Title: Search function behaving badly
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Search function behaving badly

 *  Resolved [deanes02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deanes02/)
 * (@deanes02)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-behaving-badly/)
 * `<?php get_search_form(); ?>`
 * I successfully use this code in [http://tcwa.nutwork.com.au/?s=lorem](http://tcwa.nutwork.com.au/?s=lorem)
   and the return is a list of the page/post TITLES containing “lorem”. This is 
   what I want.
 * I put EXACTLY the same code in here [http://ma.nutwork.com.au/?s=migration+angel](http://ma.nutwork.com.au/?s=migration+angel)
   and the return is THE ENTIRE page/post containing the words “migration angel”.
 * Why oh why is it acting differently? Can I put in any parameters that will make
   the code only return the page/post titles?
 * Please please help! Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [deanes02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deanes02/)
 * (@deanes02)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-behaving-badly/#post-1087909)
 * I just thought that tcwa is on WP2.7… where it works
 * And [http://ma.nutwork.com.au](http://ma.nutwork.com.au) is on WPMU 2.7…
 * Maybe thats why it does work????
 *  Thread Starter [deanes02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deanes02/)
 * (@deanes02)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-behaving-badly/#post-1087918)
 * Sorry being stupid… I copied search.php from the default theme into my theme 
   and everything worked as I wanted.
 * Hopefully this will help someone else…

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 * Last reply from: [deanes02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deanes02/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-behaving-badly/#post-1087918)
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