Reply To: Hiding content (e.g., ) conditionally if search has been performed

Hi,

Thank you for the details!

If I understand correctly, you have the auto-populate feature enabled, which shows some results. Then when the user changes a filter or enters a new phrase a new search is initiated, but this time you want to exclude some results from this and all succeding queries. Is that correct?

If so, I think there is a very simple way to do it programmatically via the asp_query_args hook:

add_filter('asp_query_args', 'asp_exclude_on_non_autopopulate', 10, 1);
function asp_exclude_on_non_autopopulate($args) {
	if ( !$args['_is_autopopulate'] ) {
		$args['post_not_in'] = array(1, 2, 3, 4); // Exclude posts by ID
	}
	return $args;
}

This code will exclude the items by IDs from the array, if the current search quers is not the auto-populate query.