p.s. I tried Simply Exclude but I get this message when trying to save any settings:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
Put this within your search form field:
<form…..>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cat” value=”-your default category ID” />
</form>
Your pages are assigned your default category ID so using the minus will remove all pages from your results.
this fix didnt work for me, below is the code I used. it broke my search to display no results for any query.
<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/”>
<div id=”search”>
<input type=”text” value=”Search Here” name=”s” id=”s” class=”field” style=”width:95px; height:17px; background:#efefef ; font-weight:bold; color:#003366 ;” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”cat” value=”1″ />
<input type=”image” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/loupe.gif” style=”width:10px;height:12px;”/>
</div>
</form>
you’ve got it slightly wrong – you have to include a minus symbol (-) before the cat ID to tell it to exclude it.
here is my form (without the styling):
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<input type="hidden" name="cat" value="-1" />
<input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s">
<input class="searchbutton" type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="SEARCH">
</td></tr></table></form>
