How can I exclude the whole page from indexing?

[sergeysova]

Hello, thank you for the great tool!

I have a documentation website. Some pages have content, but another is just a redirect page. I want to exclude them from search results. How can I do this?

[bglw]

Hey @sergeysova 👋

Currently the best way to achieve this is to utilize the data-pagefind-body tag (docs)

This tag should be added to the pages you do want in your index — any remaining pages will be excluded automatically.

Let me know if that works out :)

[Karlstens]

In my usage case, I'd like pagefind to search 99% of the site, with exception to a few generated pages that summarize articles (that act as a site glossary, summary and index).

For such a site layout, I'd like to add a pagefind tag to the three pages to exclude them from search. Is this possible?

Or alternatively, is there a config that where site path ignore terms can be specified? For example, I want pagefind to ignore the following;

.\help\glossary
.\help\indexing
.\help\sitemap

So effectively, the ability to add *\help* to a pagefind blacklist.

.\help\glossary
.\help\indexing
.\help\sitemap
.\help\support

Or, an array such as [".\help\glossary", ".\help\indexing", ".\help\sitemap"] where the sub folder "support" is still needing to be indexed.