Search Exclude categories?

Any chance you could add a checkbox to the Posts > Categories so that Posts with a given category are excluded from search?

There are plenty of ramifications here, and I’m not sure how to do it…

• if checked for one or more of the selected categories, on save Exclude from Search gets checked for the POST
• What happens if someone saves a POST, then goes back and un-checks it, and then saves the POST (is it checked again?)
• What happens if someone saves a CATEGORY, then makes a POST and then goes back and un-checks ‘Exclude from Search’ for the CATEGORY, and then saves the POST (is it checked again? I would think the user would have to manually uncheck each POST)
• IMO unchecking ‘Exclude from Search’ for a saved CATEGORY after POSTs are made would have no effect on POSTs already created
• etc…

My preference would be that assigning a category w EXCLUDE FROM SEARCH enabled, would ALWAYS prohibit it from display in search.

Changes to CATEGORY would only affect POSTs assigned that CATEGORY going forward.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-exclude/