Search Box and Results are not displaying on page.

I am not sure what is your problem.

The auto-created landing page is designed as a target for your widget-based search.
Therefor it uses the display shortcode for displaying the search result.
This works fine on your listed page above.

By default, the landing page does not contain a searchbox shortcode.
You can use the search widget in your sidebar for a new search.
However, you are free to edit the landing page as you like.
You can e.g. include a searchbox shortcode at a position of your choice.

Oh, I see. Good to know. Silly me. So that brings up another question. How to put the search box on a page?

You will find a full description of all parameters and various examples for the searchbox shortcode on my plugin homepage smart image search.

OK, That’s helpful. I have the search field working. Now, how to do this:

1. Send the results to your auto-generated search results page, and/or
2. Limit the results to displaying only image_title, description, and gallery title?

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Dan Bollinger.

Dan Bollinger how did you get this to work please im having the same issues
thanks

I could not. I did a work around. On my home page I put a hyperlink to my main products page which displays my only album. They can browse the galleries, or use the NGG search widget on the sidebar. I still hope to see this integrated with the WP search feature.

Using the search shortcode you can send the result to any page, just use the target-parameter to address the wanted url (see parameter description.

To organize the result list, you can use any native NextGEN gallery display including suitable templates (see ngg now accepts NextGEN gallery parameters.

i got it sorted thanks i added 2 search boxes 1 on the gallery page and one on side bar
the reason it didnt show up straight away was the cached files need little few mins to refresh and cleared my pc cache