Taxing Troubles – Pun Intended

I am having a hard time with the learning curve and finding the proper information to accomplish what I need. I am using WordPress as a separate CMS and the site is not housed within WordPress itself.

That being said, I have always been accessible to all of the amazing WordPress engine has to offer even from outside and therefore I had built a fairly elaborate search engine using only the simple WordPress search with WP_Query. I know a lot of people complain about it but in all honesty it saved me a lot of time making models and controller just for the simple CRUD of it all.

Now the problem, I have recently been asked to have my search engine built around relevance. I quickly found this plugin and now I need to figure out how to do more then just the relevanssi_do_query() with simple query_vars. I need to use all of my tax stuff that I was previously using before changing to Relevanssi. I previously would have kept it within the args variable passed into my WP_Query Obj and was doing a simple

‘tax_query’ => array(array (‘taxonomy’ => $tax,
‘field’ => ‘slug’,
‘terms’ => $tax_term->slug,
)

within my args.

I need to figure out how to include my custom taxonomy with custom post type stuff. I have it all indexed and I can see it storing the relevant info in the database, I just can’t seem to get taxonomy information included in my search result objects.

Whats the best way to accomplish this? I also have already tried clicking the boxes in the admin panel that had my custom taxonomy name, thats how it ended up indexed and in the DB. But I just can’t get it in my return objects as a member var.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/