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Just for the record fellas, succeeded in sorting out the search issue on both the Main theme search and on the Search Widget used in my footer!

Both searchform.php (for search widget) AND header.php (for main search) contained this code (in this particular theme at least) and needed to be changed from:

<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>

to

<form method=”get” action=” https://www.sitedomain.com/index.php”&gt;

Banners are all working again thanks to your time and further investigation, Site address is how it should be, and search on my site all fixed! AWESOME! Saved me a load of extra work!!

Now it really is RESOLVED (at my end too!) ??
Cheers guys!

It works on search widgets too! But I had to change both header.php AND searchform.php

Cheers!

This above info from you both was extremely helpful for me as I had the exact same issue with my main WP search, as I am also using a static.html file as my homepage, as a prettier ‘shop front’ basically (and use WP for a basic cms tool really) anyway…I was stuck! …Until seeing this solution post! So thanks for that!!!

Cheers!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH* FOR ALL YOUR HELP QURL!! IT’S GREATLY* APPRECIATED!

OK ??

I will see if this has any ramifications, (all else fails I have a backup to rolback to) appreciate what you are telling me, I just wouldn’t be able to achieve the same functionality or look/feel… truthfully wouldn;t know where to start to modify the theme to even look anywhere near this static.html…

THANK YOU VERY MICH FOR ALL YOUR HELP QURL!! IT’S GREATY APPRECIATED!

Cheers and ALL THE BEST!

I hear ya, and thanks so much for your help here guys YOUR DYNAMIC WIDGETS PLUGIN INDEED REMAINS SOUND & INTACT!!!! ??

…but we really need that ‘exhibition’ page here, to help stand out in a saturated affiliate marketplace in ‘this’ industry…

How do we go about changing the action on that searchform?

We looked at the php, but all we can see is that in the php is that it ‘calls’ for the url – how can we specify the exact url we want the searchform to well… search?

<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url‘); ?> how can we get this action pointing to https://www.sitedomain.com/index.php instead of this generic ‘url’

Changing the site URL was the only solution we could find ??

Would appreciate any other advice you could share to get this working guys!

Arrghhh? Crazy!! OK we tried it again, just to be SURE since you’ve highlighted this Site URL!

And it HAS made the difference!!! (???)…. we tried this yesterday and it made no difference or I would admit our error! I swear! Haha! Feel so bad for wasting your time! :S

…But now we’re left with a redundant SEARCH function on our WP site… we really need it! ??

Any idea how we tell our search function to still use https://www.sitedomain.com/index.php without changing the site URL please guys?

Hmmm OK,

We are using a static index.html (as you will see yourself from the TINYURL) , a template which we have created in html/css which we wouldn’t personally be able to create in wordpress (we just don’t have the WP savvy to do so) so we use this as our homepage… BUT saying that the WP site we have installed behind this page still uses the index.php… and it all works fine, I just need to use URL’s to point to it or any pages/posts and it’s still there…

We did have to make one change now you mention it to that specific Settings > General > Site Address (URL) setting, so that the SEARCH function would continue to work … so it’s now:

Site Adress (url): https://www.sitedomain.com/index.php rather than just https://www.sitedomain.com (hopefully that makes sense)

The Search in the wordpress was looking for the URL of the domain which is now obviously this index.html not index.php – but even so, we tried changing this back to it’s original URL (ie. sitedomain.com) and it made no difference to YOUR plugin… but it does make a difference to the search, which we also need to work within the WP pages.

Is that any help?

Many thanks for looking into this for us guys! Like we said earlier, it’s a plugin ‘at the top of it’s game’ as far as we’re concerned! Highly rated!

Hope you find out what it is… cheers!

I’ve now deactivated all plugins but Dynamic Widgets, and still it’s not working as it used to…

OK, so in more detail, I have 3 banners (currently – eventually I need to add more, the more brands I promote!)… I’ll call ’em [Banner 1} [Banner 2} [Banner 3} – Hey! I heard that! ??

So for example:
[Banner 1} displayed using dynamic code via a TEXT widget, mean’t to be in the sidebar on the right.

I have tried using the ‘Show widget at this URL? YES” and the “Show widget at this URL? No” options, of course with respective URLs depending on which option is selected…

Using YES seems to ignore the Post/Page exceptions stipulated for {Banner 1} and doesn’t display [Banner 2} or [Banner 3} at all – I mean not even by mistake – just no sign of them!

Using NO option and stipluating the single post I DO want the banner to be displayed on, seems to not display [Banner 1} anywhere, at all… or the other banners for that matter.

It’s sadly just buggered at the moment basically guys! ??

Sorry missed out some info there… Some of these other plugins (above) did update too earlier in the month, this could have affected YOUR plugin back then I guess? But tbh, I think we would have noticed back then in that case!

There was no theme update!

Should I try deactivating/reactivating them in a process of elimination perhaps? Is that what you’re thinking?

I forgot also to mention I even tried a rollback to WP 3.4.2 or what ever that last version was.. we had a backup there, but that didn;t help either… so we reverted to 3.5 ..again!

Cheers!

Thanks for a swift reply! OK so soemone HAS had this issue…

No actually we’re not using any language plugin, I don’t want to mention my URL here it’s not ready to be ‘promoted’ just yet! Here it is embedded in a TINYURL (hope that’s ok, it’s nothing sinister I promise!) https://tinyurl.com/cbpfjop – See the nature of this particular client’s site and the right hand banners etc!

What I can tell you is what else we are using plug-in wise, perhaps this could help you to help us determine what’s up with it?

AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
Akismet
Artiss YouTube Embed
WOW Slider

..and that’s it really guys! Hope we can solve it!

Thanks!