Title: [Plugin: Relevanssi] Author Search? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Relevanssi] Author Search? * [bgajus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgajus/) * (@bgajus) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/) * Hey msaari, I hadn’t checked this yet in the settings but was wondering if there is a way to search by author name and have it return all posts by that author. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/relevanssi/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/relevanssi/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 29 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604162) * Currently not possible, but something I can add. * Thread Starter [bgajus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgajus/) * (@bgajus) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604238) * I can see it being valuable if you have a site with multiple authors. Of course if you set up your theme properly, you can always link to the author’s archive. Buy yeah it wouldn’t hurt to be able to search in the search field for an author. No rush….maybe something to add down the road. Thanks!! BTW – Plugin is working great for me. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604385) * It’s fairly simple addition to make, so I’ll probably add it for the next version. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604488) * This will be included in the version 2.0. * [serenasme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serenasme/) * (@serenasme) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604563) * Hi msaari, I have wordpress 3.0.4 version. Relevanssi 2.6 (the last one). The problem is that Relevanssi can’t find authors’ name. I have obviously select the option: “Index and search your posts’ authors” and then I have rebuild the index. In the template the author’s name is recall by “the_author_posts_link();” function. So, why I can’t find my authors? I have more than 400 authors. If their names are not inside the post (text article) then Relevanssi don’t find them. For all the rest your plugin is working great (even in custom fields’ search). Thank you so much. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604565) * If you choose the option, authors are indexed. Relevanssi indexes the display name of the author. If you can’t find anything when searching for the authors’ display names, I don’t know what’s going on. * [coolakul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolakul/) * (@coolakul) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604566) * Hi, I have used Relevanssi on my website [http://www.pharmaxchange.info/press](http://www.pharmaxchange.info/press) The funny thing is it does not index pages by administrators in my case. Is there a solution for this. The admin name is akul First name – Akul Last name – Mehta * Please check and let me know if there are any solutions to rectify it and index those posts as well. * regards, Akul. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604567) * By default Relevanssi indexes every post. There’s no way to exclude posts by certain author from the index. * [coolakul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolakul/) * (@coolakul) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604568) * You can go to the website and try it out yourself :). I don’t know whats going on. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604569) * I went and checked. If I search for “enolates”, Relevanssi retrieves a post you’ve written. So they’re in the index, and the problem is they can’t be found with the author name? Can’t help you with that, sorry. I’ll check the code to see if there’s a bug. What’s your “display name”? * [serenasme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serenasme/) * (@serenasme) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604570) * It’s the same for my site. [http://new.fucinemute.it/](http://new.fucinemute.it/) If you search for example “Marta Zacchigna” there aren’t results (no Marta’s posts). * But if you see her author page, then you will see she wrote 17 articles. [http://new.fucinemute.it/author/marta-zacchigna/](http://new.fucinemute.it/author/marta-zacchigna/) Obviously her articles are in the index, but there isn’t any reference to her name. * Her display_name in DB is Marta Zacchigna. * Maybe some conflict with other plugins? Thank you so much. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604571) * Ok, I’ll have to investigate. Maybe there’s some sort of bug. * Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * (@msaari) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604572) * Ok, there’s indeed a bug. Looks like author names are being indexed, but in a way that doesn’t really work. If the author has a one-word display name, search should work just fine. If, like most folks, the author has a two-part name, it won’t work. I’ll fix this in 2.7. * [serenasme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serenasme/) * (@serenasme) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604573) * Yesssss!! You’re great! I’ve checked. One-word display name is founded!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m waiting for 2.7! 😉 * [coolakul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolakul/) * (@coolakul) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/#post-1604574) * same here looking forward to 2.7 now 🙂 hope you release it soon Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 29 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘[Plugin: Relevanssi] Author Search?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/relevanssi/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3529670) * [Relevanssi - A Better Search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/relevanssi/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/relevanssi/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/relevanssi/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/relevanssi/reviews/) * 29 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/) * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-author-search/page/2/#post-1604590) * Status: not resolved