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1. kcjones76
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm not sure what is going on?
   I was initially working.
   I disabled all the plug-ins thinking there might have been a conflict... nada

   can someone take a peek?

   brand new to wordpress, so please bear with me.

   indesign1200.com

2. omgitztrey
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Open your search.php or whatever and edit the syntax

   http://www.indesign1200.com/blog/%3C?s=test is the incorrect syntax

   It should be more in the lines of http://example.com/?s=zac+efron

3. kcjones76
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   it works fine with the default widget.php
   but when I use the the theme's file (r_sidebar.php, the return URL includes "%3C"
   if i delete those characters out of the URL I get the proper result. It's trying to create search result page that includes "%3C" which i believe is the "<"

   when searching for "indesign" this is what I get:

   default widget.php - search result URL
   http://www.indesign1200.com/blog/?s=indesign

   theme included r_sidebar.php - result URL
   http://www.indesign1200.com/blog/%3C?s=indesign

4. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   There's probably a code error lurking in r_sidebar.php

5. kcjones76
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   well, that's what i'm trying to figure out...
   i'm not sure how to validate it though.

6. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It's most likely a php code error, which is not something that the validator is helpful with.

7. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Oh dear, your search form appears to be both malfunctioning and possibly insecure (PHP_SELF). Look in r_sidebar.php or searchform.php and replace this:

   <h2>Find It</h2>
   <div class="search">
   <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>/">
   <input type="text" name="s" id="s" value="search this site..."/>
   </form>
   </div>

   With this:

   <h2>Find It</h2>
   <div class="search">
   <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
   <input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
   </form>
   </div>

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