Title: increase search result
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# increase search result

 *  [dazbobaby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dazbobaby/)
 * (@dazbobaby)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-search-result/)
 * I’d like to see more search results.
    Currently the results page shows only 2,
   thats because my settings for reading is only 2 posts. So please make a seperate
   section for search results, so people can see more without clicking older posts.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-search-result/#post-1351486)
 * This is not a WordPress issue but a theme problem. Try adding next and previous
   pagination to your theme’s search template file.
 *  Thread Starter [dazbobaby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dazbobaby/)
 * (@dazbobaby)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-search-result/#post-1351732)
 * It’s not a theme problem esmi, the theme does have a previous and next button.
   
   What is needed is a search function that shows more results based on a set number
   of results and not a set number of blog posts shown on the front page.
 * If there are coding tweaks that need to be done, mind, I’d just like to be shown
   how.
 *  Thread Starter [dazbobaby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dazbobaby/)
 * (@dazbobaby)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-search-result/#post-1351733)
 * I found the answer, and it works brilliantly.
    [http://www.artiss.co.uk/2009/02/improving-wordpress-search](http://www.artiss.co.uk/2009/02/improving-wordpress-search)
 * Increasing the number of Search Results Per Page
 * The one problem with summarising your search results is that the blogs are a 
   lot smaller on the page. WordPress only gives you one place to specify the number
   of posts per page and this applies to all forms of output – this means that the
   summarised results will take up a lot less of the page and, if there’s a lot 
   of results, you may be aching to increase this number.
 * In the case of my blog, I have the number of posts set to 5. I found that the
   number of summarised search results would look best at 16.
 * Unfortunately, this is a bit of a manual fix. First of all, dig out your themes
   search.php file again. Hopefully you should be able to find the following line
   of code within it…
 * > <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
 * When you have, insert the following just before it…
 * > <?php
   >  $wp_query->query_vars[“posts_per_page”] = 16; $wp_query->get_posts();?
   > >
 * This will override the number of posts just for the search results.

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 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
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 * Last reply from: [dazbobaby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dazbobaby/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-search-result/#post-1351733)
 * Status: not resolved

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