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;
}
