Hide From Site Search
What it helps you do
Keep pages that visitors shouldn't land on from your site's search box out of its results: a landing page for one campaign, an internal resource page, an old page you're keeping for its link.
It's built into the Dirigible theme, so you don't need a search-exclude plugin. It only affects your site's own search. To keep a page out of Google, use No Index in the page's SEO panel (Dirigible SEO).
Hide one page
- Edit the page, post or event.
- In the sidebar's Summary panel, check Hide from site search.
- Save.
In the classic editor, the same checkbox is in the Publish box.
Hide or show several at once
- Quick Edit: hover a row in the list, click Quick Edit, and check or uncheck Hide from site search.
- Bulk actions: tick the rows, then pick Hide from site search or Show in site search from Bulk actions and click Apply.
Hidden items show Not in site search in the list's Status column. Hover it (or tap it on a phone) and its note says Set by you. Click Hidden above the list to see them, along with everything else kept out of search.
Pages hidden automatically
The theme already keeps its utility pages (the 404 page, form thank-you pages and WordPress's sample content) out of Google. They now stay out of your site's search too. Their Status column chip says why when you hover it, for example Thank-you page.
Things to know
- Changes show after the cache clears. Search result pages your host has already cached keep their old results until the cache refreshes; purge the site cache to see the change straight away.
- Hidden pages still load for anyone with the link, and they stay in menus, blocks and archives. Only search results leave them out.
- You can still find them in wp-admin. Searches in wp-admin and the editor's link search include hidden pages.
- Sites that used the Search Exclude plugin switched over on their own in October 2026. The theme kept every page that plugin hid, then deactivated and deleted the plugin.
- If you install Search Exclude again, it filters your search with its own list while it's active, and the pages you hid here stay hidden. You don't need it: deactivate and delete it.
- Activating Search Exclude again asks you first. Under Plugins, Dirigible says what changes while it's active and links back here; Activate anyway still activates it. See Plugins Dirigible Replaces.
