How to specify which post/page/types etc appear in search results?

[mhote]

Hi, there’s certain pages that need an option to not show in search results (ie. homepage, clients, testimonials, attachment files). How can we specify or control what shows in the search results? Thks!

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
neither wordpress nor theme has this feature. You can try this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-exclude/.

Thanks
Mohammad

[alemarengo]

Hi guys!
I’m really interested in excluding Clients in search results.
See this example in order to see what I mean:
http://www.puntobianco.net/?clients=pip-studio
(there’s my face in it…)
Isn’t there a quick snippet to add to functions.php?
I mean, is there a way to include exclude_from_search => true when registering “Clients” as custom post type?
I hope so… 🙂

In this case, I’d like to explain what is my need.
As I purchased Dante, I expected that among default custom post type there was also one called “Brands”.
As a workaround, I should have used Clients as per products’ Brands, but only to include them into a carousel that I put on my ecommerce homepage. In fact, every Client has a link that brings to its Brand – which exists thanks to Woothemes Brands extension.

[alemarengo]

Sorry to bother you about this topic, but I’m quite thinking I managed it by using this snippet:

function GetCertainPostTypes($query) {
    if ($query->is_search) {
        $query->set('post_type',array('post','page','product','product_brand','product_tag','pa_marchio','product_cat'));
    }
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','GetCertainPostTypes');

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok great 🙂