XF 2.2 How to hide a forum from all search results

[Tradidi]

I would like a certain forum to be excluded from all search result. I don't want to this to be an option that the user can turn on/off, I don't want to present the user with a selection of forums to include/exclude, I just want to force this forum to be always excluded from all search results.

Any suggestions?

 

[beerForo]

It's a node option

You have this:
Include threads from this forum when users click "New posts"

And also this which is what you are looking for:
Allow search engine indexing
Index all threads
Do not index any threads
Index threads based on criteria

 

[Tradidi]

It's a node option

You have this:
Include threads from this forum when users click "New posts"

And also this which is what you are looking for:
Allow search engine indexing
Index all threads
Do not index any threads
Index threads based on criteria

I believe this applies only to external search engines, not to the internal search function.

 

[beerForo]

I think you are right.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I would just make them private.

 

[Tradidi]

I would just make them private.

Good suggestion but unfortunately it doesn't work. I still want guests to be able to view the discussions in this forum and members to post in them.

By making the forum private it is indeed excluded from search results, but by explicitly giving Guest and Registered users the permissions they need the discussions in this forum show up again in the search results.

 

[Paul B]

There is nothing built in to prevent a specific node from being indexed/searched.

 

[021]

Maybe this will help you

[BS] Exclude forums from search

.features: Excluding forums from search After changing this option, you will need to rebuild the search index

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