Title: search alternatives
Last modified: August 23, 2019

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# search alternatives

 *  [ralnic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralnic/)
 * (@ralnic)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-alternatives/)
 * I have a question about possible other search options, or plugins in wp. I have
   an intranet site that we use to give users access to various documents and sales
   reports. There are literally hundreds of them. We use the Content Control plugin
   to restrict access to documents mainly by departments. You don’t want sales people
   seeing commission reports. And we use Memphis Document Library to upload and 
   store the files.
 * Content Control works great restricting access to contents on a page, including
   links and libraries. The problem is if someone uses search to hunt for a document,
   security goes out the window. The search will find matches across the entire 
   site, and the user can access any of them since they are direct links and not
   accessed from their page.
 * Does anyone know of a search plugin that would return the page the document is
   located on as apposed to a link to the document itself? Or any other ideas or
   suggestions?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Liew Cheon-Fong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/)
 * (@lcf)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-alternatives/#post-11894770)
 * this snippet will exclude media files from search result pages.
 *     ```
       // Exclude images from search results - WordPress
       add_action( 'init', 'exclude_images_from_search_results' );
       function exclude_images_from_search_results() {
       	global $wp_post_types;
   
       	$wp_post_types['attachment']->exclude_from_search = true;
       }
       ```
   
 * source: [https://presscustomizr.com/snippet/exclude-images-attachments-search-results/](https://presscustomizr.com/snippet/exclude-images-attachments-search-results/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Liew Cheon-Fong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-alternatives/#post-11894770)
 * Status: not resolved

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