We are using woocommerce and newsletter for our site but do not want the products to be returner through a search.
First, we understand that woocommerce and wordpress have different ways they return search results, and have tried using wpsearch plugin to exclude product post types from search results, however nothing seems to be changing when using the search function in the theme.
Is newsletter using a custom script for search? If so, how would we go about excluding post types from results?
Hi,
The theme uses the default WordPress search, so the results you get in default WordPress would be the ones provided with the theme search function.
There is a plugin you could try, it should exclude the posts, products, pages you don’t want to appear in the search results
– https://ro.wordpress.org/plugins/search-exclude/
Try to install it and check if it works properly.
Thanks
Simon,
Thanks for your input.
After playing with it a bit more I realized the posts are getting excluded from the search results on the blog and result page returned, but the search bar and icon in the menu seems to be using a custom autofill script that returns all post or page types, even excluded ones.
Is there a way to change this
I just tried that plugin as well. Removed all products from the search
– https://www.screencast.com/t/aax9Tah02B
They are not shown anymore in the search form autocomplete
– https://www.screencast.com/t/Df65xIjjf
I then made them visible again
– https://www.screencast.com/t/syZ0XgucK57B
They appeared in the search field as supposed to
– https://www.screencast.com/t/QWp8wvf335c
So the same should work for you if you want to hide woocommerce products in the search autocomplete and results page.
Nevermind. After giving the recommended plugin a shot and excluding the products specifically from settings they no longer are being returned by the live search.
Thanks!
