One of my personal annoyances is the way WordPress search includes the blog pages within the search results, if your using thumbnails alongside your search results for example it makes the page look awful, the other downside is the page results are often irrelevant to what the reader is actually searching for.
But there is a way to remedy this issue and make a quick snippet addition so pages are never included within the search results.
This is a quick hack that takes place within the Theme Functions file (functions.php) file, so backup before you start tinkering!
functions.php
function no_pages_in_search($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', 'post');
};
return $query;
};
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'no_pages_in_search');
Now when you search on your blog you should have no pages show in the results, this snippet basically adds a filter on the results and removes any pages that match the search term.