the_posts hook, which set of posts?
I’d say it’s perfectly fine to do it the way you’re doing it now, that is function my_the_posts($posts, $query = false) { if( is_search() ){ // do your thing here } return $posts; } add_filter( ‘the_posts’, ‘my_the_posts’ ); Don’t worry about those excerpts in the footer, even though they may be part of the search … Read more