How to Exclude Pages from Wordpress Search Results without plugin

How to Exclude Pages from WordPress Search Results without plugin

Today I am going to show How to Exclude Pages from WordPress Search Results without plugin recently I create a Thankyou page for My contact form after that I click My WordPress search box without typing any text.it displaying the search page It shown My Thankyou pages, Hidden pages, and test pages I feel it’s not safe so I started a research for Exclude Pages from WordPress Search Results.

Here is the Solution for this Filter all Pages from WordPress Search Results without plugins.

Add this Below PHP Snippet on your Themes functions.php file


function filterpagesinsearch($query) {
if ($query-&gt;is_search) {
$query-&gt;set('post_type', 'post');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'filterpagesinsearch');

How it Works

post_type will control the search query the above code calls the post on WordPress search page result. it will Exclude the Pages in search results.