Comments on: Excluding certain pages or posts in built-in WordPress search results

By: Hi Karl

Hi Karl — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:08:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing this.. It helps me control related posts to my page .. Am a newbie in wordpress stuffs this bit worth a big thing for me..

By: Greten

Greten — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:42:39 +0000

Karl,

Thanks for noticing. Now, I just found a new way to exclude pages and certain posts to WordPress. I’ll write it now and will be published within this week.

By: Greten

Greten — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:00:18 +0000

Hi Karl,

I think this is an effect of how the loop works, similar to the way when the search results is supposed to display 10 results per page, but one of the results was blocked from appearing using this technique. The search results will display only 9 instead of getting the first from the next page.

I first thought that’s ok. I never foresaw this possibility. Now I need to do some revisions of the codes above. I’ll leave this post as is and write a new post about your concern.

By: Karl Macklin

Karl Macklin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:15:40 +0000

Pretty good solution, but the problem arises when your search results are ONLY pages.

What happens then is that your default “no search results found” message wont get displayed, since the loop runs (although continues out immediately) rather than failing the conditions, which is required to get the prefered “no results” message.

By: Greten

Greten — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:44:49 +0000

Hi Tracey

Can I see the exact codes that you used?

It’s possible that along the way, one of the quotes changed to curly quotes. Php codes don’t work with curly quotes.

By: Tracey Grady

Tracey Grady — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:02:15 +0000

I like the idea of this. However, when I tried to implement it, I got parse errors.