Mikko Saari (@msaari) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: June 9th, 2008
Location: Tampere, Finland
Website: relevanssi.com
Job Title: CEO
Employer: Painava sana oy
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WordPress developer, best known for developing Relevanssi, a better search solution to replace the default WordPress search. Also a father, a husband and a board game fanatic.

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Posted a reply to search is working in widget not in page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The parameters are the same, except in the second one the search is restricted to…

30 mins ago
Posted a reply to How to limit search results to every single category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You need to modify the search form so that it adds the current category as…

32 mins ago
Posted a reply to Shortcodes in excerpts are not expanded, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're happy with the service provided, please consider leaving a review ;)

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Shortcodes in excerpts are not expanded, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you want to give the new filter a go, it's here: https://github.com/msaari/relevanssi/commit/166743bd897000110d5e36f02a4ef126b3ea64c5

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Shortcodes in excerpts are not expanded, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_post_to_index', 'rlv_excerpt_shortcodes' ); function rlv_excerpt_shortcodes( $_post ) { $_post->post_excerpt = do_shortcode( $_post->post_excerpt ); return…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Shortcodes in excerpts are not expanded, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is it possible the shortcodes are not always registered? In that case they might not…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Annoying Searches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, but I would not recommend that. The blank page is a better message to…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Exclude from indexing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_indexing_restriction', 'rlv_no_inactives' ); function rlv_no_inactives( $restriction ) { global $wpdb; $restriction['mysql'] .= " AND…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Annoying Searches, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
See here for a method of blocking searches like these. Stopwords are not a good…

3 days ago
Created a topic, Very comprehensive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I only wanted to see the last modified date in the adm…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Show in which categories it was found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're happy with the support, please consider leaving a review. Thanks!

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Account for grandparent categories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This version will also index the grandparent categories: add_filter('relevanssi_content_to_index', 'rlv_parent_categories', 10, 2); function rlv_parent_categories($content, $post)…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Show in which categories it was found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you query wp_term_relationships directly: SELECT object_id, term_taxonomy_id FROM wp_term_relationships WHERE object_id IN ( $arr_find_ID…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Show in which categories it was found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi doesn't know which posts are in which category; it doesn't need to. If you…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Not filtered search by categories of goods (product_cat), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, this is an old problem I've solved long time ago. Sorry, my memory's a…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Not filtered search by categories of goods (product_cat), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Here are some tips for debugging: https://www.relevanssi.com/knowledge-base/debugging-relevanssi-searching-issues/ If you want to dive into the source…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Not filtered search by categories of goods (product_cat), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is 6 the correct taxonomy ID number? Or is that some other taxonomy (like WooCommerce…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Not filtered search by categories of goods (product_cat), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What if you try to use the product_cat ID number instead of the slug? Does…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Unwanted indexing of pages with spam search queries in Google, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
These are very common spam queries. Everybody seems to get these these days. I would…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Weight per product category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That looks right to me, so I would try debugging that. Is the function running…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Partial search not working for product variation SKUS, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Have you set Relevanssi to index the variation SKUs for the main product? See here:…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Searching a phrase works well, but excerpt highlights a one word result, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi doesn't do that; Relevanssi only does it when you use an actual phrase. Otherwise…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Display search results for only a part of the search word, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't think automatic cutting of search terms is a good choice here – it…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Weight per product category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you want to use the category ID, use a number, ie. has_term( 123, 'product_cat',…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Searching a phrase works well, but excerpt highlights a one word result, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When you search with a phrase, Relevanssi should not look for excerpts containing the individual…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Specific Page Search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi is not the right tool for this particular task. It never makes sense to…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Weight per product category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, you can give specific categories boost using the relevanssi_match filter hook. See "Weight from…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Display search results for only a part of the search word, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In order to be able to help you out here, what is the actual problem…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Can Relevanssi index a custom post Pods auto template which uses a shortcode, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Expanding shortcodes should do this if the shortcodes are built in the standard way, but…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Using Relevanssi on Woocommerce Custom Tabs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, I see; shortcodes are not expanded inside custom field content by default, that's why…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to ACF: Indexing relationship content in repeater, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The problem is probably in that the field is not called person, it's probably something…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Bricksbuilder compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I dropped you a note on the Making WordPress Slack.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Bricksbuilder compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, I see, that's a bit of a black box there. I'd really need the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Bricksbuilder compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Try Query Monitor. What kind of query the search results page runs? What is in…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to checkbox for category/fields filter ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, that's something Relevanssi doesn't provide. Relevanssi just takes whatever search parameters it is provided…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Trouble filtering products by geolocation WCFM, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unfortunately the documentation does not have a word on how the geolocation actually works. I'm…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Thumbnails in Search Results for Attached Media Files, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use wp_get_attachment_image() to get the thumbnails for the media files.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Search term with underscore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A review would do well. Thanks!

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Search term with underscore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, because you can already do this with filters. I have the same need on…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Does Relevanssi slow down website?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, this is not possible (well, it might be possible, but at least it's not…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Display post type with the search results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You need to ask your theme developer about this, because it’s a feature of your…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Search product category text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you make Relevanssi index the product category in the indexing settings, searching with the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Does Relevanssi slow down website?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Using Relevanssi won't increase the size of your user-visible pages and thus your bandwidth use.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Hide author and date in search results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You wouldn't find it in Relevanssi documentation, because it's not related to Relevanssi. What is…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Illegal string offset ‘taxonomy’, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi should be compatible with Polylang, and I can't reproduce this problem on my test…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevannsi indexing meta-data from Pagebuilder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It does have a nested comment, the "MOBILE VERSION" comment appears inside the JSON content.…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevannsi indexing meta-data from Pagebuilder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are nested comments in there? Can you please provide a full set of metadata…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?’ in common.php in line 22, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
PHP, Relevanssi requires PHP 7 and that's a very good idea overall, PHP 5.6 support…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to did you mean, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The instructions are here. The suggestions in the free version are indeed based on the…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Export the log, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi exports in UTF-8 format, so make sure you use the same character set when…

3 weeks ago