Search is recognizing pages as posts

I noticed that I am also getting items from the media library in the results too

Bit of an old post, but I think that there are enough people with the same problem, so I’ll just post the solution.

You must know that this behaviour is on purpose. But the solution is quite simple. Put the following code into a file named dontsearchpages.php, upload it to your plugins directory and activate it on the Plugins page of your blog.

<?php

/*
Plugin Name: Don't search pages
Plugin URI: https://lxg.de
Description: Disable searching of pages.
Version: 0.1
Author: Alex Günsche
Author URI: https://lxg.de
*/

function lxg_dontsearchpages($query)
{
	if (is_search())
		$query = str_replace
			("AND wp_posts.post_type != 'revision'",
			"AND wp_posts.post_type != 'revision' AND wp_posts.post_type != 'page'",
			$query);

	return $query;
}

add_filter('posts_where', 'lxg_dontsearchpages');

?>

Tested with WP 2.9.1 – may not work with earlier or later versions, as this is quite a dirty hack.

Inspired by an early WordPress plugin called Search Pages – which did the opposite of this one, back when WordPress didn’t search posts. ??

Just declare the post_type in the query_posts line of your theme’s search.php as you would with any other query vars in other template files..

'post_type=post'
or
'post_type' => 'post'

Depending on whether you load the parameters as a string or array..

Example:

// Code below - first line of code always loses indentation on forum, hence this line first.

	// Our/your args
	$args = array( 'post_type' =>'post' );
	// Merge with existing query if one exists
	$args = ( $wp_query && !empty( $wp_query->query ) ) ? array_merge( $wp_query->query , $args ) : $args;
	// Do the query
	query_posts( $args );