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Show Only Posts in WordPress Search Results

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Show Only Posts in WordPress Search Results
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Show Only Posts in WordPress Search Results Tutorial/Guide

By default, WordPress search includes posts, pages, and sometimes custom post types. If you'd like to restrict searches to only blog posts, follow these steps. Step 1: Open your active theme’s functions.php file. Step 2: Insert this code:

function custom_search_only_posts($query) {
    if ($query->is_search() && !is_admin()) {
        $query->set('post_type', 'post');
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'custom_search_only_posts');

Step 3: Save the file. Now, only posts will be shown in WordPress search results — pages and other types will be excluded automatically. This approach improves search relevance for blog-based websites by limiting the results to what users most likely expect: your blog content.  

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