Having trouble excluding results

  • Resolved Regalities

    (@regalities)


    8 years ago

    I am trying to exclude a string of words from my website’s search results. The string of words is “not plated or filled.”

    I sell vintage gold and silver jewelry, and some of the descriptions I made included the words “not plated or filled.”

    Example:
    This is a solid 14k gold diamond ring. It is not plated or filled.
    – I write the descriptions this way to reassure customers that the solid gold items are not, in any way, plated or filled. But because I include the words “not plated or filled” in the description of the solid gold jewelry, the solid gold jewelry items are returned in the search results when I search for plated and filled jewelry!

    I tried to put the phrase “not plated or filled” into my stop words index, but this did not work. I’m hoping there is a more elegant solution to my problem other than having to edit each of my products manually.

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  • Plugin Author Mikko Saari

    (@msaari)

    You can use the [noindex] shortcode:

    This is a solid 14k gold diamond ring. [noindex]It is not plated or filled[/noindex].

    Stop words only work on single term level. You would need to add “plated” and “filled” as stop words, and then you couldn’t ever use them as search terms.

    Thread Starter Regalities

    (@regalities)

    I thought so, I’ll just have to restructure some of the item descriptions then. Thank you for the reply!

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