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1. JayBro
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Hi there,
   I just wanted to post a solution I haven't found on this site yet. It's not the most clean solution but a very simple one. (it is not optimized either, but it gives a fair idea)

   I hated the ?s=searchword, so I wrote some javascript that puts a clean "search/searchword" in the url. Put this in your searchform.php in the template directory:
   

   <script type="text/javascript">
   	function doSearch() {
   location.href='/search/'+document.getElementById('s').value;
   	}
   </script>
   <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/" onSubmit="doSearch(); return false;">
   <input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" class="inputText" />
   <input type="button" id="searchsubmit" class="inputSubmit" value="Search" onClick="doSearch();" />
   </form>

   Preview here.

2. Doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Alternatively, you could just do this:

   <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
   <input type="text" value="<?php echo attribute_escape($s); ?>" name="s" id="s" class="inputText" />
   <input type="button" id="searchsubmit" class="inputSubmit" value="Search" />
   </form>

   Has the same effect - no extra script needed.

   Or, if you wanted default text to show up in the search field:

   <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
   <input type="text" value="Search Me!" name="s" id="s" class="inputText" />
   <input type="button" id="searchsubmit" class="inputSubmit" value="Search" />
   </form>

   Still works :)

3. Dgold
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Weird, I just tested the search on my site.

   When I use the built-in WP Search Form that's in the Kubrick theme, it sends me to the URL
   mysite.com/blog/index.php?s=schools

   but if I type the permalink
   mysite.com/blog/search/schools
   it works and gives the same search results page.

   So I think in my case, I only need to fix the Search Form to go to the better permalink in the first place, right?

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