Comments on: WordPress Tips: Excluding Pages/Posts From Searches

By: Chicago Limousine Service

Chicago Limousine Service — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:15:17 +0000

I have already seen like this before but this is much better. I will also use this in my blog thanks a lot.

By: Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:14:50 +0000

Well I haven’t had a chance to try it, but something like this would probably work:

query_posts(
	array_merge(
		array('category__not_in' => array(1,2,3,4)),
		$wp_query->query
	)
)

Again I haven’t had the chance to try it, but I can’t see any reason why it should work to exclude the categories you specify.

This will update the query & re-save it into the WP object cache, so you won’t be removing them after the fact. Also because you are merging the original query you shouldn’t have any paginate problems.

Hope that helps, let me know how it goes.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:36:24 +0000

Thanks for clarifying how this gets done. But — and sorry to be the guy who just asks without contributing something — have you had any luck with excluding whole *post categories* from WP search? I’ve had pretty mixed results, and admittedly, the one time I got it to work was by accident. Biggest problem seems to be pagination, because I want to limit those unwanted categories out by default…not pluck-remove them from the big (already-been-paginated) catch. Any ideas?

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