relevanssi_do_query not honoring tax_query

Correct. Instead of tax_query, use “taxonomy” and “taxonomy_term”, and it should work. I’ll add this to my to-do list.

Thanks for the quick reply. Just to clarify, I add these fields to the args array?

I have tried this:

if(isset($post_tax)) {
   $args['taxonomy'] = $post_tax;
   $args['taxonomy_term'] = "video"; // hard code for testing
}

and also using the term id:

$args['taxonomy_term'] = 321;

Still the same result (getting results that are not in the queried taxonomy).

edit: Just want to mention I *am* indexing “faq-topic” as a custom taxonomy. I was not previously so I went back changed it and re-indexed, re-tried all methods listed above with same results.

I’m not sure – try putting them to $query->query_vars[‘taxonomy’] and $query->query_vars[‘taxonomy_term’] – that’s where Relevanssi will be looking for them, since that’s where they are when used in a query.

It has been some time since I was able to revisit this. I was hoping you might still have a suggestion or two to get this working.

I tried your suggestion above with the following code:

$query = new WP_Query($args);

            if(isset($post_tax)) {
                // I have used debug output to determine I *am* in the loop
                $query->query_vars['taxonomy'] = 'faq-topic';
                $query->query_vars['taxonomy_term'] = 'video'; // id: 321 (tried both by slug and by id)

            }

            relevanssi_do_query($query);

No luck with that either.

Well, that example is at least missing the search term ($query->query_vars[‘s’]).

Here is the more complete code. The search parameter is set in the args array:

// setup query args
            $args = array('s' => $_POST['query'],
                'post_type' => $post_type,
                'post_status' => array('publish')
            );

            $query = new WP_Query($args);

            if(isset($post_tax)) {
            /*
                $args['tax_query'] = array(
                                        array(
                                            'taxonomy' => 'faq-topic',
                                            'field' => 'id',
                                            'terms' => array(321)
                                        )
                                    );
             */ 

                $query->query_vars['taxonomy'] = 'faq-topic';
                $query->query_vars['taxonomy_term'] = 'video'; // id: 321
            }

            relevanssi_do_query($query);

edit: in case you are wondering why this might appear unorthodox for a search results page it is because it is actually being used to return the results to an AJAX call in order to populate a drop down with search hints similar to Wikipedia.

I’m currently rewriting the whole taxonomy search code to work with tax_query, but that’s how it should work in the current version.

I just released 3.1, which now supports tax_query.

Great to hear. Cannot wait to give it a try.

thanks