Not Searching Events

First: do you have Relevanssi 4.0.2? If not, update now, try again and let me know if the problem persists.

If the problem remains after the update, does clicking “Index unindexed posts” index those remaining posts, or do they stay excluded?

The indexing doesn’t get stuck –?it just keeps repeating “Indexed 60 posts” because that’s how many it can index on one go (Relevanssi indexes as many as it can in up to 10 seconds). The total number of indexed posts is 1370, which is better than 60, but certainly not everything.

I do have 4.02 installed. I ran Index Unindexed Posts and it indexed the remaining posts. Cleared cache. Ran a search. Still not searching Events.

Your theme is restricting the post types. If you force the post type to a1ec_event, the events show up: https://www.jmoreliving.com/?s=nutcracker&post_types=ai1ec_event

How do I force it to unrestrict the post types? I do have a message in to the theme maker. Weird part is that somehow it is working on the same theme on the dev version of this site. I thought it was maybe because the dev site has maybe 100 posts and the live has 2700.

I don’t know how the theme is restricting the post type, but this should help:

add_filter('relevanssi_modify_wp_query', 'rlv_force_post_types');
function rlv_force_post_types($query) {
    $query->query_vars['post_types'] = "post,ai1ec_event";
    return $query;
}

Add to the list the post types you want included and add this to your theme functions.php.

That works. It does show expired events in the results. I guess there is no way around that since removing expired would also hide expired articles on the website. I’ve also been asked to remove the byline for just Event results. I’ll see if I can figure that out too.Thanks for the help.

To remove the expired events, a good solution is to add a filter function on relevanssi_hits_filter hook that goes through the posts and removes the expired events.

add_filter('relevanssi_hits_filter', 'rlv_remove_expired');
function rlv_remove_expired($hits) {
    $non_expired = array();
    $now = time("Y-m-d");
    foreach ($hits[0] as $hit) {
        $event_date = get_post_meta($hit->ID, 'event_date', true);
        if (!empty($event_date) && $event_date < $now) continue;
        $non_expired = $hit;
    }
    $hits[0] = $non_expired;
    return $hits;
}

Something like this.

I appreciate the additional code, however, it seems to break the search functionality entirely. I did a search for “Motor House” using the previous unfiltered code which showed the expired Event on the first page of results at the bottom. It showed pages of results Events, Posts, and Pages.

I switched that code out for the new filtered version. When I did the same search I get “No Results”

I have removed both pieces of code for the moment.

That wasn’t functional code, just an example of how it can be done. For starters, I have no idea what’s the name of the event date custom field, “event_date” was just a placeholder. So no wonder it doesn’t work. That’s, however, the principle how expired events are removed.

I apologize. I misunderstood. Let me see if I can figure it out using this code as base for experimentation.

Mikko,

I have been playing around with the code for hours now. One thing I discovered is a flaw in your code. If I put just this in:

add_filter('relevanssi_modify_wp_query', 'rlv_force_post_types');
function rlv_force_post_types($query) {
    $query->query_vars['post_types'] = "post,ai1ec_event";
    return $query;
}
add_filter('relevanssi_hits_filter', 'rlv_remove_expired');
function rlv_remove_expired($hits) {
    $non_expired = array();
    foreach ($hits[0] as $hit) {
	   $non_expired = $hit;
   }
   $hits[0] = $non_expired;
    return $hits;
}

It generates no results. If I change the code to this”array_push”:

add_filter('relevanssi_modify_wp_query', 'rlv_force_post_types');
function rlv_force_post_types($query) {
    $query->query_vars['post_types'] = "post,ai1ec_event";
    return $query;
}
add_filter('relevanssi_hits_filter', 'rlv_remove_expired');
function rlv_remove_expired($hits) {
    $non_expired = array();
    foreach ($hits[0] as $hit) {
	   array_push($non_expired, $hits);
   }
   $hits[0] = $non_expired;
    return $hits;
}

It give me results, but no content. Meaning it shows “by:” and no meta data. It looks like this. It shows 5 formatted but blank results.:

<article id="post-" class="et_pb_post">
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href=""></a></h2>
<p class="post-meta"> by <span class="author vcard"></span> | <span class="published"></span></p>
<p class="ArchiveReadMore"><a href="" class="more-link">read more</a></p>
</article>

So is there some way to get the actual content to show in that scenario? The filtering of expired I think I figured out, but I need the results to show.

Indeed, it was supposed to be $non_expired[] = $hit;

So it should be array_push($non_expired, $hit); in your case. That should show you content and include every post.

Then just add the check for expiry date and skip the posts that have expired.

Using $non_expired[] = $hit; now and the results are SHOWING. THANK YOU! Very close to having this working. Just need to grab the end date from the events plugin and I should be golden. I really appreciate your help with this.