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.
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| <?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; | |
| } |
This works great, thank you 🙂 How about if you want to exclude multiple categories?
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1,-1347’ );
works perfectly. thank you so much
Hi Jared,
Very helpful post!
Is there a way to exclude certain pages too?
Yep, you should be able to use
post__not_in().http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
Sorry Jared, I didn’t see your reply before posting below!
Perfect, thanks for your help.
Found solution. If it’s helpful to anyone else the code is:
function SearchFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set(‘post_type’, ‘post’);
}
return $query;
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’SearchFilter’);
Hello Admin… Please, where do i add this code in my blog?