Beplus Search Visibility

Description

Beplus Search Visibility lets you keep individual posts, pages, or whole post types out of your site’s search results — without unpublishing them or blocking search engines. Excluded content still displays normally everywhere else: the homepage, archives, RSS feeds, and direct links.

Key Features

• Per-post exclude — a simple checkbox on the post/page edit screen, in a « Search Visibility » box.
• Quick toggle column — a « Search » column on the post list screen lets you flip a post’s visibility with one click, no need to open it.
• Bulk actions — exclude or re-include many posts at once from the list screen.
• Whole post type exclude — remove an entire post type (e.g. a « Testimonials » custom post type) from search results with one setting, no per-post work needed.
• Choose which post types get the feature — enable the per-post checkbox and column only where you need them.
• wp-admin search is never affected — editors can always find excluded content to manage it; only the public front-end search is filtered.

How It Works

1. Enable the feature for one or more post types in Settings > Search Visibility.
2. On any enabled post type, check « Exclude this from search results » in the Search Visibility box, or use the Search column’s toggle / the bulk action on the list screen.
3. The plugin hooks into pre_get_posts and removes excluded posts (and, optionally, entire excluded post types) from the public search query only.

Known Limitations

• The REST API search endpoint (/wp-json/wp/v2/search) is not filtered in this version — only the front-end s= search query is affected.
• wp-admin’s own post list search is intentionally left unfiltered, so editors can always find excluded content to manage it.

About BePlus

This plugin is developed and maintained by BePlus, a WordPress and Shopify development studio with 10+ years of experience building themes and plugins for nonprofits and eCommerce brands.

Learn more at beplusthemes.com.