SearchCloak allows you to hide specific Posts and Pages from search results.
There are many reasons you may want to remove specific pages from search results:
- Parent pages used to organize URLs or menus, but don’t contain actual content
- Partial page “sections” assembled by plugins into more complete pages
- Pay-per-click Landing Pages (You probably don’t want those showing up in search engines.)
- Pages that present similar or duplicate content that might otherwise appear multiple times in search results
This plugin adds a “SearchCloak” option to the edit screen of Posts and Pages.
When running the Gutenberg editor, this option block will appear under the “Document” tab in the right-hand column.
The options are:
show – Show this Page or Post in search results (default)
cloak – Hide this Page or Post from search results
children – Hide this Page and all its children from search results (not available on Posts since they don’t have children)
Features:
- Cloaked pages are also marked as “noindex” for search engines
- You can hide ALL the children of a given page
- Compatible with most search plugins
- Works with Google Custom Search
- Admin search results DO include cloaked pages
- Cleans up multiple “robots” meta tags in the head section (sometimes happens with multiple plugins or settings)
- Cloaking can be enabled for custom post types in the dashboard
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.