Altering Search Form

  • How do you alter search results? My theme wants it paginated. I would really prefer it all came in as a list

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  • You can add a filter to your functions.php file that sets parameters before posts are requested from the database. However, setting posts to -1 is generally not a good idea, especially for search for results. If you have a significant amount of posts, you could crash your site. Ideally you should set a high number (500?) and paginate from there.

    You can read more about that here:
    https://10up.github.io/Engineering-Best-Practices/php/#performance

    If you’re using a free or purchased theme, make sure you create a child theme.

    function search_filter($query) {

     // make sure we're not on the admin and we are in the main query
     if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
         // only set the post parameter if we're searching for posts
         if ($query->is_search) {
             $query->set('posts_per_page', -1);
         }
     }
}

add_action('pre_get_posts','search_filter');
    Thread Starter wrdslngr

    (@wrdslngr)

    Thanks. I’ll so some research.

    If you want to see what it does, go to https://www.chattahoocheetech.edu and run a search.

    Thanks!

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