How To Exclude Individual Posts From WordPress Search Results

Exclude Or Hide Posts From WordPress Search Results

There are many reasons to exclude or remove certain WordPress posts from being searched on your WordPress blog or website. You may have off topic posts which don’t relate to your dedicated blog topic or you may have written embarrassing rants you do not want to include in your search results query.

Luckily, using the exclude-posts function will override the standard WordPress search function and will allow you to exclude certain posts from being displayed in your WordPress website’s search results.

 Copy and paste the code below into your functions.php file.
Change “Post ID here” to your individual post IDs, separated by commas (ie: 301, 2234, 281).
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function exclude_posts($query) {

    if ($query->is_search) {

       $query->set('cat','Post ID here');

  }

  return $query;

}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','exclude_posts');

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[Note]Locating WordPress Page And Post IDs[/Note]