Mikko Saari

<p>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.</p>
<p>This is the free version of Relevanssi. There’s also Relevanssi Premium, which has added features. For more information about Premium, see <a href="https://www.relevanssi.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Relevanssi.com</a>.</p>
<p>Do note that using Relevanssi may require large amounts (hundreds of megabytes) of database space (for a reasonable estimate, multiply the size of your <code>wp_posts</code> database table by three). 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.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date.</li>
<li>Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don’t match.</li>
<li>Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query).</li>
<li>Search for phrases with quotes, for example “search phrase”.</li>
<li>Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted.</li>
<li>Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results.</li>
<li>Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields.</li>
<li>Multisite friendly.</li>
<li>bbPress support.</li>
<li>Gutenberg friendly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments.</li>
<li>Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits.</li>
<li>Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings.</li>
<li>Index custom post types and custom taxonomies.</li>
<li>Index the contents of shortcodes.</li>
<li>Google-style “Did you mean?” suggestions based on successful user searches.</li>
<li>Support for <a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML multi-language plugin</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a>.</li>
<li>Support for <a href="http://www.s2member.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">s2member membership plugin</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/" rel="ugc">Members</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/" rel="ugc">Groups</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-membership/" rel="ugc">Simple Membership</a> and other membership plugins.</li>
<li>Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want.</li>
<li>Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases.</li>
<li>Disable indexing of post content and post titles with a simple filter hook.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium features (only in Relevanssi Premium)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Indexing attachment content (PDF, Office, Open Office).</li>
<li>Improved spelling correction in “Did you mean?” suggestions.</li>
<li>Searching across multiple sites in the same multisite installation.</li>
<li>Search and index user profiles.</li>
<li>Search and index taxonomy term pages (categories, tags, custom taxonomies).</li>
<li>Search and index arbitrary columns in wp_posts MySQL table.</li>
<li>Assign weights to any post types and taxonomies.</li>
<li>Assign extra weight to new posts.</li>
<li>Let the user choose between AND and OR searches, use + and – operator (AND and NOT).</li>
<li>Export and import settings.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.relevanssi.com/user-manual/wp-cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP CLI commands</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.relevanssi.com/knowledge-base/related-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Related posts</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.relevanssi.com/user-manual/redirects/" rel="nofollow ugc">Redirects for searches</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<ul>
<li>Cristian Damm for tag indexing, comment indexing, post/page exclusion and general helpfulness.</li>
<li>Marcus Dalgren for UTF-8 fixing.</li>
<li>Warren Tape for 2.5.5 fixes.</li>
<li>Mohib Ebrahim for relentless bug hunting.</li>
<li>John Calahan for extensive 4.0 beta testing.</li>
</ul>


Relevanssi – A Better Search

I cannot understand why Relevanssi does not have more active installs, since the years it's the best plugin to sort the WP search results by Relevancy.

I would like to see 1 million installs soon, it deserves.

Best Plugin to improve the WordPress Search Engine

I rarely find a plugin that does exactly what I need, clearly and efficiently (therefore, I usually build it myself). The various but smooth settings allow a perfect fine tuning: nothing more and nothing less than what is really needed. My compliments!

Just perfect!

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

WebberZone

Ajay

<p>Supercharge your WordPress site search with <strong><a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/better-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Search</a></strong> – a powerful replacement for the default WordPress search engine that delivers more relevant results and a richer search experience.</p>
<p>Better Search gives you complete control over your site’s search results. Fine-tune relevance, search across different fields and post types, track popular queries, and customise the output — all without writing a single line of code.</p>
<p>Make your search more intuitive and engaging with a search heatmap of popular queries, display results as users type with AJAX Live Search, and tailor the look to your theme with custom templates and styles.</p>
<p>Built with performance in mind, Better Search includes its own caching system and works smoothly with popular caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. It also features a profanity filter and is translation-ready for global use.</p>
<p>Here are some of the main features of <strong>Better Search</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic</strong>: Just activate the plugin and enjoy better search results right away</li>
<li><strong>Seamless integration</strong>: No need to edit any code or create custom search templates</li>
<li><strong>Relevance</strong>: Sort the results by relevance or date, and assign different weights to title and content</li>
<li><strong>Control the results</strong>: Search within title, content, excerpt, meta fields, authors, tags and other taxonomies and comments</li>
<li><strong>Popular searches</strong>: Show a heatmap of the most popular searches on your site, either as a widget or a shortcode</li>
<li><strong>AJAX Live Search</strong>: Show search results as you type in any search form on your site</li>
<li><strong>Customisation</strong>: Use your own template file and CSS styles for the ultimate look and feel</li>
<li><strong>Supports cache plugins</strong>: Works seamlessly with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache and W3 Total Cache</li>
<li><strong>Profanity filter</strong>: Filter out any words that you don’t want to appear in search queries</li>
<li><strong>Translation ready</strong>: Use the plugin in any language</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to improve your site search, download Better Search today and experience the difference for yourself.</p>
<h3>Features in Better Search Pro</h3>
<p><a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/better-search/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Better Search Pro</strong></a> gives you even more control and performance:</p>
<ul>
<li>🔍 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/multisite-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multisite Search</a></li>
<li>✨ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/fuzzy-matches/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fuzzy Matches</a></li>
<li>🎯 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#minimum-relevance-percentage-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Relevance Threshold</a></li>
<li>🔗 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#search-post-slug-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Search Post Slugs</a></li>
<li>⚙️ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-rest-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API Integration</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>MySQL FULLTEXT indices</h3>
<p>Better Search adds the following MySQL FULLTEXT indices to the <code>wp_posts</code> table:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>post_content</code></li>
<li><code>post_title</code></li>
<li><code>(post_title, post_content)</code></li>
</ul>
<p>On multisite, these are added to each blog upon activation. These indices power the relevance-based search and are required for full functionality.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>Better Search is also available on <a href="https://github.com/WebberZone/better-search" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. If you’ve got some cool feature you’d like to implement into the plugin or a bug you’ve been able to fix, consider forking the project and sending me a pull request.</p>
<h3>Plugins by WebberZone</h3>
<p>Better Search is one of the many plugins developed by WebberZone. Check out our other plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/" rel="ugc">Contextual Related Posts</a> – Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-10/" rel="ugc">Top 10</a> – Track daily and total visits to your blog posts and display the popular and trending posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/knowledgebase/" rel="ugc">Knowledge Base</a> – Create a knowledge base or FAQ section on your WordPress site</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-all/" rel="ugc">WebberZone Snippetz</a> – The ultimate snippet manager for WordPress to create and manage custom HTML, CSS or JS code snippets</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoclose/" rel="ugc">Auto-Close</a> – Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks and manage revisions on your WordPress site</li>
</ul>


Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress

Better Search replaces the default WordPress search with a better search engine that gives contextual results sorted by relevance.

Relevanssi – A Better Search vs Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress