Exclude Pages or Posts of Certain Categories from WordPress Search Result

29th Dec 2010 | Posted by reza | 5 Comments

Often, WordPress users need only their posts that appear in the search results. But, by default, WordPress displays posts and pages when site visitor use search feature. If You want to hide the page from the search result, here’s a simple code to do the task.

Open your function.php and put this code there

function searchExcludePages($query) {
	if ($query->is_search) {
		$query->set('post_type', 'post');
	}

	return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','searchExcludePages');

You can also exclude post from certain categories this colde

function searchExcludePages($query) {
	if ($query->is_search) {
		$query->set('post_type', 'post');
		$query->set('cat','-2,-5');
	}

	return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','searchExcludePages');

By the code, the pages, and posts from category with ID 2 and 5, wont appear in your WordPress search result.

Source : Excluding Pages from WordPress Search