WAIT: Relevanssi + Bricks compatibility issue, not showing custom excerpts

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Bricks Version: Latest
Browser: Brave
OS: macOS

So I am trying to use Relevanssi – A Better Search – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org with Bricksbuilder, and I have read in the changelog of Bricksbuilder (version 1.3.2) that compatibility between the two was added, therefore I report this problem here, knowing that it is a 3rd party plug-in.

Relevanssi allows me to search through pages and blog posts on my bricks website, so far so good.
I have a custom search page template with a “post element” that is dynamically populated through these fields:
{post_title:link} {post_excerpt}

Now to the problem. When searching with Relevanssi enabled the {post_title:link} field is populated as expected, it shows pages and posts that were indexed.
But Relevanssi should also create a custom post excerpt that will show where the search result comes from. However, this feature seems to not be working properly with Bricks. When the search result is a blog post, it shows the standard post excerpt. When the search result is a page, the {post_excerpt} field stays empty. In either case it seems as if the Relevanssi custom excerpt is somehow not getting through to the Bricks {post_excerpt} field.

I already tried to contact the developer of Relevanssi and he posted the following response Custom Excerpts in Bricksbuilder | WordPress.org
indicating, that Bricks might get the {post_excerpt} data in a way that circumvents the standard way of how Wordpress does it and therefore does not work with Relevanssi.

So my question would be if this is indeed a bug that you guys can reproduce and if so, what possibilities do I have, to use Relevanssi, as the searchability of my page is a key feature.

Warm regards.

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Hi! have you solved this issue?

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No I haven’t solved it yet, so far I have postponed trying to find a solution but will have to do so soon. Please let me know if you figure out something of help.

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@timmse Any news here. I need to create a search results page with Relevanssi Premium, where excerpt texts are also needed!

Could you please give us an update or an ETA for a fix. Need to talk to my client when we can finish the search functionality for him!

Thanks and best regards
Michael

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Yea, it would be nice to have a fix at some point. I would also like to improve the search functionality for my client in the future.

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Is there any update on this?

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Hi guys,

So sorry and we missed out on this thread.

Please try to use this snippet for your query if want to support relavanssi on non-search pages.

// Replace the etjffc to your query ID brxe-etjffc => etjffc
add_filter( "bricks/posts/query_vars", function( $query_vars, $settings, $element_id ) {
  
	if( $element_id !== 'etjffc' ) return $query_vars;
	
	$query_vars['relevanssi'] = true;
	return $query_vars;
}, 100, 3);
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