Exclude pages and posts by id from ajax search results

It seems that is needed to manipulate “function avia_ajax_search()” inside functions-enfold.php on line 131 –>

// $defaults = array('numberposts' => 5, 'post_type' => 'any', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_password' => '', 'suppress_filters' => false);
$defaults = array('numberposts' => 5, 'post_type' => array( 'post', 'portfolio', 'document' ), 'post__not_in' => array( {post-ids comma separated} ), 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_password' => '', 'suppress_filters' => false);

This works, but is there a better way, perhaps with a filter ?

That’s it.. thanks Günter!

If someone else need it, this is the complete code to add it to your childtheme’s functions.php to change search results for normal search index and ajax search results (navbar):

// Use search just for certain post-types and exclude posts by id
if ( ! function_exists( 'bb_filter_search_results' ) )
{
	add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'bb_filter_search_results' );
	function bb_filter_search_results( $query )
	{
		if ( ! $query->is_admin && $query->is_search )
		{
			$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'portfolio', 'document', 'your_custom_post_type' ) );
			$query->set( 'post__not_in', array(1,2,3,4,5) );
		}
		return $query;
	}
}

if ( ! function_exists( 'bb_filter_ajax_search_results' ) )
{
	add_filter('avf_ajax_search_query', 'bb_filter_ajax_search_results', 10, 1);
	function bb_filter_ajax_search_results( $search_parameters )
	{
		$defaults = array('numberposts' => 5, 'post_type' => array( 'post', 'portfolio', 'document', 'your_custom_post_type' ), 'post__not_in' => array(1,2,3,4,5), 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_password' => '', 'suppress_filters' => false);
		$_REQUEST['s'] = apply_filters( 'get_search_query', $_REQUEST['s']);
		$search_parameters = array_merge( $defaults, $_REQUEST );
		return $search_parameters;
	}
}

For both functions you have to change the values to your needs inside the arrays for “post_type” and “post_not_in”.

post_type –> include the post-types you wanna include to your search results
post_not_in –> exclude the posts by id you don’t want in your search results

Please note, that pages are not included. For this you must add – ‘page’ – to post_type.

If you use bbPress and ajax search form form navbar for forum-search, you have to change this:

if ( ! $query->is_admin && $query->is_search )

with this:

if ( ! strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 'forums') && ! strpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 'bbp_search') && ! $query->is_admin && $query->is_search )

If you use another slug than “forums”, than you have to change it to your slug.

Thank you and best regards
Bruno

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by IndikatorDesign. Reason: Config the search for forums also