Hi,
I need to hide the custom posts from WP default search and when I activate the "exclude_from_search" this works ok. But we need to use archives of custom taxonomies and they don't work if "exclude_from_search" is activated. They do work fine if it's not activated.
Is this normal and can I make the archives work for this post type even though the posts are not included in search results?
Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.
Basically - you can use the standard WordPress hook "pre_get_posts" in order to make sure what post types you want to include.
For instance:
function func_default_search_filter( $query ) {
// If the query is_admin() bail
if ( $query->is_admin() ) :
return $query;
endif;
// If the query is_search and is_main_query
if ( $query->is_search() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
// set the post type to only post types you want returned.
$include_post_types = array('page', 'post');
$query->set( 'post_type',$include_post_types );
}
// Return the query.
return $query;
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'func_default_search_filter' );
Where:
- You can adjust the array values for $include_post_types variable for post types you want to include for the searcch.
