Title: Block posts excluded from search?
Last modified: October 28, 2021

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# Block posts excluded from search?

 *  [David Mondok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidmondok/)
 * (@davidmondok)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-posts-excluded-from-search/)
 * Hi,
 * it seems that blocked posts are excluded from search. Is it possible to override
   this behavior?
 * cheers

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 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-posts-excluded-from-search/#post-15026059)
 * If the search question is related to in-site search, anything that is marked 
   as “hidden” is going to be excluded for sure. Anything marked as hidden does 
   not exist in a logged out state. Anything marked as blocked would potentially
   be able to be included in in-site searches, but it depends on what process you’re
   using for that.
 * If you’re asking about search in general (i.e. Google), then keep in mind that
   a bot sees your site essentially the same as any other non-logged in user. So
   what a non-logged in user can see, a bot can see, and anything a non-logged in
   user cannot see, neither can a bot.
 *  Thread Starter [David Mondok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidmondok/)
 * (@davidmondok)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-posts-excluded-from-search/#post-15029212)
 * Hi,
 * sorry about being so vague.
 * I’m talking about in-site search via Relevanssi.
 * Any post that is blocked with WP-Members doesn’t show up in the in-site search
   results, except for users that have the required permissions. We tried hooking
   into the filter wpmem_post__not_in and return an empty array if is_search() =
   == true, but that didn’t work. Hope you have a solution and thanks in advance
   for your help.

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 * Last reply from: [David Mondok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidmondok/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-posts-excluded-from-search/#post-15029212)
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