Only show meta on one post type on search results page

Question

I want to remove the post meta from all post types that are not "posts" from my site or at least from the search results.

Im currently using the Jnews theme and in the search results page I get all post types (posts, pages, products) but I'm only interested in leaving the post meta (.jeg_post_meta) for posts and removing it for all other post types like pages, products and others that the results page can bring.

.jeg_post_meta is the style class that the search results page is using for all meta from all post types.

Answer 1

You didn't provide any of the output code for the search results output, so what I've provided below is a guess based on how things 'should' work - chances are things will look different in your theme so you'll need to sort out how to apply the same logic.

In your search results template (content-search.php maybe?) you'll have your search results pulled in and they'll all be in a variable like so:

$search_query

That'll be the results of the search query (may be named something different)...

So in your while() loop you'll want to check get the 'type' for each result:

$type = $search_query->post->post_type;

Then before you output the HTML and data for the post meta, you'll check to see if the type matches post, like so:

if( $type == 'post' ) :
  //your post meta output code
endif;

Putting the whole thing together... and remember, lots of guesswork in here:

<?php
    while( $search_query->have_posts() ) {
        $search_query->the_post();
        $type = $search_query->post->post_type;
        the_title();
        if( $type == 'post' ) :
            echo '<div class="jeg_post_meta">';
                echo 'By ' . the_author_posts_link() . 'on ' . the_time( 'F jS, Y' ) . 'in ' . the_category( ', ' ) . '.';
            echo '</div>';
        endif;
        echo '<div class="jeg_post_content">';
            the_excerpt();
        echo '</div>';
    }
?>

Just a reminder though that you shouldn't be editing a third-party theme because your edits will get lost if/when it updates and you'll have to start over. So you want to do this in a child theme where you're overriding existing templates and content parts.