=== Relevanssi Live Ajax Search ===
Contributors: msaari
Tags: search, live, ajax
Requires at least: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.1
Stable tag: 2.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Template powered live search for any WordPress theme. Compatible with Relevanssi search!
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search enables ajax live search for your search forms. It won't swamp you with settings, and generally, Relevanssi Live Ajax Search works without any modifications necessary. If you want to customize it, you have complete control over how it works and what it does.
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search displays the search results using templates. You can easily override the default templates from your theme to make the results look the way you want them to look.
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search only provides you with live search results. To get really good results, use Relevanssi, Relevanssi Premium or Relevanssi Light. Relevanssi Live Ajax Search automatically uses Relevanssi to power the search results if Relevanssi is installed and active. However, you don't need Relevanssi; Relevanssi Live Ajax Search also works with the default WP search.
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search is a fork of SearchWP Live Ajax Search. I forked it from version 1.6.1 because it looked like SearchWP Live Ajax Search wasn't getting updates anymore. I also wanted to improve the Relevanssi compatibility.
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search drops all SearchWP compatibility. You can use SearchWP Live Ajax Search, which has built-in SearchWP support.
The widget has also been removed. It was unnecessary and outdated.
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search can now take over the Gutenberg core/search
search form.
Feel free to open up issues at https://github.com/msaari/relevanssi-live-ajax-search.
- Install the plugin from the WordPress plugin screen.
- Activate the plugin.
- That's it! Most of the time, that's all you need.
If Relevanssi Live Ajax Search does not automatically attach itself to your search form, you can enable it by adding a single HTML5 data attribute (data-rlvlive="true"
) to the input field of your search form. You can find more information in the plugin documentation.
Relevanssi Live Ajax Search uses a template loader, making it easy to replace the search results. There is a templates
folder in the plugin folder, which includes search-results.php
. This file is the template used to output search results. To customize the search results:
- Create a folder called
relevanssi-live-ajax-search
in your theme directory. - Copy the
search-results.php
file into the new folder. - Relevanssi Live Ajax Search will now use that file to show the results.
If you want to override the default CSS styles, you can remove them this way:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_live_search_base_styles', '__return_false' );
This filter hook removes the base styles that control the live search result position.
wp_dequeue_style( 'relevanssi-live-search' );
This removes the actual search result styles.
It does, Astra search form is just designed in a way that hides the search results. You can find solutions in the plugin documentation. The easiest solution is adding this to your theme functions.php
:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_live_search_add_result_div', '__return_false' );
There's a filter for that! Add this to your theme functions.php or in a code snippet:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_live_search_posts_per_page', function() { return 10; } );
This will show 10 results. You can adjust the number as you wish.
For some reason, the combination of Relevanssi Live Ajax Search, Relevanssi and WPML leads to problems. To solve this problem, use the WP_Query
mode of fetching the results. To activate the mode, add this to your theme functions.php:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_live_search_mode', function() { return 'wp_query'; } );
This will make Relevanssi Live Ajax Search use a different method of fetching the results. This method is compatible with WPML. This method uses the search-results-query.php
template instead of the default search-results.php
template in Relevanssi Live Ajax Search, so take note if you want to customize the template to use the right base template for your customization.
- The search form now also responds to the
input
event, which makes the search respond to context menu paste. - You can now override the default messages template by placing your custom template in the
relevanssi-live-ajax-search
directory in your theme. - New filter hook
relevanssi_live_search_messages_template
can be used to filter the messages template. - The filter hook
relevanssi_live_search_get_template_part
has an extra parameter for the context of the template: it can beresults
ormessages
, depending which template is loaded.
- Stops errors when editing a page with a Gutenberg search block in it.
- New parameter
static_offset
helps when the JS counts the result box offset wrong. Setting this tofalse
may solve these problems. - Fixes missing spinners: spinners only appeared in the first search form of the page.
- Renames the
has-spinner
class torlv-has-spinner
to avoid collisions with other plugins. - Include an updated version of spinner SCSS in the plugin instead of getting an outdated version from npm.
- The
relevanssi_live_search_control_plugins_during_search
functionality has been removed. - The search now uses a CSS spinner instead of the old Javascript spinner.
- Improved accessibility: the instructions for screen reader users are moved from the
aria-label
parameter to a separatespan
element that is hidden from sight.
- Fixes the
relevanssi_live_search_base_styles
filter hook, which was in reverse: now it works as expected and disables styles when you give itfalse
.
- Adds automatic hijack for WooCommerce product search form.
- The way this plugin uses
query_posts()
can lead to problems (for example with WPML). It is now possible to use a newWP_Query
instead, which is safer. - New filter hook
relevanssi_live_search_mode
controls which mode is used:query_posts
(the default value) is the old way, any other value uses WP_Query. - There's a new template file
search-results-query.php
. This template is used for theWP_Query
method.
- Improved accessibility: screen reader users get better notifications of what's happening.
- Improved accessibility: the default location for the search results is now the next tab stop from the search form, within div#rlvlive_1.
- Removes JQuery migration deprecation warnings.
- The search results now show the total number of results found. These changes are in the default template, so if you're using a custom template, check the default template.
- New filter hook
relevanssi_live_search_status_location
controls where the total is displayed ('before', 'after' or nowhere for any other value, in which case only the screen reader status is added). - New filter hook
relevanssi_live_search_add_result_div
controls whether an extra div is added for the results. - If Relevanssi is available, searches that find no results show 'Did you mean' suggestions.
- First version based on the version 1.6.1 of SearchWP Live Ajax Search.
- You can now override the messages template.
- New
static_offset
parameter, fixed spinners.
- Rename the CSS spinner class name.
- New CSS spinner, accessibility improvements.
- Fixes the
relevanssi_live_search_base_styles
hook.
- Support for automatic hijacking of WooCommerce product search forms.
- New compatibility mode for better third-party compatibility.
- Accessibility improvements and new features.
- First release, based on SearchWP Live Ajax Search 1.6.1.