Matt Schofield

I got it. I was over complicating things. I’ve managed to exclude specific pages and posts by their post ID from Live Search Results using the following php snippet:

/**
 * Exclude specific post IDs from WordPress search results.
 */
function exclude_posts_pages_from_search( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_search() && ! is_admin() ) { // Check if it's a front-end search.
        $excluded_post_ids = array( 245, 3860, 3864, 3862, 7930, 9943 ); // Replace with your post/page IDs.

        if ( ! empty( $excluded_post_ids ) ) {
            $query->set( 'post__not_in', $excluded_post_ids );
        }
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_posts_pages_from_search' );

Please consider providing this granular control for Live Search Results in Astra. Thanks again for looking.

hi @hjogiupdraftplus

Great job, thanks. Marking as resolved

I added the following code snippet to our site to patch the issue for now. Headings within group blocks are now reliably smooth-scrolled to when clicked from the Simpletoc table of contents.

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    document.querySelectorAll('.simpletoc-list a').forEach(anchor => {
        anchor.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            const targetId = this.getAttribute('href').split('#')[1];
            const targetElement = document.getElementById(targetId);
            if (targetElement) {
                const rect = targetElement.getBoundingClientRect();
                const scrollTop = window.pageYOffset || document.documentElement.scrollTop;
                const targetOffsetTop = rect.top + scrollTop;
                window.scrollTo({
                    top: targetOffsetTop,
                    behavior: 'smooth'
                });
            }
        });
    });
});

As a follow up observation…

If you select the Group block in the editor, and go to Style > Dimensions, and then add a custom “0” value to both the padding Top and Bottom and padding Left and Right properties, the scroll to the heading within that Group block from the SimpleTOC menu functions properly.

Please note this was reported as an Astra problem, but was in fact not an Astra problem. It just looked and tested like one. It was in fact a me problem. Resolved.

Sure.

We’re using only your plugin to manage all the site schema markup.

We have added Schema Type “Course” with a Placement of “Post Category” “Equal to”… (and then the appropriate category).

In Gutenberg editor on each of our Course pages, we scroll down to the Schema a Structured Data panel, select the “Course — Category…” and then manually enter the values into the provided fields. It is within there that we ideally require the ‘hasCourseInstance’ and ‘Offers’ fields, so we can satisfy what Google are looking for.

Thanks again for looking at this.