How to stop search from indexing permalinks?

  • 1db

    (@1db)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    An example: on a blog I’m working on, a check of the term “lumberjack” turns up this search result:

    Hults Bruk Sponsors the Underhand Block Chop competition at the 57th Annual Lumberjack World Championships Every year since 1960, small-town Hayward, Wisconsin hosts the Lumberjack World Championships. Also known as the Olympics of the Forest, thousands of spectators watch more than 100 contestants from around the world compete in 21 events ranging from logrolling, chopping, …
    lumberjack-world-championships/”> Read the full post…

    The search terms are highlighted, as they should be, and everything seems to be fine…except that the search is picking up “lumberjack” in the URL of the permalink, but isn’t printing out the entire link. Click the “read more” and you get a 404 error.

    Is there a way to tell the WordPress search either not to find search terms in permalinks, or to make sure it prints out the entire permalink structure so the link is usable?

    I should add: I’m not using any plugin, just the native WordPress search function.

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