LD Only Search is a thin add-on that restricts the front-end WP search to LearnDash post types (sfwd-courses, sfwd-lessons, sfwd-topic, sfwd-quiz, sfwd-certificates) by filtering pre_get_posts. Its admin is a single settings panel with checkboxes; nothing in WP Admin shows you the actual indexed corpus the way the search will see it.

SleekView reads wp_options for the LD Only Search configuration key and then joins against wp_posts filtered by the enabled LearnDash post types. Course managers get a single table of every searchable LearnDash item with its status, last update date, and parent course, so they can confirm at a glance that the catalogue a student would search through actually matches the published one.

Inline status edits (publish, draft, private) route through the standard WordPress post API so LearnDash hooks fire normally. Direct edits to the LD Only Search option are wrapped in update_option so any cache invalidations the add-on listens for run as expected. Multisite installations get per-subsite scoped views automatically.

Scoped site search is one of those features that quietly decides whether learners can find what they paid for, and most teams ship it without ever auditing the corpus it actually exposes. LD Only Search does its job: it tells WordPress to ignore everything outside the LearnDash post types you tick, which is exactly right when your blog and marketing pages shouldn't clutter a student's search. The problem is everything downstream.

A draft lesson never appears in search, but the settings panel does not tell you that. A topic with the wrong parent course shows up where it should not, but you only find out when a confused learner emails support. A new content editor publishes lessons under the wrong post type and the indexed catalogue silently drifts from the published catalogue.

SleekView turns the audit into a table that mirrors exactly what scoped search would return: every post in the configured types, with its status, its parent course, and the option row driving the scope, all in one filterable surface. Catalogue managers stop guessing, content editors stop missing drafts, customer success stops opening tickets they should have been able to answer in five seconds.