Upper limit for most common words?

That limit is set by your server running out of memory.

Enable “Limit searches” option in Relevanssi settings. If you have already enabled it, adjust the limit to a lower number.

Thanks Mikko.

Setting the limit to 1,700 allows the results to be show, but does not (obviously) include all the documents. “Sacred” is the one category word in particular that my users would like to use on its own, and to show all its 1,861 results. I will need to think of another way to do this.

Many thanks for a great plug-in,
JohnF

You need to return each and every result? In most cases, search only needs to return the best 10, and users almost never go to the second page. If you’re really showing all results on one results page (which this sounds like), then yes, you’re bound to have memory issues and in that Relevanssi is not the solution for you.

For a more typical search experience where showing 10-20 results per page is enough, something like 400-500 is a good value for the limit.

Hi Mikko,
Yes, I eventually realised that Relevanssi wasn’t the solution. Instead I have used the Categories and Tags to display the results:

https://www.johnfletchermusic.org

Perhaps it’s a good idea for me to make those common words numbering 1,000 and above stopwords.

Thanks for your help,
JohnF

Probably not, as many of them seem like useful search terms, even when they are common (like “soprano”, “tenor” and so on; “mp3”, “music”, “full” may be useful stopwords).