Question about when/why one should use this plugin.

I can’t think of a useful way of using this plugin. There are many “visibility” plugins, that can assign user roles to view a certain post/page/cpt, where even search engines can’t see the content since they will never be assigned to that specific permitted role. And if a search engine cannot see the content, that content of course will not be indexed.

But we are not talking about hiding the content here, but simply excluding certain posts from the search results. Now, the only reason you want to do that is to limit who can see the posts (I’m guessing). However, by doing things the way you have approached the problem:

1. The search engines will be able to find and index the posts, and,
2. Anyone who looks at the sitemap.xml file will be able to find those posts,

I’m also guessing that since you are trying to hide the posts, those shouldn’t be available through the menus, or in the archives either, which I don’t think your plugin addresses any of these issue either.

So after all that, what is the purpose of this plugin, or more correctly, what am I missing here? I am asking, because just reading the description and explanations, this plugin will fall way short of what it is promising, for all the reasons I explained above.

Thanks.