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Well the searching within a custom post type is relatively easy.

I just used a code similar to the following code for my news post type (replace ‘news’ with the name of you custom post type:

function search_filter() {
global $blog_id;
	if (is_post_type_archive ( 'news' ) || is_singular( 'news' )) {?>
	<li class="nav_search"><form method="get" class="search_form" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
		<p>
			<input class="text_input" type="text" value="" name="s" id="s"/>
			<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="news" />
		</p>
	</form></li>
	<?php }
}
add_action('$tag','search_filter');

For the first part of my original question I believe there are a couple of ways to do this. Firstly you could use custom rewrite rules to rewrite the urls once they’ve been searched for – switching them from domain.com/?TERM=term1 to domain.com/taxonomyname/term1 (I’m not too familiar with rewrite rules I’m afraid).

The second option is a little easier and would be to create the custom taxonomy with the archive slug as you would like them – domain.com/taxonomyname/term1 (set the slug to ‘taxonomyname’ when creating the taxonomy). Now when you search using the drop down, WordPress should automatically rewrite the urls to domain.com/taxonomyname/term1.

Hope this helps

Also looking for this if anyone has found a solution?

Thanks

Just realized that the search result for the admin bar search is slightly different than the widget search if this helps to decipher the issue at all:

Admin Bar search example: (sub site/blog on network is called UK)
Page 1 example – https://domain.com/uk?s=test
Page 2 example (not working) – https://domain.com/uk/uk/page/2/?s=test

Widget search example:
Page 1 example – https://domain.com/uk/?s=test
Page 2 example (not working) – https://domain.com/uk/page/2/?s=test

I’m also having this exact problem with pagination not working for searches made using the admin bar on a multisite subfolder setup.

I have one network using subdomains and the admin bar search and pagination work fine, but on a new network I am setting up I am using subfolders and although page one of the search results returns the correct results, the pagination for pages 2 onwards keep duplicating the blog URL as per the example given above.

If I add a search box widget the search results and pagination work fine.

Has anybody managed to find a solution to this?

Thanks Milan – this looks absolutely perfect for what I need!

Hi Milan,

Sounds like the Pro version should do what I need, but I can’t really see on the features page you provided – the small screenshot looks like the lite version.

Would you be able to provide a screenshot of the “Terms List” widget options/settings on the Pro version please?

Thanks.

Hi c3mdigital,

Second option actually appears to be working…I’ve basically set the main install to a new user chown -R newuser:newuser and then chowned the uploads and blogs.dir folders to www-data:www-data

Once I’ve figured everything out I’m going to completely reinstall and upgrade onto debian 6 too as suggested – thanks for the link to that tutorial though – might come in handy as my host doesn’t offer debian 6 yet! ??

Thanks both for your replies.

So really i’m better with one of the following 2 options:

1 – Leaving the entire WordPress install as chown www-data:www-data

Or

2 – Creating a new user in debian (rob) and setting this user as owner for the wordpress folder. Then chown the uploads, blogs.dir, themes, and plugins folders to www-data:www-data (using chown www-data:www-data for the entire installation only when upgrading)

Which one of these would be most suitable?

Thanks
Rob