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09 Aug, 2004

Search results hacks

Posted by: Jennifer In: Bookmarks

Raena has a nice hack(s) to make the search results from WP a little nicer: adding a line that says "Here's your search results" (simple feedback is always nice) – and changing it so that if one result is displayed, it doesn't automatically dump you into the "single post" view.

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1 | serendipity » Serendipity blog

August 10th, 2004 at 3:55 pm

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2 | serendipity » Serendipity blog

August 10th, 2004 at 3:55 pm

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3 | Joen

August 10th, 2004 at 6:12 am

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Hi Scripty, nice site, first post here.

I recently wrote an article on that very topic, entitled "Providing a separate page of Search Results with WordPress". Your search results will look like this.

The main changes to the default search is that it's on an entirely separate page, it's got a friendly "Your search results for < query >" message, and a few other tweaks and tips.

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  • Curt: If anyone comes across this with similar issues I was able to sort out the pagination issues painlessly with easyCommentsPaginate from http://www.mush
  • Christopher: Yeah, it is indeed hard to do. And something remains elusive about why the pagination never worked. I tried everything I could find. Regardless, I
  • Jennifer: Hi Christopher, always hard to bug test stuff like that remotely. Sorry those didn't help. Glad you found a solution though :)

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