Pre_get_posts loop

• Martijnvh

• May 20, 2020 at 9:32 pm

Hi there,

I want to exclude my search results by post ids.
Therefor I created an relation field as option.

But the get_field is probably also using pre_get_posts and gets into an infinite loop.
This is my code.

function wpb_search_filter( $query ) {

   if(!is_admin() && is_search()){

    $excluded_post_ids = get_field('exclude_from_search','option');

    if(!empty($excluded_post_ids)){

      if ( $query->is_search && !is_admin() ){
        $query->set( 'post__not_in', $excluded_post_ids );
      }
    }
  }
  
  return $query;

}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpb_search_filter' );

How do I set the proper IF statement?

Thanks in advance!

• John Huebner

• May 20, 2020 at 10:44 pm

try adding a check to see if it is then main query

function wpb_search_filter( $query ) {

   if(!is_admin() && is_search() && $query->is_main_query()){

    //..... code continues

• Martijnvh

• May 22, 2020 at 5:16 pm

Hi John,

Thanks for the incredibly fast and accurate answer. Problem solved!

Thanks