6.2: Search results loaded with clutter and I can’t find a way to remove it

  • Hello. Is this a new wrinkle with 6.2, because I’ve never seen it happen on my other blogs, certainly not to this degree. I am desperate to REMOVE attachments from search results; I tried a supposed way to do that, so instead, search results produced the media from the attachments! I’ve got tons of search results that look like duplicate post titles, up to 8-10 times the same thing, but there’s only ONE post, or ONE page, and all the other junk is individual attachments or images from those attachments.

    What the heck is going on? How can I get RID of all the junk-search results? I just want to show POSTS AND PAGES in search results. There doesn’t seem to be a plugin to suppress images from search results.

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    I am desperate to REMOVE attachments from search results;

    I’ve never seen media show up in search. Are these regular media files uploaded though the default client, or something else?

    Thread Starter kmp2

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    Hello. They are images I uploaded the normal way into the media folder directly in the wordpress dashboard, or by adding an image into a post while editing in code mode.
    The images all have attachment pages.
    Some images are necessarily duplicates, because I use them with captions in some posts or galleries and without captions in others. But they all have titles. And the titles appear on the attachment pages, and their titles are often similar to post titles. Search is picking them all up along with the posts, which is confusing as you can’t easily tell an image from a post in a search result, and you have to sort through half a dozen similar results to find the post. Really a waste of time.
    I found some kind of plugin, I can’t even remember what it is at this point, to suppress the attachment pages. But that didn’t work, the search now just picks up the images all by themselves and gives them titles in the search results!
    I wish there was a way to globally remove images from search. Or even better, have a separate search just for images.

    Thanks for your time.

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