyond impressive and personally I see no effect on load time anywhere. Scans are super fast as are searches.. I have also added the Ajax pop-up plugin that saves users and servers a page load and takes you straight to that particular page required. The whole package is a killer engine. So much so it makes me wonder it’s not THE search engine in WP. I have only needed support once in my life when wp 6.5 launched. The fix from Mikko was immediate and very friendly, helpfull and competent. I operate in TT4 (Block themes), that these “years” transition to work smooth and stable. Relevanssi is maybe the one plugin that never caused any issues. It runs flawlessly in WP and also Woocommerce and even my multi vendor art fair I currently run at svalinnart.com. Feel free to test Relevanssi live there, if you so wish. Thx Mikko for this. It’s very appreciated on a daily basis!
Soufiane Sabiri

Soufiane Sabiri

16 Mar, 2024

Thank you for improving the search experience on my website. Please keep it up, thanks a lot!
ElectricFeet

ElectricFeet

11 Mar, 2024

I wanted to add captions in search results. This worked a treat, with minimum effort.
Tobias

Tobias

10 Mar, 2024

I have been using Relevanssi for several years for a number of websites and am very satisfied. It replaces the built-in WordPress search and complements it with many additional functions.

FAQ

Knowledge Base

Contextual help

Relevanssi doesn’t work

Searching for words with ampersands or hyphens doesn’t work

Where are the user search logs?

Displaying the relevance score

Did you mean? suggestions

What is tf * idf weighing?

What are stop words?