Exclude tag from search

  • Resolved Julia_B

    (@julia_b)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Non-developer here so you may have to speak to me very slowly! 😉

    I’d like to exclude posts with a particular tag from search results.

    I found the following code in a “how to” article and tried putting it in functions.php but it doesn’t work:

    add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_search_exclude_filter' );
function my_search_exclude_filter( $query ) {
  if ( ! $query->is_admin && $query->is_search && $query->is_main_query() ) {
    $query->set( 'post__not_in', array( 'tag', '-223' ) );
  }
}

    Can anyone correct it for me please? Or is there a better of achieving this?

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Julia_B.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Julia_B.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by bcworkz. Reason: code fixed
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Take a look here
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#tag-parameters
    and see the tag__not_in parameter. The post__not_in parameter is for post IDs.

    halohtlo

    (@halohtlo)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Here’s my code thanks to the people from this forum that helped me finish it.
    Feel free to use it.

    Functions.php

    add_action('wp_ajax_data_fetch' , 'data_fetch');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_data_fetch','data_fetch');
function data_fetch()
{
$post_ids = array(2438, 379, 2729, 2571, 1830, 1832, 1819, 1824, 1826, 2415, 1828, 3155, 2752);
$the_query = new WP_Query(array( 
			'posts_per_page' => -1, 
			's' => esc_attr($_POST['keyword'] ), 
			'post_type' => 'page',
			'post__not_in' => $post_ids
			) );
	
if( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
    while( $the_query->have_posts() ): $the_query->the_post();?>

		<div class="DisplayLiveSearchItems">
        <img src="" style="width:35px;height:25px;position:relative;float:left;padding-right:1%"/><a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_permalink() ); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a>
		</div>

    <?php endwhile;
    wp_reset_postdata();  
endif;

die();
	
}

    Javascript file ( You can name it whatever you want )

    function fetch(){
jQuery.ajax({
    url: "https://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",
    type : "POST",
    data: { action: 'data_fetch', keyword: jQuery('#keyword').val() },
    success: function(data) {
		
		if ( jQuery('#keyword').val() == "" )
			{
			jQuery('#datafetch').html("");
			}
		else
			{
				jQuery('#datafetch').html( data );
			}
    }
});
};

    The page you want the search form to be used at:

    <input type="text" class="demoInputBox" name="keyword" id="keyword" placeholder="Search" onkeyup="fetch()"/>
				<div id="datafetch">Your search results will appear here</div>

    Style.css

    .demoInputBox 
		{    
			padding: 10px;
			width:40%;
			border: 0;
			border-radius: 15px;
			margin: 0px 5px 15px;
		}

.DisplayLiveSearchItems
{
	font-size:20px;
	width:25%;
	position:relative;
	border:3px double rgba(28,110,164,0.9);
	font-family:sans seriff;
}
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by halohtlo.
    Thread Starter Julia_B

    (@julia_b)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks so much @joyously – simply changing post to tag got it working! Much appreciated.

    Thank you also @halohtlo The little tweak suggested above actually fixed it but it was really nice of you to share the code and maybe someone in the future will see this and find it useful 🙂

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