search box

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Post count: 31
master2501
#57066
Jun 30, 2015 at 4:24 pm

Hi guys!

Is it possible to make the search box only search for articles and not pages? Or is it possible to disable the search box so I can use a plugin that allows me to control the results of the search, showing only articles.

Thanks!

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Alin [tagDiv]
#57091
Jun 30, 2015 at 5:48 pm

Hi,

Please try this solution to exclude pages from search results – http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-exclude-pages-from-wordpress-search-results/
Paste the code in functions.php file – http://screencast.com/t/fhQDuIvjJ

function SearchFilter($query) {
	if ($query->is_search) {
	$query->set('post_type', 'post');
	}
	return $query;
	}
	add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

Thanks!

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master2501
#57110
Jun 30, 2015 at 8:55 pm

Thanks Alin! Problem solved!

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sejpost
#72771
Oct 5, 2015 at 9:10 pm

This is helpful on how to filter, but what if you want to weight them differently? We have 3 types of formats, but want to weight ‘standard’ (posts) higher than ‘video’ or ‘image’ (also posts, but the format of these are either video or image).

Is there way to make the ‘standard’ posts show up before the ‘video’ or ‘image’ posts? I don’t want to exclude them, just order the results differently.

If this is NOT possible, how do I exclude the ‘video’ or ‘image’ formats from the search results?

Thanks.

format examples

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simchris
#72780
Oct 5, 2015 at 10:48 pm

These might be useful on learning to setup custom queries for search:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-limit-search-results-for-specific-post-types-in-wordpress/

http://biostall.com/filter-wordpress-search-results-by-one-or-more-post-types

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_search_form

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sejpost
#72798
Oct 6, 2015 at 1:07 am

Thanks Chris.

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