Search result count not matching actual result

If you want to exclude certain posts, wouldn’t the conditional be:

 if ($value != '' &&  get_post_meta($post->ID, 'value', true) != 'value_to_exclude')

Anyhow, you’re excluding AFTER you run the query. So $total_results will always be ‘wrong’.
The better approach is to write sql for WP_Query that does the excluding for you.
But you didn’t include the query, so that cannot be addressed.

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