Possible to Exclude Pages from WP Search?

  • Resolved Daniel Delos

    (@alteritydan)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I want to exclude specific pages OR all pages from wordpress on-site search. Basically I want them only accessible through having their exact URL. Alternatively, I want WP search to ONLY show pages.

    Seems like it should be very simple. But over the last few hours I have tried every plugin claiming to do any of these things (they don’t work with the latest wordpress version without exception). I have tested numerous methods that worked even up to a month ago. They don’t now.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    try adding this to your theme’s functions.php:

    function my_search_filter($wp_query) {
   if ($wp_query->is_search) {
      $wp_query->set('post__not_in', array( -101 ) );
   }
   return $wp_query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','my_search_filter');

    where -101 is the post or page ID. change it your page id.

    Thread Starter Daniel Delos

    (@alteritydan)

    Thanks for the suggestion, I hope it will help anyone else searching. I came up with a different solution. I’m just using a subdomain for the form pages that I needed removed from the search.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad you got it sorted ??

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