Auto Redirecting from search box on parent page to child pages

  • TOPGUNN

    (@topgunn)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Im new to WP and website building.

    I was wondering how I could create a parent page with a search box and when you enter a search item into the searchbox and click submit that it would direct you to the item page within my website.

    Say I have a site about college reviews. I would like the user to be able to type in a certain college and click submit and it would redirect that user to that colleges page in my website.

    I would also like for the child pages to be hidden, not seperate tabs on the parent page.

    Also Id like the search box not to be a drop down box.

    Any suggestions wold be appreciated. If there are any books or links that discuss how to do this that would be great too.

    Thank you,

    Clint

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    There’s a search already built into WordPress. Navigate to Appearance->Widgets and try adding the Search Widget to your site’s sidebar.

    Thread Starter TOPGUNN

    (@topgunn)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    I know theres a search bar but my questions are more related to setting up the site for autodirecting from the search bar on the parent page to child pages. i dont want to see child page tabs on the parent page too.

    thanks for your response

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    If I understand you correctly and you don’t want child pages to appear on the search results, that could be handled via your theme’s search.php template file.

    Thread Starter TOPGUNN

    (@topgunn)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    where can i access that file? thank you

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    If your theme has a search.php file, it will be in the theme’s folder and accessible via Appearance->Editor. If you can’t find the file (and not all themes do contain a search.php template file) you’ll need to create one.

    tomaltman

    (@tomaltman)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    esmi is correct – but this is not a simple task.

    You’d need to have them search for the perfect phrase to match something unique about the child page…

    You may to take a look at jobs.wordpress.net and get some help…

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    You’d need to have them search for the perfect phrase to match something unique about the child page…

    What if you hid the child links based on post_parent but replaced those links with some sort of place-holding text that included a link to the parent page? It should be possible to come up with something that was still effective, yes?

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