Comments on: Understanding and Fixing WordPress Search

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:56:55 +0000

Contact the author of your Theme or the WordPress Support forum. The search page is generated by default in WordPress. No special instructions are necessary. If the author has done something different from normal, please contact them as they must have a reason or ask in the WordPress Support Forum for assistance as someone may be familiar with that Theme. Be sure and name it in the title of your question.

Changing the core Theme makes updating the Theme difficult, as you may have to recreate what you did. Having the Theme author fix it is the best path. Thanks.

By: sorbsaha

sorbsaha — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:33:30 +0000

Hello There!
My Theme is having search.php code linking from index.php by ‘if’ condition for search, category, tag etc. But when i am searching anything, it is showing random posts rather then the related search results.
Can you provide me the default code to insert at search.php to unlink that main index and create related search results ?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:13:42 +0000

This is an old post and WordPress has fixed their search extensively. If you would like to hire me for testing your site, please use my contact form for such a request. I highly recommend you seek help on the WordPress Support Forum first. Without more specific information, I and others could not help you as the search could be broken within the Theme, with some Plugin that interferes with the search functionality, or your site may not be properly installed. It is rare for search to not work. Good luck with it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:27:00 +0000

Is there an issue with the .htaccess or indexing? Im not sure where I went wrong here.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:24:11 +0000

I reloaded theme with no luck.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:17:25 +0000

Hey, My search function displays “No relevant search results found” on every query. Not too sure how to go about fixing this issue. If you could give a look and see what you think the problem is I would greatly appreciate it.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:47:38 +0000

Then this is an odd article for you to land on. I recommend you start with New To WordPress - Where to Start from the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress.

By: Barb Ledwon

Barb Ledwon — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:05:45 +0000

I am just starting a web page and know nothing of what Word Press is let alone setting up a web page

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:28:12 +0000

Hey Ray Do, Just curious how that project turned out (or is turning out)? I’m working on a similar project and I’ve been crash learning WP as well. I’d love to bounce some ideas off you.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:55:25 +0000

I totally understand. Douglas and Mikko are great and will probably help you plenty. Good luck with it and know that you are not alone, so look for others who’ve solved this same issue and learn from them. They are the ones who invented the wheels already.