How to exclude a forum or user from searches? RSS
 

For the purpose of RSS feeds, I want to exclude a forum(s) or user from showing up when people search the forums or do a New Posts, etc.

How?

Forums and Moderators - Edit Forum - Set "Index New Posts in Search Engine" to No.

I thought there was something else, because that isn't working for me. I have it set to no, and rebuilt the search index... the posts were still showing up.

Turning off that option will only suppress the forum threads from appearing when doing a "Search" function (eg: the drop-down box or Advanced Search), not when doing a New Posts command.

Try creating a new plugin with a hook location of "search_start" with the following command...... and change the ',17' to be the forum IDs you want to suppress (eg: if more than one then it'd be ',1,2,3' and so on).

KW802, that worked, wow... that was so easy, I wish I knew more about the programming behind vB.

You should make this a product where people can exclude forums via the AdminCP...

No problem, glad it worked. I have a few forums on my site where I do the same thing (exclude it from New Posts, etc.). Don't worry, the more you play with vB the more you'll get the hang of it.

I just wish it was a default option in the forum properties page to turn it off & on from searching. It'd be a nice feature.

Alright well, I'm about to make it a little more complex.

Can it be re-worked, so that instead of ignoring a whole forum(s)... it instead ignores threads IN those forums IF they don't have replies.

So like... if forums = (x,y,x) and thread replies = 0 ignore

That would be well wicked - I would appreciate an answer to this too!

Exactly what I need, thanks Kevin.

Thanks, this worked great!

One more problem, the posts still appear in the "recent threads".

Any ideas how to exclude?