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.

Is there a premium version of Relevanssi?

Yes, there is a premium version of Relevanssi called Relevanssi Premium. It has added features.

Does using Relevanssi require a large amount of database space?

Yes, 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.

What are the key features of Relevanssi?

The key features of Relevanssi include: search results sorted in the order of relevance, fuzzy matching, search for phrases with quotes, create custom excerpts, highlight search terms, search comments, tags, categories, and custom fields, multisite friendly, bbPress support, and Gutenberg friendly.

What are the advanced features of Relevanssi?

The advanced features of Relevanssi include: adjust the weighting for titles, tags, and comments, log queries, restrict searches to categories and tags, index custom post types and custom taxonomies, index the contents of shortcodes, 'Did you mean?' suggestions, support for WPML multi-language plugin and Polylang, support for membership plugins, advanced filtering, search result throttling, and disable indexing of post content and post titles.

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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.

Rating:

4.8

Active Installations:

100000+

Last Updated:

Dec 18, 2024

WordPress Version:

4.9 or higher

Tested up to:

6.7.2

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Better Search Engine

Improved search results and presentation

Custom Excerpts

Highlighted search terms in user-friendly excerpts

Multisite Friendly

Compatible with multiple WordPress sites

Author’s Site

4.24.3

New feature: New filter hook relevanssi_cached_post_object can be used to modify the cached post objects.
Minor fix: Relevanssi cache population now creates stdClass objects instead of WP_Post objects to avoid out of memory issues. If you need WP_Post objects, use the relevanssi_cached_post_object filter hook to create them.
Minor fix: Avoid problems with object custom field values.

4.24.2

Minor fix: Fix broken excerpts.

4.24.1

Minor fix: Prevent database errors.

4.24.0

Minor fix: SEO Framework local search exclude option description now tells what the option actually does.
Minor fix: Relevanssi cache population now creates WP_Post objects instead of stdClass objects.
Minor fix: SEOPress compatibility mode is enabled again.
Minor fix: Avoid fatal errors in installation process with Polylang enabled.
Minor fix: Update counts link had the wrong tab query parameter.
Minor fix: Adjust post type parameter handling so that it doesn’t change the post_type query var.

4.23.1

Security fix: Prevent an XSS attack by a malicious contributor.

4.23.0

New feature: New filter hook relevanssi_forbidden_post_types filters the list of post types excluded from Relevanssi indexing.
New feature: New filter hook relevanssi_forbidden_taxonomies filters the list of taxonomies excluded from Relevanssi indexing.
New feature: New filter hook relevanssi_show_password_protected controls whether password protected posts are shown in the search results.
New feature: Support for post_mime_type query parameter.
New feature: Relevanssi settings tabs have more CSS ids to help hide individual settings.
Changed behaviour: Password protected posts are excluded from the search results by default to protect their contents.
Minor fix: In rare cases, the search results would not be in relevance order if the throttle wasn’t used.
Minor fix: The settings tab query parameter was renamed to avoid collisions with other plugins.
Minor fix: User searches page now uses wp_print_inline_script_tag().

Great plugin. Great support!

By robmaric on January 24, 2025

Thank you so much Mikko for a great plugin and your excellent support.

Really good solution for our archive

By Peg Perry (pegperry) on January 16, 2025

We bought Premium yesterday and by the end of today we were able to do a proof of concept for a news archive we are putting together. In one day of development I was able to put together a page of pdf's with mixed Lithuanian and English text. I was able to restrict the search on the page to a few categories and exclude unrelated pages on the site.

Your documentation on the modifications required to the functions.php file was really good and I was able to make the changes even though I don't know php.

We will be moving to multisite in future and I am confident we will be able to port this to the new site without difficulty. Thanks, Mikko!

An essential plugin when you have a lot of meta data

By Gregoire Noyelle (aglekis) on December 17, 2024

Thanks so much, Mikko.
I use your plugin with a lot of meta data—over 1,600,000 across 40,000 entries—and it works like a charm.

Cheers!

Excellent Search Plugin

By Mo (nadhonar) on December 5, 2024

I was really impressed by the quick support from the plugin team; Relevanssi Search has greatly improved the search functionality on my WordPress site. It provides more accurate and relevant results than the default search, with features like custom post type indexing and partial matching.
Thanks to the developer(s)

Great functionallity

By JosC on December 5, 2024

Less is more. Great intuitive interface and working perfect wiht Tagdiv Newspaper.

Great search plugin and awesome support.

By Bruno Apr (outpacer) on October 24, 2024

I had a pleasure of using this plugin for some time and it was great. Fantastic functionality and as I recently found it also has fantastic support from plugin authors (Mikko specifically). I hope I can go for a premium version of the plugin for my future project.

Excellent

By rlortie on July 11, 2024

Beaucoup d'options de configuration et assez simple à utiliser

Best search engine for WP and the reasons are many

By hebhansen on April 10, 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!