Mikko Saari

Relevanssi Light replaces the default WP search with a search that uses the fulltext indexing capabilities of the database. It requires a modern version of MySQL or MariaDB.
Relevanssi Light is very powerful, as it leverages your database to do all the hard work. Even large sites will return relevant results quickly and efficiently. Indexing is fully automatic and always handled by your database server.
Thanks to Otto Kekäläinen (ottok) for the original idea, development push, and all the feedback.
Feedback is welcome. I follow the support forums here, but you can also post an issue on <a href="https://github.com/msaari/relevanssi-light" rel="nofollow ugc">the Relevanssi Light GitHub page</a>. That’s where the active development happens.
<h4>Comparison between Relevanssi Light and Relevanssi</h4>
Relevanssi Light is a simple, easy-to-use tool with limited capabilities. It provides very fast search results with better quality, but with little room for customization and adjustment.
Relevanssi is a full-fledged search solution that offers lots of features and full control over the search index and the search results. It generates useful excerpts with the search terms highlighted, can provide “Did you mean” suggestions, keeps logs and much more. Indexing and searching is much slower than with Relevanssi Light.
Relevanssi Premium adds more features to Relevanssi: it can index user profiles, taxonomy terms, and PDF content, generate related posts lists and more.

Relevanssi Light

Works really well and the plugin author is very helpful :-)

It's also very well coded with full documentation, as well as hooks and pluggable functions to allow for extension and customisation.

Great little plugin


The full Relevanssi is great, but this is usually all I need. Just a replacement for the default WP search, with more relevant results, but without the complexity of settings, indexing, extra tables, etc. Bonus: it works with jet smart filters too, and it doesn't mess up the post type filter like the base Relevanssi.


Exactly what I need

Relevanssi Light is a simple, quick and effective search improvement that replaces the default WP search with a fulltext index search.

wowpress.host

Default WordPress search result pages are often slow and results they show are often not relevant. This plugin use specially designed Search Engine software for that purpose, which gives you both speed and relevance.
Useful when:
<ul>
<li>You need your search results to be fast</li>
<li>better accuracy for search results required</li>
<li>natural language constructs has to be understood (search for “galaxy” has to return pages containing “galaxies” word)</li>
<li>drop-in replacement of existing search result pages – no adjustments in theme code required</li>
</ul>
At <a href="https://wowpress.host/" rel="nofollow ugc">WowPress.host</a> company we often face situation when search results pages at websites we manage are extremely slow, or search results you get are not relevant. Search pages traffic may even affect whole website stability by taking all SQL server resources. 
That happens because WordPress use SQL queries to perform the search but MySQL is not designed for that. There is only one working solution to prevent search slowness – use specially designed Search Engine server software written exactly for that purpose, and this plugin allows you to do that. 
This plugin supports ElasticSearch engine to perform search requests, and our service available in every hosting environment. 
Keep in mind that some technical knowledge required to set up and maintain ElasticSearch server software, also it’s not possible to install it on every hosting environment so we do offer our Managed service available for everyone.
While we offer our search solutions to our customers for awhile with a lot of success, we decided to publish some basic solution to the community for free since we use a lot of open-source tools in our work too. Hope it will help you.
<h4>Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?</h4>
Support for this plugin is provided via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wow-fulltext-search" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.
The source code for this plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/wowpress-host/wow-fulltext-search" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
Need adjustment for your specific theme/plugin needs? 
Paid support at <a href="https://wowpress.host/professional-services/" rel="nofollow ugc">WowPress.host</a>.

Wow FullText Search

Fast fulltext search provided by Search Engine software replacing default WordPress functionality.

Relevanssi Light vs Wow FullText Search