Excluding search results

How exactly are the specific posts tagged? With a regular tag?

If the posts are never to be found in search, it’s best to not index them in the first place. That’s best done with a relevanssi_indexing_restriction filter function that will block the posts from being indexed.

Relevanssi manual for filter hooks is here.

Wow,
Thanks for the fast response and thank you for the info, I also should’ve said what we are trying to accomplish

We built a page for daily news using elementor and put a search bar. We want the search bar to only display results for other news articles so we tagged them with a regular tag we also put it in its own category

So should I continue and read the manual filter hooks or is there an easier way to only include that category?

So you only want to include news posts in the results? If that’s the case, add this code to your theme functions.php and Relevanssi will only index posts in a specific category:

add_filter( 'relevanssi_indexing_restriction', 'rlv_only_index_category_x' );
function rlv_only_index_category_x( $restriction ) {
	global $wpdb;
	$restriction['mysql']  .= " AND post.ID IN (SELECT tr.object_id FROM $wpdb->term_relationships AS tr, $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS tt WHERE tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id AND tt.term_id = X ) ";
	$restriction['reason'] .= ' Not in the right category';
	return $restriction;
}

Replace the X in the query with the category ID of the news category. Now when you build the index, only news posts are included.

it worked, I spent 4 weeks on this. I can’t thank you enough!

Glad to hear it works. A review would be a fine way to say thanks.