Adding a search.php to my theme

  • kcox117

    (@kcox117)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi guys,

    So I’ve been struggling with an issue when it comes to my wordpress search results. I’ve read this article:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page

    And I have no problem creating my own search page/search box. The problem for me is in the results.

    See this page: http://playground.boardtronics.com/?s=install

    username: admin
    password: matrix1

    This is a search results page for the keyword “install”, which should bring up a lot of results on my site. But go ahead and inspect element on the page and look at the code, and you’ll find the results are there – the divs are there – but the divs are empty. It’s as if the system knows the exact pages/posts to return, but doesn’t actually display any code inside the divs.

    I’ve read the way you’re supposed to customize your search results is via the search.php template in your theme, but by default, my theme doesn’t have one. I created one in my theme and filled it with “<p>hello</p>” and when I went to that search result page again on my website (http://playground.boardtronics.com/?s=install), it was an entire white page with the word “hello” on it, as expected. So when I create a search.php file within my theme, it does have control over those results. (I’ve since deleted the search.php file so that you can look at the problem).

    So I’m looking for code to put into a search.php template, or any type of direction that will actually allow the results to show up on my search results page.

    Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks in advance for your help!

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    The “easy” way to do it is to copy another page template file (I’d recommend stating with your themes index.php file) into your search.php file and making the changes that you want from there.

    Oh, and as a warning, you should be doing this in a child theme. If you do this in your main theme and there’s any future updates, it will wipe out any modifications that you’ve done, including adding this new file.

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