Limit the pet search to Published pet posts?

Hello,

If you say the default search form you can try adding the code in your functions.php:

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'dkc_remove_adopted' );

function dkc_remove_adopted( $query ) {

	$status = get_term_by('slug', 'adopted', 'pet-status'); //where adopted is the status

	echo $status->term_id ;

	if ( $query->is_search && !is_admin() )
		$query->set( 'pet-status',$status->term_id );
	return $query;
}

Please remove the line echo $status->term_id ; it was a test hahah

Thank you!