Exclude no-index posts/pages from WP search

Hi there!

I would like to add a function by which all pages/posts (any post type) that have a “noindex” tag (I enable or disable this only via the Yoast SEO plugin) are also automatically hidden from WP search inside the site.

I thought it should be a function like this:

function dev_exclude_noindex_from_search( $query ) {

	if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search && !is_admin() ) {		

		
		$query->set( 'meta_query', array( array( 'key' => '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', 'value' => 1, 'compare' => '!=', ) ) );
		

	}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'dev_exclude_noindex_from_search' );

But I found that this doesn’t work because the “_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex” key might not exist at all, rather than just having one of two values (“1″ or ‘2”).

I would be happy to get a hint from you for the best way to create this function.

Thank you very much!

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Best regards

• This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by dev_John.