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Exclude categories from WordPress search results

Excluding a category (or categories) from the WordPress search results is easy peezy, however, that doesn’t stop most of the snippets I’ve found from doing it wrong.

<?php add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'ja_search_filter' ); /** * Exclude category 7 from search results. * * @since ?.?.? * @author Jared Atchison * @link https://gist.github.com/1300302 * * @param WP_Query $query Existing query object * @return WP_Query Amended query object */ function ja_search_filter( $query ) { if ( $query->is_search && !is_admin() ) $query->set( 'cat','-7' ); return $query; }

October 20, 2011 3 Comments Short URL: http://jaredat.ch/ofvUqi

Topics: how to, snippet, WordPress

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Jo says:

July 10, 2012 at 11:23 am

This works great, thank you How about if you want to exclude multiple categories?

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John K says:

September 4, 2012 at 7:44 pm

works perfectly. thank you so much

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