Fix your WordPress search!

WordPress search doesn’t search everything, and doesn’t give you enough control over what is searched and how. Relevanssi gives you full access and full control, with plenty of filters and ways to make Relevanssi work the way you want your search to work.

PDF contents Relevanssi can read the text from your PDFs, index it and search it! Read more about indexing PDFs.

Multisite searches Relevanssi can run searches across many subsites in the same multisite network.

Custom fields Relevanssi will find the content in your custom fields, including things like WooCommerce SKUs, ACF field content or whatever it is you store in custom fields. Read more about custom field search.

User profiles Yes, Relevanssi will find users by their names and profile descriptions.

Taxonomy terms No matter if you prefer categories, tags or custom taxonomies, Relevanssi will return the term archive pages in searches!

Shortcode output Relevanssi can expand shortcodes and find content generated by shortcodes.

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Matt H

I wanted to boost the regular search function for a website that
contains many documents. I wanted to achieve that searching could be
performed much more accurately and visitors are served faster. For this
I bought the Relevanssi premium plugin. I received fantastic and fast
help for the installation. I strongly recommend going a step further and
buy the premium version!

Bart / NL34

I’d just like to give a shout out to how awesome this plugin is (Premium version). I have a site with pages, standard posts and a custom post for a document library where a couple gigs of PDFs are stored on AWS S3 using another plugin, and Relevanssi does a full-text index of all of it and returns context-sensitive results in less than a second. Plus good documentation and a responsive developer. This is the stuff of dreams.

Nancy Hildebrandt

Relevanssi comes in two flavours. Free version of Relevanssi is available from WordPress Plugin Repository. It does the job and has over 1,600,000 downloads and more than 100,000 active installations and many satisfied users. For those who want something better, there's Relevanssi Premium, which you can buy here.

So why go Premium, when the free version is available?

Guaranteed support. Free version users get support if I have enough time available.
Additional features. Relevanssi is developed actively and new features are added. Free version users won't get the new features, or get them long after Premium users have enjoyed them.
Future development. More users for Relevanssi Premium means I can spend more time developing the plugin.

See Relevanssi Premium prices and buy yours here!

There are two different licensing options:

Annual is valid for a year and provides access to upgrades and support. Once a year has passed, the plugin will still work, but you won’t get access to upgrades, support or attachment indexing services, until you renew the license.
Permanent gives you lifetime access to upgrades and support.

Both licenses let you use Relevanssi on unlimited number of sites, Relevanssi use is not restricted to a limited number of sites.

The annual license include support and upgrades for a year. It is not a subscription: once a year has passed, the license expires and you need to renew if you want it to continue, but you will not be billed automatically.

The wrong content gets indexed for a post

Sometimes Relevanssi can get confused and indexes the post content under the wrong post ID. The main symptoms for this are: You can confirm this problem by checking the posts involved with the Relevanssi debugger that shows how Relevanssi has indexed the post. If you have this specific problem, you’ll find that the posts either…

Premium 2.29 / Free 4.26

2.29.0 / 4.26.0 This release includes a security fix to stop a SQL injection vulnerability. With this vulnerability users with at least Contributor role on your site can execute SQL code. The rest of the updates are small bug fixes. Click tracking and pinning work more reliably and synced patterns are handled better.

Translation and multilingual plugins

Different translation plugins use different methods for storing the translations, and these methods have varying compatibility with how Relevanssi works with the posts. Best compatibility Not compatible

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October 17, 2025 by Mikko Saari

Disable in-page highlights on a specific page

Sometimes there’s a need to disable the in-page highlighting on specific pages. Perhaps the feature works fine on most pages, but some pages have content that is broken by the highlighting. In theory, disabling the feature is very simple: remove the relevanssi_highlight_in_docs filter function from the the_content hook for that page. In practise, getting it…