Exclude Custom Post Types from Search Query Results

I might not be understanding you properly but on the off chance that I am you can just include exclude_from_search => true when you register your post_type.

That worked! I had done that earlier and it wasn’t working.. but i suspect I had a typo i was overlooking :/

CHEERS!

Cool. Glad you got it working.

sometimes we miss the obvious. I just spent half and hour trying to write a function to exclude a custom post type. Grrrrr….

Or if any one wants to just search through selected post types simply add the function to function.php

*note: ‘video-camera’, ‘software-solution’,’post’ are the post types which you want to search replace with you own.

// search filter
function fb_search_filter($query) {
if ( !$query->is_admin && $query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', array('video-camera', 'software-solution','post') ); // id of page or post
}
return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'fb_search_filter' );