by quadlayers
4.8 (217 reviews)
Search Exclude
Hide any post or page from the search results.
Compatible with WP 7.0.1
v2.6.5
Current Version v2.6.5
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 22 May, 2026
Refreshed 10 hours ago
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Rank
#720
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Active Installs
50K+
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2.1M
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0%
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Rating
96%
Review 4.8 out of 5
4.8
(217 reviews)
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Tracked Keywords
Showing 5 of 5| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exclude post | 1 | — | Tag | 21 hours ago |
| search exclude | 1 | — | Tag | 21 hours ago |
| exclude page | 3 | — | Tag | 21 hours ago |
| search | 12 | — | Tag | 21 hours ago |
| wordpress search | 14 | — | Tag | 21 hours ago |
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- Version
- 2.6.5
- Last Updated
- May 22, 2026
- Requires WP
- 4.7+
- Tested Up To
- 7.0.1
- PHP Version
- 5.6 or higher
- Author
- quadlayers
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- Reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Search Exclude
No, it does not affect crawling and indexing by search engines. The ONLY thing it does is hiding selected post/pages from your site search page. Not altering SEO indexing. If you want posts/pages to be hidden from search engines you may add the following snippet to your functions.php: function add_meta_for_search_excluded() { global $post; if (false !== array_search($post->ID, get_option('sep_exclude', array()))) { echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />', "\n"; } } add_action('wp_head', 'add_meta_for_search_excluded'); Note: already indexed pages will remain indexed for quite a while. In order to remove them from Google index, you may use Google Search Console (or similar tool for other engines).
Yes. There is an action searchexclude_hide_from_search. You can pass any post/page/custom_post ids as an array in the first parameter. The second parameter specifies state of visibility in search. Pass true if you want to hide posts/pages, or false - if you want show them in the search results. Example: Let's say you want "Exclude from Search Results" checkbox to be checked off by default for newly created posts, but not pages. In this case you can add following code to your theme's function.php: add_filter('default_content', 'exclude_new_post_by_default', 10, 2); function exclude_new_post_by_default($content, $post) { if ('post' === $post->post_type) {
} } Also there is a filter searchexclude_filter_search. With this filter you can turn on/off search filtering dynamically. Parameters: $exclude - current search filtering state (specifies whether to filter search or not) $query - current WP_Query object By returning true or false you can turn search filtering respectively. Example: Let's say you need to disable search filtering if searching by specific post_type. In this case you could add following code to you functions.php: add_filter('searchexclude_filter_search', 'filterForProducts', 10, 2); function filterForProducts($exclude, $query) { return $exclude && 'product' !== $query->get('post_type'); }