Exclude a few pages in search results?

No idea how that’s supposed to work. Try editing search.php and immediately after <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>, add:

<?php if( is_page(array(42,23,56) ) continue;?>

where the numbers are the ids of the pages you want to exclude.

Esmi, you are always there to answer questions! Anyway, I just tried that exactly as you said and then tried a search that normally brought the page up in the results and got this error?

Parse error: syntax error,………../public_html/wp-content/themes/Final Theme/Final1/search.php on line 49

Whoops! My bad – I missed a closing ).
Try <?php if( is_page(array(42,23,56) ) ) continue;?>

No problem, just did that on the searhc.php with the code below and the page with id #780 still shows up on the search. Does this look right?

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?><?php if( is_page(array(780))) continue;?>

<div class=”art-Post”>

Is 780 a page or a post?

It’s a page, I don’t have any posts right now. When I go and view all my pages this is what I see after the address when I hover over it so I’m assuming that’s the correct page ID #:

https://……wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=780

That sounds right. If you just want to exclude a single page, you can try simplifying that code down to <?php if( is_page('780') ) continue;?>

I’d like to exclude more then one page, but the code you recommended and that I tried above didn’t work. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

I was having the same issue and came up with this code. I looked around the web and found a few solution that where close but did not work in wordpress 2.9. This seems to be working great.

Inside the search.php file change:

<php? while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

to

<php? while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if($post->ID == ‘PageYouWantSkipped’) continue; ?>

If you want to skip multiple this should work:

<php? while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if($post->ID == ‘00′ || $post->ID == ‘01′|| $post->ID == ‘02′) continue; ?>

What if I wanted to exclude a certain page from the search results, but also all of the future children without modding the search.php every time I add a childpage?

I drove myself nuts trying to exclude individual pages from the search.php, while still keeping the original query and finally came up with this solution:

placed in functions.php

function filter_where($where = '') {
	if ( is_search() ) {
		$exclude = array(2480,2209,2454,2204,2488,2482,2463,2465,2458,2467,2461,2486,2211,2484,2200,2196,2198,2229,2219,2469,2490,2492,2218,2471,2473,2478,2496,2494,2476,2456);	

		for($x=0;$x<count($exclude);$x++){
		  $where .= " AND ID != ".$exclude[$x];
		}
	}
	return $where;
}
add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

Where exclude array are the post ID’s.

This will append to the original query_string and will still show the correct number of results, instead of being inside of the loop and excluding these pages, because when this happens, if I exclude say 8 of the 10 that will display I only see two results, and I need a constant 10. Hope this helps someone