Title: Relevant Search
Author: Luis A. Ochoa
Published: <strong>February 22, 2011</strong>
Last modified: February 9, 2019

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/relevant-search/assets/icon.svg?rev=1993900)

# Relevant Search

 By [Luis A. Ochoa](https://profiles.wordpress.org/albertochoa/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/relevant-search.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/relevant-search/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/relevant-search/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/relevant-search/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/relevant-search/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/relevant-search/)

## Description

Relevant Search will provide contextual search and listing the results based on 
relevance. It automatically replaces the default WordPress search.

No configuration required.

#### MySQL Documentation

 * [Full-Text Search Functions](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-search.html)
 * [Natural Language Full-Text Searches](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-natural-language.html)
 * [Regular Expressions](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/regexp.html)

## Installation

 1. Unzip the relevant-search.zip folder.
 2. Upload the relevant-search folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory.
 3. In your WordPress dashboard, head over to the Plugins section.
 4. Activate Relevant Search.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Relevant Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Luis A. Ochoa ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/albertochoa/)

[Translate “Relevant Search” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/relevant-search)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevant-search/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/relevant-search/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/relevant-search/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/relevant-search/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.0

 * Code cleanup
 * Tested up to 5.0

#### 1.0.1

 * Rebuild the Full-Text Index when needed
 * Fixed a bug in ‘posts_request’ filter
 * Comments in english
 * Cleaned up the code

#### 1.0.0

 * First public release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.0**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.22**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevant-search/)
 * Tags
 * [better search](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/better-search/)[relevant](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/relevant/)
   [relevant search](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/relevant-search/)[search](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
   [search results](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search-results/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/relevant-search/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Luis A. Ochoa ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/albertochoa/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/relevant-search/)