Topic: Limit site search to posts and pages

nicole
April 17, 2024 at 2:47 am

Hi,
I am using the document library pro plugin by barn2. It uses “documents” that are similar to posts. When I do a search using the search icon it returns the documents on the page instead of the actual page. How can I limit the site search to show only posts and pages?
David
April 17, 2024 at 4:16 am
Hi there,

you can use the WP pre_get_posts hook to change the posttypes returned in the search results using this PHP Snippet:
```
function include_cpt_search( $query ) {
    if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search ) {
	$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'page' ) );
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'include_cpt_search' );
```
This line: $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'page' ) ); we set the post_type arg in the query to just include the post and page
nicole
April 17, 2024 at 5:38 am

Worked perfectly! Thanks!
David
April 17, 2024 at 5:51 am

Glad to be of help

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Limit site search to posts and pages