WP Query Counter is designed to aid developers in using the WordPress query functions as efficiently as possible.
The plugin starts a counter when WordPress initializes and displays the number of executed queries in an absolutely positioned div in the lower right-hand corner of your screen.
You can check it out here!
Add the following to your functions.php file to exclude pages from the search results of your WordPress blog.
//Filter out pages from search results
function search_exclude_pages($query) {
if ($query->is_search) {
$query->set('post_type', 'post');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','search_exclude_pages');