Excluding searches from both public and private areas of a website.

[matt_knowles29]

Hi,

I am hoping you can help unwind the mind of our developer.

How do we split the search between two different parts of a site?

We have a public area and a private area – we need the public search to exclude one category type (specific to the private part) and vice versa.

Many thanks,

Matt

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi Matt,

I recommend using the asp_query_args hook for that. Specifically, the post_tax_filter argument, that one lets you specifiy taxonomy related search filters.

Also, if you need to check the current page ID, where the live search was initiated from (maybe to check if that part is private?), use the $args['_page_id'] argument for that.

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