Hidden or Catalog products showing in Search results

Hi there

I have a specific products in a Category (samples) that I need to exclude from the ajax search results. I have those Catalog Visibility set to “Catalog” only, however they still show in the ajax search results. Also setting them to “Hidden” which I prefer, does work either. They still show in results. I have also tried different bits of code and nothing seems to work, including:

/* Exclude a Category from Search Results */

    add_filter( 'pre_get_posts' , 'search_exc_cats' );
    function search_exc_cats( $query ) {

    if( $query->is_admin )
    return $query;

    if( $query->is_search ) {
    $query->set( 'category__not_in' , array( 224 ) ); // Cat ID
    }
    return $query;
    }

Can you please help?

Thanks

Please note … I have have this code on there to show 16 results instead of the default :

// Ajax Search Results

function basel_header_block_search() {
$header_search = basel_get_opt( 'header_search' );
?>
<div class="search-button basel-search-<?php echo esc_attr( $header_search ); ?>">
	<a href="#">
		<i class="fa fa-search"></i>
	</a>
	<div class="basel-search-wrapper">
		<div class="basel-search-inner">
			<span class="basel-close-search"><?php esc_html_e('close', 'basel'); ?></span>
			<?php basel_header_block_search_extended( false, true, array('thumbnail' => 1, 'price' => 1, 'count' => 16), false ); ?>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<?php
}

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.

As we can understand the problem is only in AJAX search? Samples are not shown when you hit “Enter”?

Regards

Hi.

No, that is not the problem.
The problem is that Samples ARE showing in the search results.

Example… enter “firm skin” in the search, and you will see this product:
“Sample: Firm Skin Acai Booser Serum 0.10/oz”
This product Catalog visibility is set to Hidden so it should not show in the results.

Thanks

Yes, we understand. But when you hit enter and see the search results page, is this product shown there also?

That is fine. The product page is no problem.
My client just does not want the samples to show in the search results.

Ok, we will try to reproduce the problem on our development environment and will back to you soon.

Thank you

Thank you very much. 🙂

Hello,

This bug will be fixed in our next update. For now you can change the following code in basel/inc/classes/Search.php file

		$query_args = array(
			'posts_per_page' => 3,
			'post_status'    => 'publish',
			'post_type'      => 'product',
			'no_found_rows'  => 1,
			//'order'          => $order,
			'meta_query'     => array()
		);

with this one

		$query_args = array(
			'posts_per_page' => 3,
			'post_status'    => 'publish',
			'post_type'      => 'product',
			'no_found_rows'  => 1,
			//'order'          => $order,
            'meta_query' => array(
                array(
                    'key' => '_visibility',
                    'value' => array('visible', 'search'),
                    'compare' => 'IN'
                )
            )
		);

It should fix your problem.

Kind Regards

Hi there

The code worked perfectly.
Thank you so much for your quick help 🙂

Cheers

Great, you are welcome 🙂

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