Adding a search to custom theme

  • Loki180

    (@loki180)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello WordPress!

    I am in a little bit of a situation, I need to be able to add a working search bar to my custom theme.

    The wordpress codex was not much help, most of the time I can get the search bar to show using the widget but it will not display any content it finds. I can not find anywhere to help set up a search.php or searchpage.php.

    I am not sure if it would be a good idea to pull apart a wordpress made theme to get the search functionality out of it?

    Any help would be a massive help,

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter Loki180

    (@loki180)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi guys,

    So I have been going through the twenttyTifteen theme pulling out all of the search code.

    So far i have the search bar displayed from the widgets, but once I type anything in it goes to another page saying
    Search Results For: xxxx

    But only if I have searched for something that is on the site, if I searched for something thats not on the site then the page is just blank.

    I have so far
    page.php
    content-search.php
    search.php
    content.php
    single.php
    content-page.php

    all from the theme into my own theme, but with no victory.

    I have added this to the functions.php to make widgets work

    function twentyfifteen_widgets_init() {
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => __( 'Widget Area', 'twentyfifteen' ),
		'id'            => 'sidebar-1',
		'description'   => __( 'Add widgets here to appear in your sidebar.', 'twentyfifteen' ),
		'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget'  => '</aside>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfifteen_widgets_init' );

    I am unsure on if the functions.php needs anything else for the search to work?

    Thread Starter Loki180

    (@loki180)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry for all these posts guys, trying to update as I go along. It is working much better now, just one issue with the single.php file

    Once a user has searched for a word or phrase it spits out a list of the things it has found, like expected, but once a user clicks on the one they are looking for nothing is displayed other than the title

    the fault is with the single.php but i am not sure why it is not displaying.

    <?php

get_header(); ?>

	<div id="primary" class="content-area">
		<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
			<p>This is single.php</p>
				<h3><a href='<?php the_permalink(); ?>'><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
				<p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
		<hr>
		</main><!-- .site-main -->
	</div><!-- .content-area -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

    That is the single.php is but the_content(); is not showing up

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