Title: Creating custom search.php Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Creating custom search.php * [EnergyFreak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/energyfreak/) * (@energyfreak) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-searchphp/) * Hi, * I’ve been searching the web and codex for hours and can’t find anyone that has done this before. * I want to create my own search.php. Essentially, I want my search.php to be like my category.php. So if it returns a post or many posts it will show them just like if it was posts in a category. * I’ve separated searchform.php and search.php. This is my search.php: * ```

__( 'Previous page', 'twentyfifteen' ), 'next_text' => __( 'Next page', 'twentyfifteen' ), 'before_page_number' => '' . __( 'Page', 'twentyfifteen' ) . ' ', ) ); // If no content, include the "No posts found" template. else : get_template_part( 'content', 'none' ); endif; ?>
``` * This is my searchform.php: * ``` ``` * When I enter something in my search box, nothing happens, it just refreshes the page… Do I need to add something in functions.php or…? By the way, this is a complete custom theme, I am converting static HTML files to a wordpress theme so I did not code all the default wordpress PHP pages yet. Could be the reason? * Thanks for any help! The topic ‘Creating custom search.php’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [EnergyFreak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/energyfreak/) * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-searchphp/) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics