Is there a way to exclude anything before 2016 from search results?
Yes. There are two approaches to this. If you never want to see anything old in the results, it’s best to filter in indexing with relevanssi_indexing_restriction. Add this to your site:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_indexing_restriction', 'rlv_exclude_old_posts' );
function rlv_exclude_old_posts( $restriction ) {
global $wpdb;
$restriction['mysql'] .= " AND YEAR(post.post_date) >= 2016 ";
$restriction['reason'] .= ' Post too old';
return $restriction;
}Note that the restriction explains which posts are included in the index, so that’s why the year is >= 2016 and not < 2016.
To deindex posts from the news post type that are older than one year, you can use:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_indexing_restriction', 'rlv_exclude_old_news' );
function rlv_exclude_old_news( $restriction ) {
$restriction['mysql'] .= ' AND ( ( post.post_date >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR '
. " AND post.post_type = 'news' ) OR ( post.post_type != 'news' ) ) ";
$restriction['reason'] .= ' News post too old';
return $restriction;
}If, on the other hand, you only want to apply this filter in searching, you can use the WP_Query date parameters like this:
add_filter( 'relevanssi_modify_wp_query', 'rlv_date_filter' );
/**
* Adds a date filter to the search query.
*
* @param WP_Query $query The query object.
*
* @return WP_Query The modified query object.
*/
function rlv_date_filter( $query ) {
$date_query = array(
'after' => 'January 1st, 2016',
'inclusive' => true,
);
$query->set( 'date_query', $date_query );
return $query;
}
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Hey guys,
A client of ours is thinking on getting the premium plugin for his site.
But we have a couple questions:
— Is it possible to exlude / include specific pages / posts, etc?
— for the search results page, would it be possible to show the page / post meta description?
— Is the search resutls page the core WP results? Can we tweak it as we need, for example adding filters to it?
Thanks in advance
Joao, yes to all. Relevanssi has tools for excluding and including pages, either with filters or (in Premium) with post editor controls. Search results are shown with the search results template from your theme, so you can adjust that as much as you want to.
It’s best if you install Relevanssi from the plugin repo, that’ll give you a good overview of how things work, and you may notice you don’t even need the Premium version.