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.

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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.

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