Exclude Events from Site Search Results

[Car McGinley]

I would like to adjust me front end site search functionality so it does not include calendar events. I tried using the code mentioned in this post, but that also removed all pages from search results… Only blog posts came up in search on both the front and back end.

Here’s what I’d like:

Front-end search: only pages and blog posts (no calendar events)
Back-end search: no exclusions at all

Is this possible? I would appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks!
Nick

[Brian]

Hi Nick,

I can help out here.

That snippet was designed to just use posts for search.

This is an updated version that will enable pages too.

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

Let me know how that works out.

Thanks

[Car McGinley]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the code suggestion. I pasted it into my functions.php file, but it seems to break the website. I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’ in /home/isthmus/www/holywisdom/wp-content/themes/x-child/functions.php on line 76

I don’t know PHP, so I can’t detect the syntax error. Could you please take a look and perhaps ID the bug?

Thanks!
Nick

[Brian]

It is hard to say what the issue is there is no & in the snippet so looks like you put it inbetween two functions.

Can you put it all the way at the end of the file, but before any closing php tag ( ?> ) That is about all I can suggest on this.

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