Title: New Theme development – simple search.php example code?
Last modified: August 11, 2021

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# New Theme development – simple search.php example code?

 *  Resolved [Martin M. Meier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmm44/)
 * (@mmm44)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-theme-development-simple-search-php-example-code/)
 * Hi, for hours I read now along the documentation, the manual, the comments and
   everything else. Instead of puzzling information together, it would be extremly
   helpful for me, just to have a working example of a working search.php.
 * Since I have to build a custom theme for a project, I could work around it then,
   but for the life of me I can’t get Relevanssi to work…
 * Best Martin
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fnew-theme-development-simple-search-php-example-code%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-theme-development-simple-search-php-example-code/#post-14759546)
 * The search results page is just a [WordPress Loop](https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop).
   That’s all it needs, and in general there should be nothing else in it.
 * The default WP themes have good examples of how to build a modern search.php 
   template.

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 * Last reply from: [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-theme-development-simple-search-php-example-code/#post-14759546)
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