#290 by installs
Search Regex
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (101)
- Updated
- 25 days ago
Search Exclude
Hide any post or page from the search results.
- Active installs
- 50,000+
- #724 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 2.3M
- 2,266,730
- Downloads, 30 days
- 62.9K
- 3.9K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 218 reviews
- Last updated
- 26 days ago
- Oct 5, 2026
- Version
- 2.6.8
- 67 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 5, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6 or newer |
| First published | December 6, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | 3 of 3 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 218 reviews
| 5 stars | 203 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 5 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 8 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
With this plugin you can exclude any page, post or whatever from the WordPress search results by checking off the corresponding checkbox on post/page edit page.
Supports quick and bulk edit.
On the plugin settings page you can also see the list of all the items that are hidden from search.
Presentation
QuadLayers | Community
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Does this plugin affect SEO?
No, it does not affect crawling and indexing by search engines.
The ONLY thing it does is hiding selected post/pages from your site search page. Not altering SEO indexing.
If you want posts/pages to be hidden from search engines you may add the following snippet to your functions.php:
Are there any hooks or actions available to customize plugin behaviour?
Yes.
There is an action searchexclude_hide_from_search.
You can pass any post/page/custom_post ids as an array in the first parameter.
The second parameter specifies state of visibility in search. Pass true if you want to hide posts/pages,
or false – if you want show them in the search results.
Example:
Let’s say you want “Exclude from Search Results” checkbox to be checked off by default
Latest changelog entry
- fix: declare WooCommerce HPOS compatibility
Screenshots
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.