Search Excerpt does not include Shortcode Results

Is the “Use custom field content for building excerpts” option checked in the Relevanssi Excerpts and highlights tab, and is it listing the correct shortcodes?

Gutenberg should not affect the excerpts. Also, it looks like indexing works and the problem is only in the excerpts. Has anything changed in how your theme displays the excerpts?

The “Use custom field content for building excerpts” option is checked and in the indexing tab, the option “Custom Fields” is set to all.

Nothing has changed in the theme. The only updates are new versions of WordPress.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by synthesiamaniac.

Furthermore, I noticed that the “Breakdown of search results” feature is not working either.
The box “Show the breakdown of search hits in the excerpts” is checked and the breakdown format is defined as:

(Search hits: %body% on page)

If the breakdown is not showing up, then there’s a good reason to assume the excerpts are not generated by Relevanssi at all.

Is your theme using the_excerpt() to print out the excerpts, or perhaps something else?

I am using the Customizr theme and it should be using the_excerpt() to print out the page excerpts. The theme has not been modified so that functionality should not have changed, unless updates to WordPress changed the way the excerpt function works. It was orginally working back when the plugin was first installed.

Is there a way to test if the_excerpt() is being used?

The best way to test is to make changes to Relevanssi excerpt settings (or disable the excerpts completely) and see if that changes the excerpts.

You can also debug your excerpt function, because that’s likely the part that’s not working:

add_filter( 'relevanssi_excerpt_content', 'rlv_excerpt', 10, 2 );
function rlv_excerpt( $content, $post ) {
	var_dump( $content );
	$content = preg_replace( '#<td class="filesize".*?</td>#', '<br />', $content );
	var_dump( $content );
	return $content;
}

If you change the function to that, then search for “linkin park”, what does it print out?

So after adding in various filters to test the functionality of Relevanssi, it seemed like everything was configured correct. After some additional debugging, I found that the plugin “Give”, after the latest update, is blocking or breaking the excerpt functionality of the plugin. Disabling that fixed the problem.

Now, for one final question….
I added two filters, as previously mentioned, to organize the excerpt in a list fashion and remove the file size label. However, occasionally I get a <\> or \> symbol in the excerpt and sometimes the text “file size”.

How can I remove that code that is being inserted into the excerpt and remove the table headers from the excerpt? The “name” and “file size” text comes from the headers on the tables where the download links are organized.

For example, if the term “link” is searched for, the results page generates this:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past File Size The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past – Credits 
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures File Size The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures… (Search hits: 3 on page)

The results are not in the list format and the text “File Size” is visible.

You can modify the filter so that it will also remove the table headers, like this:

add_filter( 'relevanssi_excerpt_content', 'rlv_excerpt', 10, 2 );
function rlv_excerpt( $content, $post ) {
	$content = preg_replace( '#<th.*?</th>#', '<br/>', $content );
	$content = preg_replace( '#<td class="filesize".*?</td>#', '<br/>', $content );
	return $content;
}

As for the extra symbols, not sure about that –?Relevanssi shouldn’t split HTML tags in excerpts. I made a small change in the function above which may help.

Thank you very much!!
Everything is working as it should now.