While working on the new theme for the site, I quickly realized that I didn’t want to show pages in any of the searches on the site. I only wanted posts.
It was easy enough to find articles that illustrated ways to exclude certain categories or posts by ID, so I decided to apply those methods to pages as well. Simply paste the following into your theme’s functions.php file.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | function gdmExcludePagesInSearch($query) { if ($query->is_search) { $query->query_vars['post__not_in'] = get_all_page_ids(); } return $query; } add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'gdmExcludePagesInSearch'); |
This will remove all pages from the loop, and only on the search page.
Something unclear, or have something to add? Please leave a comment.