[Plugin: Relevanssi – A Better Search] Limit No. Of Search Pages Created

I suppose so, though the best way to handle this in my opinion is to set robots meta noindex on your search results pages (or block them in robots.txt).

Isn’t it possible to index the first page of search and noindex, follow the sub pages?

Thanks for prompt reply ??

Will this work:
DISALLOW: /search/*/page
to block all the pages except the first search page?

No, that won’t work in robots.txt, it doesn’t support wild cards like that.

Google recommends setting all search results pages to noindex, so I’d go with that, but if you want to noindex everything but the first page, you should do it with meta tags you set in WordPress – setting noindex on everything but the first page is not complicated that way.

Could you please help me out in this regard? I am not that great with Robots.txt handling.

Thanks ??

In your header template, add

<?php
global $wp_query;
if (is_search() && $wp_query->query_vars['page'] > 1)
echo "<meta name='robots' content='noindex' />";
?>

That should do the trick, I think.

Thanks for the code, I’ll implement it and see if it takes care of the errors.
Also, is there a way to restrict number or search results shown in Relenvassi? As of now it shows 10 results per page and maximum of 500 but if I could change this to 10 results per page with maximum of 10 i.e only show 10 results of the search performed. This will not create sub pages and hence no duplication in search engine.

I tried to implement this by editing the plugin file and changed the following code

add_filter('relevanssi_query_filter', 'relevanssi_limit_filter');
function relevanssi_limit_filter($query) {
	if (get_option('relevanssi_throttle', 'on') == 'on') {
		return $query . " ORDER BY tf DESC LIMIT 10";

~Changed 500 to 10~
But this didn’t work :/
IMO this will be better option.

That doesn’t work, as it’s ten hits per search term.

Use the relevanssi_hits_filter and trim the $hits[0] array to desired length.

$filter_data = array($hits, $q);
	$hits_filters_applied = apply_filters('relevanssi_hits_filter', $filter_data);
	$hits = $hits_filters_applied[10];

Did what you said. Changes the $hits_filters_applied[0] array to 10 but upon doing so, the search page for all the terms yielded “No Search Results”.

Tried the php code as well, didn’t work. Got the following error:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in <directory url>

Try this

add_filter('relevanssi_hits_filter', 'cuttoten');
function cuttoten($hits) {
$ten = array_slice($hits, 0, 10);
return array($ten);
}

That’s how you take the ten first hits from the $hits array.