by quadlayers 4.8 (217 reviews)

Search Exclude

Name: Search Exclude
Rating: 4.8 (217 reviews)
Author: quadlayers

Hide any post or page from the search results.

Search Exclude ranks #718 among WordPress.org plugins with 50,000+ active installations, a 4.8/5 rating from 217 reviews, and was last updated Aug 24, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.6.6 Current Version v2.6.6

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 24 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 8 hours ago Last Refreshed on

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

4 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Nov 24, 2025

Search Exclude [search-exclude] < 2.5.8

CVE-2025-10646 · Fixed in v2.5.8
May 6, 2025

Search Exclude [search-exclude] < 2.5.0

CVE-2025-2821 · Fixed in v2.5.0
Aug 22, 2022

Search Exclude [search-exclude] < 1.2.7

CVE-2022-36282 · Fixed in v1.2.7
Sep 7, 2019

Search Exclude [search-exclude] < 1.2.4

CVE-2019-15895 · Fixed in v1.2.4

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.6.6
Last Updated: Aug 24, 2026
Requires WP: 4.7+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: quadlayers

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 217
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site administrators who want to control which content appears in search results. It solves the problem of unwanted posts or pages showing up in search by letting users exclude them individually or in bulk from the post/page edit screen.

Exclude posts from search
Exclude pages from search
Checkbox on edit page
Quick edit support
Bulk edit support
Settings page list view

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'); }