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Delete a Vertical from Search

Who does this article apply to?

  • Enterprise, Partner, and Small Business accounts.
  • Accounts in all regions.

If you want to completely delete a vertical from your Search experience that is built on the Theme, there are two main steps you need to complete:

  1. Delete a vertical from the Search backend
  2. Delete the vertical results page files from the frontend

This will delete any work you have done for a particular vertical. 

Step 1: Delete Vertical from the Backend

  1. Navigate to Search > [[Your Experience]] > Verticals.
  2. Select the vertical you want to remove. Click on the Settings tab.
  3. Click Delete Vertical.
  4. Fill in the vertical key in the modal and click Delete.
  5. Save your configuration.
  6. Run a few test queries to confirm that the vertical is no longer appearing in the Search results.

Step 2: Delete Vertical from the Frontend (Theme)

  1. Navigate to Pages > Your Site > Deploys.
  2. Open the Code Editor and click the pencil icon next to the master branch.

  3. Verticals are comprised of two files that you need to delete (read more about vertical results page file structure here). To delete a file, hover over it and click the 3 dots to open a dropdown menu, then select Delete.

    • config > [[verticalName]].json — for example, if your vertical was for faqs, delete the file called faqs.json.
    • pages > [[verticalName]].html.hbs — for example, if your vertical was for faqs, delete the file called faqs.html.hbs.

    Delete option for faqs.json file

  4. Open the Live Preview to confirm that the vertical is no longer appearing in the Search experience.
  5. Click the Commit button at the top of the screen.
  6. Add a commit message like "deleting faqs vertical".
  7. Press the Confirm button.
  8. On the Deploys screen, open the Staging link found at the top of the screen. QA the experience to make sure everything is working properly. 

Step 3: Push to Production

Once you delete your vertical from both the frontend and backend, you are ready to make the changes live on your site.

Frontend — On the Deploys screen, find the commit you made in Step 2. Click the dropdown on the right and select Publish to production.

Backend — Navigate to Search > Your Experience > Revision History and make sure that Production is set to the new version that you saved in Step 1.