AndrewUlrich

This plugin creates two widgets:
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<li>A widget where you can choose from all the categories in your blog.</li>
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This is similar to what newegg.com uses, where you can select multiple categories, and it will only show posts belonging to all the categories you select, and such categories can be narrowed down by selecting their subcategories.
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<li>A widget where you can choose from all the tags in your blog</li>
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You can select the tags you want to search for, and it will only show posts that have all of the tags you selected.
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
After upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2 it is highly recommended that you deactivate the plugin and then re-activate it. Unfortunately WordPress 3.1 no longer calls register_activation_hook when the plugins are upgraded, so this may be necessary, otherwise you may not see all your categories.
When using version 3.2 or above, and excluding categories, the display order may or may not be mixed up when you exclude a parent category.

Faceted Search

This plugin will create widgets that you can use to conduct faceted searches using the categories or tags on your site.

Paul Menard

Note to all used who tried the version 2.0 and 2.0.1 there were was bugs in the logic which upgrades the previous version of the Simply Exclude configuration to the version 2.0 format. If you lost your settings you can now reload them manually. Simply go into simply Exclude > Settings and at the very bottom is an option to reload the configuration again.
Provides an interface to selectively exclude/include Post Types, Taxonomies and Authors 4 actions used by WordPress
is_front – When the user views the Front page. 
is_archive – When the user views an category or tags Archive. 
is_search – When the user views a search result page. 
is_feed – When a Feed is viewed/requested.
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Simply Exclude

The Plugin works perfect and it's exactly what I searched to hide the Portfolio in search. Thanks for this great Plugin.



works perfect

I was wary with 3 years since last update, but still has 100% functionality. Works exactly as advertised.

Still works great

Note to all used who tried the version 2.0 and 2.0.1 there were was bugs in the logic which upgrades the previous version of the Simply Exclude config …

Faceted Search vs Simply Exclude