Limit Search Results to Custom Post, Category & Specific Post Type (WP)

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If you want to exclude your custom post type’s posts from search results so the users can only get your pages, posts or category data?

Then you land at the right place

Here:

We have posted the simple snippets that will help you to limit search results to specific post types or category.

Let’s get started.

Limit Search Results in WordPress

To make it easy we have created 3 section for a limit search result.

Let’s have a look at that section.

In this guide, we are going to display a result of Posts and pages only.

So what we need to do is just copy the below code and paste it into your functions.php file.

After that:

Save the file and view result in the browser.

To only search the specific custom post type’s post, we need to use the below codes and do steps.

So just copy the below-embedded code and paste it into your searchform.php file.

After that:

Change the value of line no: 8 value="t-shirts" to your custom post name.

Let’s move to the specific category.

To only search the specific category’s post, we will use below code.

So just copy the below-embedded code and paste it into your searchform.php file.

After that:

Change the value=”8″ to your Category’s ID.

That’s it.

Hope it helped you with your website project.

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