Remove Specific Product Category Products From Search

Hi,

We are using your plugin Advance Woo Search which works fine. We are having one issue and that is we want to remove specific product category products from search when a user is logged in to the website. A kind of restricted product search for logged in customers. I am using this article to hide specific products of a category. It works partially and there is an issue I have to give all combinations of search terms to prevent the product from appearing in the search which is very frustrating. Is there an easy way of doing it. Here is my code, the problem is to hide one product Freya I have to give 3 combination for search terms one is Fre, Frey and Freya. Is there a better way of doing it. We have large number of products which we are looking to hide of a product category. The best solution would to simply exclude the products of a specific taxonomy which is not based on user search terms.

function aws_custom_search_terms($terms) {
// Store the terms in a global variable
global $aws_search_terms;
$aws_search_terms = $terms;
return $terms;
}

add_filter('aws_search_terms', 'aws_custom_search_terms');

function aws_custom_search_query_array($query) {

// Use the global variable to get the terms
global $aws_search_terms;

$exclude_array = array(
    'fre' => array(1922),
    'frey' => array(1922),
    'freya' => array(1922),
);
$exclude_ids_array = array();

if ($aws_search_terms) {
    foreach ($exclude_array as $term => $ids) {
        $term_arr = explode(' ', $term);
        $exclude = false;

        if ($term_arr && count($term_arr) === count($aws_search_terms)) {
            foreach ($term_arr as $term_i) {
                if (array_search($term_i, $aws_search_terms) !== false) {
                    $exclude = true;
                } else {
                    $exclude = false;
                }
            }
        }

        if ($exclude) {
            $exclude_ids_array = array_merge($exclude_ids_array, $ids);
        }
    }
}

if (!empty($exclude_ids_array)) {
    global $wpdb;

    $taxonomies = implode(',', $exclude_ids_array);

    $query['exclude_products'] = " AND ( id NOT IN (
           SELECT $wpdb->posts.ID
           FROM $wpdb->term_relationships
           JOIN $wpdb->posts
           ON ( $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id = $wpdb->posts.post_parent OR $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id = $wpdb->posts.ID )
           WHERE $wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (
               SELECT term_taxonomy_id FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy WHERE term_id IN ({$taxonomies})
           )
        ))";
}

return $query;

}
add_filter('aws_search_query_array', 'aws_custom_search_query_array');

Does the premium version of the plugin support the option of excluding products of a specific category only for logged in customers not for all of them?. Looking forward to your response.

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