Search page not found

Try using <?php echo home_url(); ?> rather than <?php bloginfo('url'); ?>.

get_bloginfo('url') and home_url() output the same url

What values are set for the siteurl and home_url in the wp_options table of the database?

site_url and home (couldn’t find home_url) are both https://localhost:8616 which is probably from the previous developer as I’m using MAMP Pro and have hosts set up (also this is a pull-down of a live site so those are wrong anyways).

I was able to get it working by deleting the Search page and setting the search form action to <?=esc_url( home_url( '/search/' ) )?>. Looks like having the the page and the template named the same was causing some conflicts.

I guess what happened was searchform.php had been created as a template part instead of a full template and search.php was applied to the search page that had been created. Oh the joys of taking over projects from closed dev shops…. Now if I could only figure out why I’m not getting proper search results and pagination.

site_url and home (couldn’t find home_url) are both https://localhost:8616

Is the site still running on that localhost url?

Sorry, it never was… I may have caused some confusion in my original post when I was referring to localhost. I was simply using that because the host part was irrelevant. It was the rest of the url I was having issues with.

Any chance we could see the real site?

https://chfa.sajakfarki.com/

Judging by the returned url in the search page, that looks like a custom search.

https://chfa.sajakfarki.com/search/?s=and&search_mode=site&search_mode_value=site

as opposed to:

https://example.com/?s=and&submit=Search

using WP’s inbuilt search functionality. Is the custom search part of the theme or is it being provided by a plugin?

It’s from the theme from what I can tell. The radio button toggles between built-in content search or querying a remote service.

I don’t think passing the search_mode and search_mode_value params are necessary but I haven’t had the chance to test that yet

given that this is a custom child theme based on commercial framework, have you tried contacting the framework’s vendors about this?

They are no longer in business

Other than hiring someone to go through this theme with you, there isn’t much else I can suggest.