About this plugin
Beplus Search Visibility lets you keep individual posts, pages, or whole post types out of your site’s search results — without unpublishing them or blocking search engines. Excluded content still displays normally everywhere else: the homepage, archives, RSS feeds, and direct links.
Key Features
- Per-post exclude — a simple checkbox on the post/page edit screen, in a “Search Visibility” box.
- Quick toggle column — a “Search” column on the post list screen lets you flip a post’s visibility with one click, no need to open it.
- Bulk actions — exclude or re-include many posts at once from the list screen.
- Whole post type exclude — remove an entire post type (e.g. a “Testimonials” custom post type) from search results with one setting, no per-post work needed.
- Choose which post types get the feature — enable the per-post checkbox and column only where you need them.
- wp-admin search is never affected — editors can always find excluded content to manage it; only the public front-end search is filtered.
- Per-post SEO noindex — an independent “Exclude from SEO (noindex)” checkbox to keep a post out of search engines entirely, separate from the site-search checkbox above.
- Whole post type noindex — noindex an entire post type with one setting, no per-post work needed.
- SEO column on the post list — a one-click Indexed / Noindex toggle and bulk actions, just like the Search column.
- Noindexed content is removed from the WordPress XML sitemap — individual posts and whole post types — so Google Search Console doesn’t flag “Submitted URL marked noindex”.
- Noindexing a whole post type also noindexes its archive page.
- Noindex plays well with other SEO plugins — added through WordPress core’s own wp_robots filter (5.7+), which merges every plugin’s robots directives into a single tag, instead of printing a competing <meta name="robots"> of its own.
How It Works
- Enable the feature for one or more post types in Settings > Search Visibility.
- On any enabled post type, check “Exclude this from search results” and/or “Exclude from SEO (noindex)” in the Search Visibility box — the two are independent — or use the Search column’s toggle / the bulk action on the list screen for site-search exclusion.
- The plugin hooks into pre_get_posts to remove excluded posts (and, optionally, entire excluded post types) from the public search query, and into wp_robots to add noindex for posts or post types marked for it.
Known Limitations
- The REST API search endpoint ( /wp-json/wp/v2/search ) is not filtered in this version — only the front-end s= search query is affected.
- wp-admin’s own post list search is intentionally left unfiltered, so editors can always find excluded content to manage it.
About BePlus
This plugin is developed and maintained by BePlus, a WordPress and Shopify development studio with 10+ years of experience building themes and plugins for nonprofits and eCommerce brands.
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