iSaumya

Glad to hear that this issue had been fixed in your codebase and will be part of the next release.

Marking this thread as resolved now.

Thanks a lot for the help @mateico. I had to tweak the code a little bit as for media search the path used is /wp/v2/media and not /wp/v2/search like it’s used for post or term.

Anyway, here is my updated code:

// Remove the "term" and "attachment" items from the hyperlink search results in the block editor
add_filter('rest_request_after_callbacks', function($response, $handler, $request ) {
  // Get the route
  $route = $request->get_route();

  // Check if the request is for the block editor's search
  if (strpos($route, '/wp/v2/search') !== false) {
    // Get the search query, per_page and type
    $search_query = $request->get_param('search');
    $per_page = $request->get_param('per_page');
    $search_type = $request->get_param('type');

    // If the type is 'term', return an empty response
    if ($search_type === 'term' && !empty($search_query) && !empty($per_page)) {
      return new \WP_REST_Response([], 200);
    }
  } elseif (strpos($route, '/wp/v2/media') !== false) { // Check if the request is for the media library
    // Get the search query and per_page
    $per_page = $request->get_param('per_page');
    $search_query = $request->get_param('search');

    // If the search query and per_page are not empty, return an empty response
    if (!empty($search_query) && !empty($per_page)) {
      return new \WP_REST_Response([], 200);
    }
  }

  // Return the response
  return $response;
}, 10, 3 );

But to be honest, this feels more like a hack than a proper solution. There should have been a filter allowing users to modify the post types and taxonomies that they would like to include/exclude from the hyperlink search.

Thanks again for your response and all the help. Really can’t thank you enough. 🙂