Autocomplete sort on relevance

Hi @atelier64

The drag-n-drop ordering in the WP admin for the autocomplete section is more for ordering the subcategories, as you’ve generally already noticed. If you were to use just “All Posts” in that section, that will instead just use the searchable_posts index that the “Search Page” settings can also set up. The order that those actual results show up in, becomes dictated by Algolia at that point. That’s where configuration would come into the most play.

Have you done any settings/configuration updates via code so far? Or have you primarily just adjusted in your Algolia.com dashboard that way? Either way is valid.

Thank you for your reply.
I found the All posts row. But the problem is that I can’t use that because there are post types that should not be found. Probably there is an option or possibility to not make all posts findable (searchable_posts) in the All posts indexing?

I did not make any custom configuration in the plugin (except css).
Also in Algolia I didn’t make many adjustments. I mainly use the synonyms there.

The searchable posts index is based on the “exclude from search” parameter for a given post type during registration. If it’s excluded there, then it doesn’t get considered for this index.

Noted on not doing any settings customization thus far outside of synonyms, the rest is still going to be based on their engine determining relevance though for results and order coming in though. So you’ll want to tweak settings there.

When I now select All posts in the Autocomplete section, all posts are showing. That’s actually what I was looking for. I’m not completely satisfied with the results yet. I will optimize that.

I found how to exclude the post types from search in registration post type for my own post types I created.
Now I have only selected “All posts”. But when I also select another custom post type (cars), that has ‘exclude_from_search’ => true, than I see them in the results… So selecting another post type will override the exclude from search?

In the Autocomplete list I see In addition to my post types, a lot of other registrations from other plugins such as Flamingo, cookie plugin, tags,…
I see there are codes to make certain post types not searchable via functions.php if 1 of these could be found.

Many thanks.
You made me find the right solution.

But when I also select another custom post type (cars), that has ‘exclude_from_search’ => true, than I see them in the results… So selecting another post type will override the exclude from search?

The autocomplete page and the checkboxes there create their own indexes in your Algolia Dashboard and those aren’t beholden to exclude_from_search conditional parameters. So they’d once again show up in their own little section as part of the autocomplete experience.

I also know we have the following two filters: algolia_excluded_post_types and algolia_excluded_taxonomies which I’m decently certain can be used to whittle down some of that Autocomplete settings list.

You can see the core post types and some other 3rd party types that we exclude already at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/wp-search-with-algolia/blob/main/includes/class-algolia-settings.php#L122-L171