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

[gibrown]

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

[robfelty]

I tested this a bit today using Yoast, which is what WooCommerce.com uses, (and many other sites as well). Currently we exclude Yoast settings from sync

I think we may want to revisit that, at least the _yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex setting.

I am happy to help with this project in whatever way.

[gibrown]

I wonder if there is also an overlap between this issue and https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/17116 (which has just come up again). I think we really need some design though tbh. There are a lot of cases here.