Automattic / Automattic/jetpack

Search: allow excluding posts or groups of posts using the UI rather than code

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[Feature] Search [Plugin] Search New Feature
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Description

### Impacted plugin

Search

### What

We can hard code excluding posts, but can't just click a box or add a filter

### How

There are multiple cases where it would be helpful to exclude posts from all search results.

We could also make it easy to import these cases. Things like:
- excluding all posts that are also excluded from robots.txt
- anything that has noindex set - from https://jetpack.com/support/sitemaps/ settings
- various meta created by other plugins
- we use the _jetpack_exclude_from_search post meta to exclude certain post types based on their registered settings

We should figure out the different cases and support better and easier customization.

Examples are from pflv1o-tj-p2

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing _jetpack_exclude_from_search post meta and the linked sitemap settings for noindex behavior. The issue also calls out robots.txt exclusions and metadata from other plugins, but does not identify files, tests, or a specific entry point; clarify which cases and UI customization are in scope before implementation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wordpress
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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