exclude category from Search

hi 😀 i want to exclude category from Search i want to just show 1 category in my blog + in my Search to ther any plugin for it or any code to do it?

i did try many code like this one

<?php

add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘ja_search_filter’ );
/**
* Exclude category 7 from search results.
*
* @since ?.?.?
* @author Jared Atchison
* @link https://gist.github.com/1300302
*
* @param WP_Query $query Existing query object
* @return WP_Query Amended query object
*/
function ja_search_filter( $query ) {

if ( $query->is_search && !is_admin() )
$query->set( ‘cat’,’-7′ );

return $query;

}

its not working can someone help me 🙂