[Plugin: Relevanssi – A Better Search] Solved feature: easier selection of what to (not) search

In Relevanssi, you have to put not searcheable posts/pages as comma separated list to the relevanssi settings page. As i see, this is not good for few people here, for me neither as i do not want to give client access to relevanssi setings, but i want to allow him excluding pages from search.

So i have added him meta box with “Exclude from search” checkbox (this is out of scope of this thread, I recommend using “Custom fields” plugin) with search_exclude name

And then i make this simple function

add_filter('relevanssi_search_filters', 'mc_exclude_relevanssi');
function mc_exclude_relevanssi ($values_to_filter) {
   $atts = array(
   'post_type' => 'any',
   'meta_key' => 'search_exclude',
   'meta_value' => 1,
   'posts_per_page' => -1
   );
   $my_query = new WP_Query($atts);
   $myposts = $my_query->posts;

	if($myposts) {
  $values_to_filter['expost'] = explode(',',$values_to_filter['expost']);
               foreach ($myposts as $post) {
                       $values_to_filter['expost'][] = $post->ID;
                       }
  $values_to_filter['expost'] = implode(',',$values_to_filter['expost']);
               };
return $values_to_filter;
}

I think it is self explainable – i search all posts with selected custom post meta value and then i add their ID’s to filter

you can modify it to your needs.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/relevanssi/