exclude-search

Exclude Search

Exclude posts, pages, products or custom posts from WordPress search results.

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21.8 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

80active installs

1.5Kdownloads

4.0rating

0unresolved threads

1complaints analyzed

1praise analyzed

Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

16 / 24 rows with source links

66.7% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

8 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days

41recent 30 days 168previous 30 days -75.6%movement 401shown total

Related Opportunities

2 markets

Commercial opportunity Exclude Post: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 64.4 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Exclude Page: Agency visual QA and update safety agency visual QA and update safety · final 61.2 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Pagination bug on post/page esclusion settings

Pagination bug on post/page esclusion settings: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Pagination bug on post/page esclusion settings There is a bug regarding pagination where saving list of posts marked for exclusion, when moving to the next 15 posts, the following “save” unmarks all other previously marked posts.

mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.69

Unusable: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Unusable This could be plugin number #1, but it hasn’t been updated for a year, and its bugs make it unusable.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.67

[NSFW] No Pages found on all post types after pagination

[NSFW] No Pages found on all post types after pagination: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity

[NSFW] No Pages found on all post types after pagination I found a bug in the Exclude Search plugin’s functionality when using pagination in the WordPress admin Posts tab.

question support · medium severity · relevance 0.63

Question on pages selected for no search

Question on pages selected for no search: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Question on pages selected for no search Hi: How can I find the lists of names from my site that I selected for exclude search Thanks Rufus Rufus@createadesign.net Hi: How can I find the lists of names from my site that I selected for exclude search Thanks Rufus Rufus@createadesign.net

praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44

Simple Yet Powerful Search Control – A Must-Have Plugin!

Simple Yet Powerful Search Control – A Must-Have Plugin!: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Simple Yet Powerful Search Control – A Must-Have Plugin!

Competitor Context

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Hide from Search praise owner · intel 61.6 · weakness 43.3

praise owner

7 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor WordPress Search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes

source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

5 shown from 5 collected

question Question on pages selected for no search support · 2026-04-29T20:37:10+00:00 · medium severity · exclude from search

Question on pages selected for no search: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Question on pages selected for no search Hi: How can I find the lists of names from my site that I selected for exclude search Thanks Rufus Rufus@createadesign.net Hi: How can I find the lists of names from my site that I selected for exclude search Thanks Rufus Rufus@createadesign.net

search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Unusable (3 stars) review · 2026-03-31T14:39:04+00:00 · medium severity · exclude from search

Unusable: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Unusable This could be plugin number #1, but it hasn’t been updated for a year, and its bugs make it unusable.

bugs search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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complaint Pagination bug on post/page esclusion settings support · 2025-02-13T09:53:08+00:00 · medium severity · exclude from search

Pagination bug on post/page esclusion settings: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Pagination bug on post/page esclusion settings There is a bug regarding pagination where saving list of posts marked for exclusion, when moving to the next 15 posts, the following “save” unmarks all other previously marked posts.

bugs missing feature reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed [NSFW] No Pages found on all post types after pagination support · 2025-01-22T07:31:10+00:00 · medium severity · exclude from search

[NSFW] No Pages found on all post types after pagination: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [NSFW] No Pages found on all post types after pagination I found a bug in the Exclude Search plugin’s functionality when using pagination in the WordPress admin Posts tab.

bugs support value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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praise Simple Yet Powerful Search Control – A Must-Have Plugin! (5 stars) review · 2025-01-17T10:38:34+00:00 · medium severity · exclude from search

Simple Yet Powerful Search Control – A Must-Have Plugin!: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple Yet Powerful Search Control – A Must-Have Plugin!

performance easy reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check exclude post publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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