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1. 3stripe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm a bit confused.

   Is it possible to link to an empty search page?

   I'm using the nice-search plugin (http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/nice-search/), so that something like say myblog/search/the gives me a results page as you would expect.

   But loading myblog/search/ on it's own gives me a blank page from the_title downwards.

   I had the same problem before I tried the nice-search plugin so I know it's not related to that...

   Surely there is way to link to an empty search page? (I've got a /search link in my navbar, hence the question)

   Thanks!

2. 3stripe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have just realised, it's not actually showing an empty page when I goto myblog/search/, it's trying to load a 404 page, which I didn't have defined in my style.

   So including a search box on my 404 page helps a good deal!

   The problem is, you are still taken to myblog/?s= if you then leave the search box blank, and hit enter.

   Is there a way to define this redirect action?

   Maybe it is actually the nice-search plugin that needs some extra code?

   function txfx_nice_search() {
       if ( is_search() && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-admin/') === false && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/search/') === false ) {
           wp_redirect(get_bloginfo('home') . '/search/' . str_replace(' ', '+', str_replace('%20', '+', get_query_var('s'))));
           exit();
       }
   }

3. 3stripe
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Or, how can I modify the search form, so that it only submits if the input textarea has something in it!? Maybe that would be easier...

   (Sorry for talking to myself)

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