[Plugin: Relevanssi – A Better Search] Search Images within a Post

1. In Settings > Relevanssi, make sure “attachment” is checked in the “Choose post types to index:” list.

2. Make sure “post_tag” is checked in the “Choose taxonomies to index” list below.

3. Save options, rebuild the index.

Now search for an image tag. Do you get a single image in the search results?

Hi Mikko,

Thanks a lot for replying.

I just tried out what you said, and its half success and half failure. The relevanssi does index all my tags and even suggests it when I start writing on the search bar. (Previously I had not achieved that). And when I type in the tag and hit enter, the result comes up with “Hello World” sample post instead of images.

Now to clarify, I am using Nextgen gallries and I did even tick the checkboxes where it says ngg_pictures, ngg_galleries. But still no success.

Any help will be appreciated.

Sorry, but you’re out of luck here, Relevanssi doesn’t work with Nextgen like that.

Hi Mikko,

I just simplified my website. I am not using nextGen anymore. All I am doing is uploading gallery through WordPress default feature. That is ==> first creating a post ==> add media ==> create gallery ==> upload images ==> set images as “attachments”.

So after doing that, I indexed relevanssi, and as a result it does find my image, however, on the search page it shows that image as a post, rather than directly showing that image.

What I mean is when I click on search, a page comes up with a post containing the relevant image. I then have to click on the post, and a new page opens up containing the image. I then have to click on the image to open it via lightbox.

How can I directly get to the required page containing the image? I hope thats possible through Relevanssi.

Thanks

That has actually little to do with Relevanssi, it’s up to your theme and the search results template in your theme. You need to modify the template so that if a post is an image (it has a post_type of “attachment”), it is not shown as a post, but as an image.