Available since: 1.6.10

searchwp_post_statuses

Caution: this hook can expose content you do not want to show all visitors

Ensure your search results template properly restricts search results, as usage of this filter exposes content that would otherwise not be exposed, content you may not want to publicly display.

By default, SearchWP considers only content that has a post_status of ‘publish’, but you may want to change this (e.g. you run a membership site and want to include certain private posts in searches).

Example: To include both published and private content in ALL searches, add the following to your active theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	function my_searchwp_post_statuses( $post_status, $engine ) {
	$post_status = array( 'publish', 'private' );
	return $post_status;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_post_statuses', 'my_searchwp_post_statuses', 10, 2 );

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Example: To include both published and private content in ONLY searches submitted to the my_supplemental_search supplemental search engine, add the following to your active theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	function my_searchwp_post_statuses( $post_status, $engine ) {

	$limited_post_status = array( 'publish' );
	$additional_post_status = array( 'publish', 'private' );

	if( is_null( $engine ) ) {
	// this is the indexer running, so we want to index our additional content
	$post_status = $additional_post_status;
	} else {
	// a search is taking place, but we only want to expose
	// additional content if it's the my_supplemental_search search engine
	if( 'my_supplemental_search' == $engine ) {
	$post_status = $additional_post_status;
	} else {
	// this is a search that is NOT using the my_supplemental_search search engine
	$post_status = $limited_post_status;
	}
	}

	return $post_status;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_post_statuses', 'my_searchwp_post_statuses', 10, 2 );

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Example: To include Drafts in Admin searches (but not front-end searches) add the following to your active theme’s functions.php:

	<?php

	function my_searchwp_post_statuses( $post_status, $engine ) {
	if ( is_admin() \|\| did_action( 'searchwp_indexer_pre' ) ) {
	$post_status = array( 'publish', 'draft' );
	}

	return $post_status;
	}

	add_filter( 'searchwp_post_statuses', 'my_searchwp_post_statuses', 10, 2 );

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Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`$post_status`	Array	Array of post statuses to consider
`$engine`	String	`null` when indexer is running (you should return all potential post statuses) or the name of the search engine performing a search