Exclude events from the standard wordpress search results on the frontend

[James O’Sullivan]

Hi there, I already opened up this support request a while back here https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/exclude-events-from-the-wordpress-search-results-on-the-frontend/ and I got a handy snippet to insert which actually does work on the frontend however there are some bad side effects. Basically by adding the snippet outlined when you are in the backend of the site and you search for an event in the backend here: http://recordit.co/eS4FhLUB6X or even if you search for a page in the pages area the results do not return anything here.

So basically there is a conflict with this. Any ideas on this one? is there an edit to the snippet that does not mess up the search results in the backend also?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
James

[Andras]

Hi James,

You could do a check whether you are on the back-end or not, and if yes, then skip the whole thing.

Something like this:

function exclude_from_search($query) {
// skip if on back-end
if ( is_admin() ) return $query;

// modify search
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', 'post');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','exclude_from_search');

Note, this hasn’t been tested, but that’s basically the logic of it.

Let me know if this does the trick.

Cheers,
Andras

[Dennis]

I looked for the same thing and it looks like this works almost fine.
Only thing missing is the pages. The search results page only shows the posts with this. Can you tell me how to include pages too? So that the search is active for posts and pages only.

Thanks

[Andras]

Hey @theedge,

Thanks for your question.

To include pages or any other post type you will need to do a small modification only. Change this:

$query->set( 'post_type', 'post' );

to this:

$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'page', 'album', 'movie', 'quote' ) );

That one includes other post types as well. You will only need ‘post’ and ‘page’ in the array to get the result you need.

Cheers,
Andras

[Dennis]

Thanks András:)

[Andras]

You are very welcome!

Is there anything else I can help you with before I close this down?

Andras

[Dennis]

No more questions from my side, thanks:)

[Andras]

Cool, then I am going to close this ticket, but if you need anything else related to this topic or another please create a new ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

Cheers,
Andras

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