Mikko Saari – @msaari | WordPress.org

Member Since: June 9th, 2008
Location: Tampere, Finland
Website: relevanssi.com
GitHub: msaari
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 Fix shortcode to work with Relevanssi, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The problem here is that shortcodes should never ever echo anything out. A shortcode should…

1 hour ago
Posted a reply to WP / Woocommerce admin search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, looks like you need to have. Whether it's necessary or not depends on the…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to WP / Woocommerce admin search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That setting is indeed only for backend use. Is your front end search a some…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to WP / Woocommerce admin search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How exactly is this interfering with the front end search? What is happening? How are…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to How to adjust weight of indexed custom fields in search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Custom field weighting is something you need to do in code. Here are some examples…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to excluding certain page content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, let's do that.

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Search term matches items not on site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I tried your site. For starters, I get different search fields with Chrome and Firefox,…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Exclude search result with certain query vars, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can look at the wp_relevanssi database table to see if the acf-field posts appear…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to excluding certain page content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Since you're running Relevanssi on the site, it must exist. Just copy and paste from…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Exclude search result with certain query vars, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In the Relevanssi settings; if you don't see it, you're not running the latest version.…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Exclude search result with certain query vars, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you look at the Relevanssi debugging tab and ask for how Relevanssi sees the…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Exclude search result with certain query vars, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi should never include acf-field in the results in the first place, the post type…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to excluding certain page content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks. How does the banner look like in the actual raw post content?

7 days ago
Posted a reply to excluding certain page content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, the noindex shortcode is your friend then, you just have to edit your pages.…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to excluding certain page content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes. Relevanssi has a shortcode noindex you can use to exclude content from search, anything…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to WP / Woocommerce admin search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What you have there almost worked for me. Changing the second function to this made…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Specific post(s) are not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The post is not indexed for some reason, and thus cannot be found. Does rebuilding…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Searching by SKU not working (it’s indexed), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think there's something wrong with the template. Relevanssi is clearly working fine here, as…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Search RSS feed content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, it's even stricter with this, as it only works with what's in your wp_posts…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Specific post(s) are not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you look at that post with the tool you can find on the Debugging…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Search RSS feed content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's possible, if you can store the feed items as a custom post type. If…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Since 4.9: Sometimes Excerpts are empty, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you give me some examples of searches that fail to produce excerpts? Otherwise there's…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Excerpts not displaying correctly after 4.9.0 plugin update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, that hid the issue, but also lost you the custom excerpts. What happened in…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Cookies created by plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi does not do anything in the front end, so no cookies either. (The one…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Undefined index post_type pretty-links.php line 26, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's a typo. The line 26 has $query->query['post_type'] but it should be $query->query_vars['post_type'] I'm releasing…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Version 4.8.3 and PHP 7.4 compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, Relevanssi is being developed in PHP 7.4.1 environment, and actually it's the other way…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce wc_get_products, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm sure that won't invoke Relevanssi. Relevanssi interacts with the WP search by taking over…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to index content within shortcodes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Try disabling the custom code snippet for a while and rebuilding the index after that,…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to index content within shortcodes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, Relevanssi now has built in Oxygen support; if Oxygen is present, Relevanssi will index…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce wc_get_products, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, I see, you don't know how Relevanssi works. Relevanssi doesn't query posts directly using…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Javascript TypeError when clicking Process All Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's an oversight in the code, I'll add that any in there. Thanks!

2 weeks ago
Committed [2417882] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 1.2

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WooCommerce wc_get_products, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is there any documentation available for the upcoming changes in the WooCommerce? I don't really…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Javascript TypeError when clicking Process All Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That would happen if Relevanssi Light fetches the posts, but doesn't actually get any posts.…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2417703] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 4.9.0

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Indexing fails, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This problem is caused by post exclusions; Relevanssi can sometimes get stuck when too many…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Organize search results by taxonomy key, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If that explanation is not enough, explaining it in sufficient detail goes way beyond what…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Organize search results by taxonomy key, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On basic level this isn't a hard thing to do. In your search results template,…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to determine exactly which custom fields contain certain content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I guess the easiest way is to look at the custom fields in the wp_postmeta…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Does not clean up, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When this plugin is deleted, it will leave all its dat…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Mistä ilmaisia (tai halpoja) themejä?, on the site Suomi Support Forums:
Mahtaakohan teema tukea kyseistä ominaisuutta ollenkaan? Voi olla, että teemassa on tuki vain yhden tason…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Does not clean up at delete, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When this plugin is deleted, it will leave all its dat…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Exact Single Word Search not showing first, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, I see. The exact match bonus doesn't actually help here, it has the same…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi and Pretty Links compatibility issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The Pretty Links are posts. If you check the "Use Relevanssi for admin searches" option…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Search keyword in get_posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Change that to $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'ASC',…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Custom instruction in search bar?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure. That's up to your theme, though. You could use the placeholder attribute, for example:…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Exact Single Word Search not showing first, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In that case do not adjust the hyphen indexing setting, but instead enable the "Exact…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Exact Single Word Search not showing first, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
All of these posts have the word 210 in the title, that's why they are…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to No results with Divi 4.6.1 Theme Builder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please don't post to a thread about something else, instead start a new thread. Nobody…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Display partials after whole words in results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please start a new thread instead of posting to a three-month old thread. In your…

4 weeks ago