Exclude a category from the search

Hi @procarmanuals

You can use something like this below. Just fill in the appropriate intended value in the has_category() line.

function wds_algolia_filter_post( $should_index, WP_Post $post ) {

	// Fill in your category name/slug/ID
    if ( has_category( 'some-category-name', $post->ID ) ) {
    	// Post has the category, so we do NOT want to index
        return false;
    }

    // Return whatever value this was, probably boolean true.
    return $should_index;
}
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'wds_algolia_filter_post', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_post', 'wds_algolia_filter_post', 10, 2 );

I have included a filter for this for Instantsearch/searchable posts indexes as well, just in case. If you don’t need that, you can remove this line:

add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'wds_algolia_filter_post', 10, 2 );

Hope that helps

It worked. Thank you!

Won’t hurt to do a bulk reindex, in case you haven’t to clear out the index for all posts that have that category.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I did.