Search results in 404

Might as well fix that </h2> tag in the 404 while you’re at it.
<h2 class="title title-single"><a href="#" title="Error 404 - Not Found">404 Error - Not found<</a>/h2>

Should be <h2 class="title title-single"><a href="#" title="Error 404 - Not Found">404 Error - Not found<</a></h2>

When I use the search box it simply returns me to the home page. No 404, no list of found posts.

I tried to follow the information on https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Search_Page, but I couldn’t get that to work any better.

Some more explicit guidance, or better yet the corrected script for the searchform.php, would really help.

Hi Macadk,

Are you the theme designer?

You need to create a page search.php in the themes directory.
the link provided offers step by step instructions on creating a search page.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Search_Page

shalzers,

No, I’m not the theme designer. I wish I had that level of skill. In fact this problem has inspired me to educate myself further on the code side of WordPress.

On the positive side, I tracked the fault to the Robots Meta plugin from Yoast that I was using. It just wouldn’t play well with WP 3.0.1. Once I disabled that, I was able to get the search box to work perfectly.

I also discovered that Yoast has published a new ‘all-in-one’ plugin that handles the robots meta tags as well as a lot of additional SEO tasks much more elegantly than the three plugins that I was using for that purpose. It’s worth checking out if you are looking for a good SEO plugin.

https://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/