Available since: 1.6

searchwp_exclude

You can exclude specific post IDs on the SearchWP settings screen, but if you’d like to exclude post IDs programmatically you can do that with this filter.

Example: If you want to exclude a single a single post, add the following to your active theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	function my_searchwp_exclude( $ids, $engine, $terms )
	{
	$ids[] = 78; // forcefully exclude post 78
	return $ids;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_exclude', 'my_searchwp_exclude', 10, 3 );

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You can also retrieve post IDs dynamically and return those programmatically.

Example: If you want to exclude posts flagged with a taxonomy term, add the following to your active theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	function my_searchwp_exclude( $ids, $engine, $terms ) {

	$entries_to_exclude = get_posts(
	array(
	'post_type' => 'any',
	'nopaging' => true,
	'fields' => 'ids',
	'tax_query' => array(
	array(
	'taxonomy' => 'category',
	'field' => 'slug',
	'terms' => array( 'category-1' ),
	),
	),
	)
	);

	$ids = array_unique( array_merge( $ids, array_map( 'absint', $entries_to_exclude ) ) );

	return $ids;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_exclude', 'my_searchwp_exclude', 10, 3 );

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Example: If you want to exclude an entire bbPress Forum, it’s Topics, and all Replies to those Topics add the following to your active theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	// exclude anything to do with Forum ID 133643 from search results in SearchWP
	function my_exclude_private_bbpress_forum_and_children( $ids, $engine, $terms ) {
	$forum_id = 133643;

	// exclude Topics from that Forum
	$topic_args = array(
	'post_type' => 'topic',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'fields' => 'ids',
	'post_parent' => $forum_id,
	'suppress_filters' => true,
	);
	$topic_ids = new WP_Query( $topic_args );
	$topic_ids = $topic_ids->posts;

	// if there are no posts we get array( 0 => '0' ) back
	if ( 1 == count( $topic_ids ) && $topic_ids[0] == 0 ) {
	$topic_ids = array();
	}

	// exclude Replies to those Topics
	$reply_args = array(
	'post_type' => 'reply',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'fields' => 'ids',
	'post_parent__in' => $topic_ids,
	'suppress_filters' => true,
	);
	$reply_ids = new WP_Query( $reply_args );
	$reply_ids = $reply_ids->posts;

	// if there are no posts we get array( 0 => '0' ) back
	if ( 1 == count( $reply_ids ) && $reply_ids[0] == 0 ) {
	$reply_ids = array();
	}

	$ids = array_merge( $ids, array( $forum_id ), $topic_ids, $reply_ids );

	return $ids;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_exclude', 'my_exclude_private_bbpress_forum_and_children', 10, 3 );

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Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`$ids`	Array	Any post IDs that are considered excluded already
`$engine`	String	The engine currently in use
`$terms`	Array	Submitted search terms