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.

j100002ben

This plugin port the full text index search functionality from mediawiki (ver 1.19.0) to wordpress.
It improve the searching speed by using MATCH AGAINST than LIKE and also solve the full text index problem with cjk (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) words.
This plugin will create a new database table with post ID and text content.

Wp CJK Fulltext Index

This plugin port the full text index search functionality from mediawiki (ver 1.19.0) to wordpress.

Relevanssi Light vs Wp CJK Fulltext Index