[wp-hackers] Excluding pages/posts from search

[Alex King]

This is sometimes the case, but there are also situations where you  
simply have a page you don't want searchable or to show up in the  
navigation list.

Disclaimer: the following is just an example, please try to focus on  
the larger concept rather than picking apart the example. :)

If you have a contact form on a page, you might want to redirect the  
user to a different "thank you" page after they submit the form. This  
"thank you" page only makes sense as a response to the form  
submission from the contact page, and you would want to exclude it  
from searches, navigation menus, sitemaps, etc.

What I'm proposing is a standard way for all of these features and  
functions (and plugins, like the sitemaps plugin) to know to exclude  
this page by default.

Cheers,
--Alex

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On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Dougal Campbell wrote:

> I just had a couple of thoughts on this. What you're looking for is  
> some
> place to store extra snippets of content, associated with an existing
> page or post, which is not going to be seen by the normal content
> rendering or the search function. Using actual pages or posts is
> bothersome because you then have to filter those out from the other
> convenience functions that are useful for building the site.