Exclude post: types OR ID's from Ajax search

[dekkydog]

Hi there,
I have a number of plugins running alongside the dante theme. Some of these plugins have there own unique custom post types / ID’s. When using the Dante Ajax search ALL plugin custom post types are included in the dynamic dropdown results. Is there a way to exclude certain custom post types or ID’s from the dropdown? Note that I am using the Child-theme – It would be nice to slip in something to my functions.php which solved this?

Thanks in advance for your time 🙂

Cheers

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Please insert given below code at functions.php and you can modified this as you want.

function sf_ajaxsearch() {
			$search_term = trim($_POST['s']);
			$search_query_args = array(
				's' => $search_term,
				'post_type' => 'any',
				'post_status' => 'publish',
				'suppress_filters' => false,
				'numberposts' => -1
			);
			$search_query_args = http_build_query($search_query_args);
			$search_results = get_posts( $search_query_args );
			$count = count($search_results);
			$shown_results = 5;

			$search_results_ouput = "";
			
			if (!empty($search_results)) {
				
				$sorted_posts = $post_type = array();
				
				foreach ($search_results as $search_result) {
					$sorted_posts[$search_result->post_type][] = $search_result;
				    // Check we don't already have this post type in the post_type array
				    if (empty($post_type[$search_result->post_type])) {
				    	// Add the post type object to the post_type array
				        $post_type[$search_result->post_type] = get_post_type_object($search_result->post_type);
				    }			
				}
				
				$i = 0;
				foreach ($sorted_posts as $key => $type) {
					$search_results_ouput .= '<div class="search-result-pt">';
			        if(isset($post_type[$key]->labels->name)) {
			            $search_results_ouput .= "<h6>".$post_type[$key]->labels->name."</h6>";
			        } else if(isset($key)) {
			            $search_results_ouput .= "<h6>".$key."</h6>";
			        } else {
			            $search_results_ouput .= "<h6>".__("Other", "swiftframework")."</h6>";			        
			        }
		
			        foreach ($type as $post) {
			        	
			        	$img_icon = "";
			        	
			        	$post_format = get_post_format($post->ID);
			        	if ( $post_format == "" ) {
			        		$post_format = 'standard';
			        	}
			        	$post_type = get_post_type($post->ID);
			        	
			        	if ($post_type == "post") {
			        		if ($post_format == "quote" || $post_format == "status") {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-quote";
			        		} else if ($post_format == "image") {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-picture";
			        		} else if ($post_format == "chat") {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-chat";
			        		} else if ($post_format == "audio") {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-music";
			        		} else if ($post_format == "video") {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-video";
			        		} else if ($post_format == "link") {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-link";
			        		} else {
			        			$img_icon = "ss-pen";
			        		}
			        	} else if ($post_type == "product") {
			        		$img_icon = "ss-cart";
			        	} else if ($post_type == "portfolio") {
			        		$img_icon = "ss-picture";
			        	} else if ($post_type == "team") {
			        		$img_icon = "ss-user";
			        	} else if ($post_type == "galleries") {
			        		$img_icon = "ss-picture";
			        	} else {
			        		$img_icon = "ss-file";
			        	}
			        	
			        	$post_title = get_the_title($post->ID);
			        	$post_date = get_the_date();
			        	$post_permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
			        	
			        	$image = get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'thumbnail' );
			        	
			            $search_results_ouput .= '<div class="search-result">';
			        	
			        	if ($image) {
			        		$search_results_ouput .= '<div class="search-item-img"><a href="'.$post_permalink.'">'.$image.'</div>';
			        	} else {
			        		$search_results_ouput .= '<div class="search-item-img"><a href="'.$post_permalink.'" class="img-holder"><i class="'.$img_icon.'"></i></a></div>';
			        	}
			        	            				
			            $search_results_ouput .= '<div class="search-item-content">';
			            $search_results_ouput .= '<h5><a href="'.$post_permalink.'">'.$post_title.'</a></h5>';
			            if ($post_type == "product") {
			            $price = sf_get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_regular_price', true);	            
			            $sale = sf_get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_sale_price', true);
			            if ($sale != "") {
			           		$price = $sale;
			            }
			            if ($price != "") {
			            $search_results_ouput .= '<span>'.get_woocommerce_currency_symbol().$price.'</span>';
			            	}
			            } else {
			            $search_results_ouput .= '<time>'.$post_date.'</time>';
			            }
			            $search_results_ouput .= '</div>';
			            
			            $search_results_ouput .= '</div>';
			        	
			        	$i++;
			        	if ($i == $shown_results) break;
			        }
			       
			       $search_results_ouput .= '</div>';
			        if ($i == $shown_results) break;
			    }
			    
			    if ($count > 1) {
			    	$search_results_ouput .= '<a href="'.get_search_link($search_term).'" class="all-results">'.sprintf(__("View all %d results", "swiftframework"), $count).'</a>';	
			    }
				
			} else {
				
				$search_results_ouput .= '<div class="no-search-results">';
				$search_results_ouput .= '<h6>'.__("No results", "swiftframework").'</h6>';
				$search_results_ouput .= '<p>'.__("No search results could be found, please try another query.", "swiftframework").'</p>';
				$search_results_ouput .= '</div>';
				
			}
			
			echo $search_results_ouput;
			die();
		}

Hope that should help to you.

Thanks