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Smart Search - Ignore Pages

Post by SPDJoomla4 » Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:57 pm

Hi,
There are certain pages, like Home/About/Contact etc.. ,which the users will never need either to be searched or returned in a Search Results. Can I exclude them in smart search?

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Re: Smart Search - Ignore Pages

Post by mjparadac » Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:21 pm

Yes, you can choose what content is indexed and what is not
This is a documentation for Joomla! 3, but is similar to Joomla! 4
https://docs.joomla.org/Help310:Compone ... ed_Content
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Re: Smart Search - Ignore Pages

Post by Webdongle » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:42 pm

If you click 'Help' on the Smart search page you will see the help page https://docs.joomla.org/Help4.x:Smart_S ... ed_Content
http://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/
https://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/updating-joomla.html
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Re: Smart Search - Ignore Pages

Post by SPDJoomla4 » Wed Aug 10, 2022 2:20 am

Well that embarrassing, don't know why but always forget about the Help in Joomla admin. Thanks both for pointers


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