Custom Footer Page – How to prevent it appearing in search results

When you edit that page (WP admin) you can see its ID in the address bar of your browser.
Note that and use the following code in your functions.php to exclude it from the search.
Switch “0815” to you footer page id. Use comma separation to exclude multiple page ids from search.
As always it’s recommended to use a child theme for modifications to the functions.php.

/**
 * Exclude page ids from search results
 */
function cg_mod_search_filter( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_search && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'post__not_in', array( 0815 ) );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'cg_mod_search_filter' );

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by cg.

@Basilis: a html-header-meta “noindex” won’t be enough to exclude those pages from the WP internal search and ajax suggest, i am afraid.

Edit: the link from Vinay about “how to hide a wordpress page from google” wasn’t even “on topic” …

Edit: My reply isn’t meant as an “accusation” … i just feel like you are “on the wrong track” … :-)

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by cg.