GD "Templates" Returned in WP search results

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January 16, 2020 at 8:00 pm #526049

identity
Lifetime Member

Post count: 445

While I love how many of the GD layout templates are now built within standard WP Pages, there is perhaps one drawback, which is that these “pages” may also be returned within standard WP search results…and while I haven’t tested yet, imagine they may also show up in other ways, such as site links via sitemaps, etc.

Do a search on “GD” or other relevant terms and you’ll see search results including:
GD Archive Item
GD Search
GD Details
GD Archive
Location
Compare Listings

Is there anyway to make sure that these are excluded from search, sitemaps, direct navigation, etc.?

Cheers

January 16, 2020 at 8:56 pm #526062

Alex Rollin
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Post count: 27815

We have a snippet to exclude listing CPTs from WP Search at the bottom of the page here, but I don’t think it covers the GD templates.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/faq/common-examples/

Let me ask the developers to comment on that

January 20, 2020 at 1:07 pm #526545
Naveen Giri
Moderator

Post count: 1559
Hi identity,

You can exclude specific pages on site map with following action of Yoast.
```
add_filter( 'wpseo_exclude_from_sitemap_by_post_ids', function () {
  return array( 11, 12); // make sure to replace these numbers with page ids.
} );
```
You can use following snippet to exclude specific GD pages on WordPress search.
```
function wpb_search_filter( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_search && !is_admin() )
        $exclude_ids  = array( 11, 12); // make sure to replace these numbers with page ids.
        $query->set( 'post__not_in', $exclude_ids );
    return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpb_search_filter' );
```
This seems meaningful to me, I will create a improvement request for it. We will make sure to make it more dynamic in future versions.

Thanks
January 21, 2020 at 12:06 am #526629

identity
Lifetime Member

Post count: 445

Excellent! Thanks, I’ll check this out.

Sadly, this seems like another “basic” thing that should just be built into WP to begin with.

Cheers
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