Search location

  • On my site, the search works fine when you’re on my “home” view. However, when you go onto a page that I created, the search seems to fail. How can I get it so that if I’m trying to search on a page instead of my main page, it’ll search the main pages?

    I think it has something to do wtih the fact that I’m now in www. myurl.com/pages/ instead of www. myurl.com so it can’t search properly. Anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks!

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  • Go into the search’s form tag (in page.php if you’re using this for your Pages template) and change the action value to:

    action="/"

    or:

    action="/index.php"

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>”>

    is what I had before, after changing the action to “/” or “/index.php” the search function breaks.

    My search function is located in my sidebar.php file which is called on by everything.

    Hmm. The action attribute just points to the file/script the search is to occur off of, which for WordPress is index.php. So using “/” or “/index.php” *should* be all one need do…

    I just tried this in the default theme (which also has search in the sidebar, but loads the search form from searchform.php) on a test site with no problems.

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    hmm, i’m currently using a “search.php” page for my searches to show up, coudl taht be affecting it at all?

    Mayhaps. Does pointing the action value at search.php work?

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    heh, i tried /search.php and that didn’t work, and then tried /wp-contents/themes/taibros/search.php and that didn’t work iether.

    Ok…what’s in search.php? Is there a WP loop for the posts to display? As I noted above, I had no difficulty resetting the action, so I’m not sure why you’re running into a problem.

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    my search.php file basically redirects to my archives.php file which just tells it how I want it to show up.

    Thread Starter lawtai

    (@lawtai)

    weird, i just tried /index.php even though I know I tried it before with itnot working, and it worked. Thanks for the help!

    vono

    (@vono)

    Thanks for the help on this. Make sure you edit where it appears on the page vs the searchform.php

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