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Okay, I’ve figured it out. You add the following before The Loop:

<?php $posts = query_posts($query_string . '&post_type=post'); ?>

This will restrict the “posts” returned to only those that are actually posts. (If you want to only show pages, set post_type=page.)

If you want posts and pages returned together, but themed differently, you can just check the individual $post->post_type within The Loop.

I can’t get the plugin to disable searching of pages.

SearchEverything uses the ‘posts_where’ filter to add searching of pages. I might be able to use this filter to first work out what SQL is being generated by WordPress (I certainly have no hope of working it out by looking at the 600 line monster /wp-includes/query.php get_posts() function). Then I might be able to use the filter to remove the offending part of the SQL.

Unfortunately I don’t have time to muck around with this now, so I’m still hoping that someone can come forward with a config- or theme-based solution. Maybe someone who is using WordPress as a CMS, the target user of this new feature?

I have raised a ticket for this in trac:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3451

I can confirm this isn’t just a problem with my plugins. Here is a wordpress.com page:

http://matt.wordpress.com/about/

And here is it not working:

http://matt.wordpress.com/About/