Single result on the search page

Which search version do you have configured presently? I’m not seeing hints of Instantsearch so I’m suspecting it’s the “Use with Native Search Template.”

Have you checked and verified that the wp_searchable_posts index in your Algolia dashboard has records in it?

Thank you for your response.

Yes, I have 273 records in wp_searchable_posts in Algolia.

Can the problem be caused by the code snippet that I use. I only want to index specific pages and exclude everything else. Sorry, I forgot to notice it in my initial post.

function my_exclude_custom_post_type( array $exclude ) {
    $exclude[] = 'post';

    return $exclude;
}
add_filter( 'algolia_excluded_post_types', 'my_exclude_custom_post_type' );

function algolia_exclude_extra( $should_index, $post ) {
    // Check if the post type is 'page'
    if ( in_array( $post->post_type, [ 'page' ] ) ) {
        // Check if the post belongs to the 'Services' category
        if ( ! has_category( 7, $post ) ) {
            // Exclude the post from being indexed
            return false;
        }
    } else {
		return false;
	}
    
    // Allow indexing for all other cases
    return $should_index;
}

add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'algolia_exclude_extra', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_post', 'algolia_exclude_extra', 10, 2 );

I disabled the snippet, but it is still same.

So, yes, you are making use of algolia_excluded_post_types filter, but one thing I think we need to do with better clarifying is that filter is specifically for the autocomplete page and those settings.

If you check out https://github.com/WebDevStudios/wp-search-with-algolia/wiki/Filter-Hooks there’s a section for the Search page settings/Instantsearch, for which I’ve pasted the intended filter example below.

<?php
function my_exclude_searchable_custom_post_type( array $post_types ) {
    if ( array_key_exists( 'custom_post_type', $post_types ) ) {
        unset( $post_types['custom_post_type'] );
    }

    return $post_types;
}
add_filter( 'algolia_searchable_post_types', 'my_exclude_searchable_custom_post_type' );

As per one of the notes there:

With this hook, we’ve already fetched all the post types that have exclude_from_search set to false, so we need to remove instead of add.

You’ll want to update the custom_post_type part to match which you want to exclude, and repeat as necessary. Alternatively if you know exactly which post type you want, you could have the filter return something like this, for example just have it index the page post type.

return [ 'page' => 'page' ];

Regarding the indexing/not indexing part your exclusion function may be best done as such

function algolia_exclude_extra( $should_index, $post ) {
    // Check if the post type is 'page'
    if ( in_array( $post->post_type, [ 'page' ] ) ) {
        // Check if the post belongs to the 'Services' category
        if ( ! has_category( 7, $post ) ) {
            // Exclude the post from being indexed
            return false;
        }
    }
    
    // Allow indexing for all other cases
    return $should_index;
}
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'algolia_exclude_extra', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_post', 'algolia_exclude_extra', 10, 2 );

From your original version, it looks like the return $should_index line was never getting reached, because your else clause also returned false.

• This reply was modified 4 days, 2 hours ago by Michael Beckwith.

Thank you for the snippet suggestions. I used them.

I have one last problem. Yes, I am using a “Use Algolia with the native WordPress search template” option. The issue is I always have 1 search result per page. So if I have 30 results, it will give 30 pages.

If I switch back to standard WP search with “Do not use Algolia“, I have 10 results par page.

Do you know why this happens?

Admittedly not sure on that part, as the plugin shouldn’t be doing anything regarding changing pagination settings.

Yes, I tried to push the number of result in different ways, but it is till only one per page.

So far I just use the standard search page, and exclude the posts and non relevant pages with code. It works for us.

Thank you for your help!

Some extra context is that with the “Use with native search template” setting, we perform an API request to Algolia and use the resulting IDs from that, as part of a pre_get_posts filtering to tell WP to fetch just those specific posts.