Reply To: Exclude Draft posts, password protected and private post and pages

Hi,

1. By default only published posts are returned, these are excluded automatically. This can be changed here: https://i.imgur.com/WgucRtu.png
2. You can change the destination URL to either the file URI, the attachment page or the parent page, here: https://i.imgur.com/6CtiXcf.png
3. No, unfortunately that is not possible
4. I’m afraid this is not possible either
5. It highly depends on the exact implementation. If you can provide a link to the URL where the search is visible, I might be able to suggest either a configuration or custom CSS code