Tag: functions.php

The categories where a particular post belongs are usually listed somewhere in the post page, usually under the post title. For administrative or some other reasons, you want to assign posts to a particular category but you do not want your site visitors to see this category. This is how you prevent one or more category from showing up in the post page.

The proper way of combining the codes discussed in two previous posts “Preventing certain posts from appearing in WordPress search results” and “Excluding static pages from WordPress search using functions.php”.

Use the functions.php to prevent certain posts from appearing in search results of WordPress’ built-in search function.

Prevent all WordPress static pages from appearing on search results by inserting a simple code in the functions.php. Well, the code is not really simple, but the process is.

Aside from quoting words from a person, a book or any reference material, single and double quotes are also used in various programming language as well as in codes and scripts such as HTML and Javascript. WordPress tends to change quotes to curly ones, the ones that were frequently used in quoting words. However, curly quotes in codes and scripts make them unusable. If you are writing blog posts about codes and scripts, here is how you can force WordPress to keep the straight quotes.