Title: Search doesn't exclude posts properly
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Search doesn't exclude posts properly

 *  Resolved [castalos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castalos/)
 * (@castalos)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-exclude-posts-properly/)
 * I’m seeing this problem.
 * I’ve got Search Everything installed and configured to search posts only and 
   to search tags.
 * I use query_posts($args) to get the posts that meet the user specified search
   words as shown here:
 *     ```
       $args = array('s' => get_search_query(), 'meta_query' => array(
       array( 'key' => '_Original Post ID', 'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS')));
   
       query_posts($args);
       ```
   
 * to exclude posts that do not have an Original Post ID.
 * The results I get seem to be a concatenation of the search results (with the 
   Original Post ID = NOT EXISTS posts excluded), plus any post that has the search
   keywords as a tag (irregardless of whether the Original Post ID exists on that
   post or not).
 * Is this a bug in Search Everything or am I just not understanding something?
 * Thanks,
    Coleen
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/)

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 *  Thread Starter [castalos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castalos/)
 * (@castalos)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-exclude-posts-properly/#post-6611724)
 * Disregard – it is working correctly.

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