Search Exclude categories?

  • Resolved webmaestro

    (@webmaestro)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    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.

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  • Plugin Contributor pronskiy

    (@pronskiy)

    Thank for sharing this idea and your thoughts with me!
    It absolutely makes sense, but as you fairly noticed it has some ramifications. I will think about this and get back to you .

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