Mikko Saari – @msaari | WordPress.org

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 Excerpts When Multiple Hits on Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi does try to get a best match for the excerpt, with the naive idea…

55 seconds ago
Posted a reply to Move and rename Admin search menu, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The problem is that there's a hard-coded list of admin page hooks where Relevanssi will…

23 hours ago
Posted a reply to Words out of order in debug search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The Silicone Free Pump post does appear in the results. What you're seeing in the…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to When Oxygen is activated I can’t change Custom fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a known issue that will be fixed in the next version. If you…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Search by Post ID for Learndash course search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is a Learndash course in WP terms (assume I know nothing of Learndash)? Is…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Search by Post ID for Learndash course search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's no post_id parameter for the searchform shortcode. What that code does is to make…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly appearing \\n\\n line breaks in results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In that case Relevanssi is probably sending over good data and your theme mangles it…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly appearing \\n\\n line breaks in results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Look at the code I posted: there are no ampersands. Those ' should be plain…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly appearing \\n\\n line breaks in results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In theme functions.php: add_filter( 'relevanssi_excerpt', 'rlv_modify_excerpt' ); function rlv_modify_excerpt( $excerpt ) { // modify excerpt…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly appearing \\n\\n line breaks in results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's weird, as there are newlines in the excerpts where there are none in the…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly appearing \\n\\n line breaks in results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Since I can't see the site, I don't really know what the problem is. Can…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to HTML tag in product’s excerpt, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The solution from Relevanssi's point of view is simple: all the theme needs to do…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to HTML tag in product’s excerpt, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That code is unfortunately not helpful either. Printing out the content happens somewhere inside sahel_elated_get_search_page(),…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to HTML tag in product’s excerpt, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's a problem with your theme. It's escaping the HTML tags in the excerpts, when…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to no Read More links in snippets results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The content loop is printed out by astra_content_loop(), so you can't edit it here. This…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to no Read More links in snippets results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi doesn't, and isn't supposed to, add a read more link to the end of…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Indexing Running, but Debugging Post ID Finds Nothing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There shouldn't be anything tricky about indexing with Oxygen. It's just that all the content…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to didyoumean results stored in variable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The result is always returned, so you can just pick it up. Just set the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to I cannot add custom fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, that's true. I checked, and this way it works: add_action( 'init', function() { remove_filter(…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to I cannot add custom fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Congratulations, you have discovered a bug in Relevanssi. You can fix this by adding this…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to I can’t search by a 3 digit numeric string, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, I don't know anything about that, so unfortunately I can't help with that.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to I can’t search by a 3 digit numeric string, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For some reason Relevanssi is not using a search term at all there. Very hard…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to I can’t search by a 3 digit numeric string, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you try the same search in Relevanssi admin search (Dashboard > Admin search), does…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to zero hits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Change the function to this and then save the post: add_filter( 'relevanssi_remove_punctuation', 'swat_fix', 8 );…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to zero hits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Try save the post. Does that help?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to No posts show in search results Ask me theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's probably your theme then, it's doing very non-standard thing with the search. I don't…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Searching by SKU not working (it’s indexed), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
post_types is a correct parameter for post types with Relevanssi; other WooCommerce installations without Relevanssi…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to No posts show in search results Ask me theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That’s not the default WP search. Are you using FacetWP or Search & Filter? FacetWP…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Problem with some search words, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@shobha2208 You're in the wrong place then, and should be asking about this from Genesis…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi not searching titles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Could you please post a screenshot that would show where the taxonomy term matches appear…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Problem with some search words, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@suzyoo are you using custom excerpts in Relevanssi? Try disabling them. Does that help?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi not searching titles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you please show me a screenshot of the admin search so I can see?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Seeking The Fastest & Lightest Search Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi Light creates two options in the wp_options database table, and will remove them on…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Posts not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Does it solve the problem here if you disable the custom snippets?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Critical Error Doing a Search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Absolutely no idea, unless I see the error message. Please post the error message here…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Counting posts… 0 posts found., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi doesn't care about the database name; if WordPress works, Relevanssi should also work. Do…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Counting posts… 0 posts found., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What does the state of the index show? Is there a correct number of indexed…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Front-end search failure after upgrade today, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, lots of problems with FacetWP recently. Good to know that's the cause here as…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Posts not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looks like the search works on the background, as the categories and pagination seem to…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Posts not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you sure your front end search is Relevanssi in the first place? At least…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Posts not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can Relevanssi find anything? Is it just some posts that cannot be found?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to zero hits, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi sees "s.w.a.t." as "s w a t", and then just discards it. One way…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi not searching titles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Check the Relevanssi admin search (Dashboard > Admin search). Do you get the same results…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi not searching titles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, don't remove all stop words. They are important to make the search run faster,…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Undefined index: meta_key in file C:\\laragon\\www\\example\\wp-content\\plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi Premium support is here. However, since this question also applies to the free version,…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi not searching titles, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
"All", "around" and "us" are all stopwords. If you search for apples of gold, you'll…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Problem with some search words, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's hard to say. If you search for "ponnappa" with Relevanssi admin search (Dashboard >…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Relevanssi breaks site search if Oxygen Builder is being used, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Which versions? I have WP 5.6, Oxygen 3.6 and Relevanssi 4.10.2, and the search works…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Posts not found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure what's the situation with Relevanssi and Elementor right now is – at…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Seeking The Fastest & Lightest Search Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Query Monitor is the best tool. You don't even have to open it. When it's…

3 weeks ago