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For anyone that might happen across this thread… I found the solution to the problem I explained. There was a function in /themes/mytheme/inc/cleanup.php called “nice_search_results” that was attempting to redirect the url to an SEO url. I was able to simply comment out the function, and my search works like a champ now.

Thanks to both of you. I’ll check out the theme and see if I can locate the redirects as you suggested. This is definitely a start.

Do themes typically adhere to a particular structure or convention? I don’t expect the wordpress community to maintain my custom code, but if you could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. For instance, is the search function usually handled with a certain method or located in a certain file? I feel confident that I’ll be able to correct the problem on my own, but I’m not really sure where in the them things like that are handled.

I tried searching with all of my plugins enabled, but using the twenty twelve theme, and everything worked. I’m pretty sure it isn’t the plugins. The theme was custom developed for us. I’ve reached out to the design company that did the work, but they’ve been unwilling to help.

Okay, I got a local copy of my site setup. Per esmi’s suggestion, I disabled all of the plugins and changed the theme to Twenty Twelve. The search works just fine when I do this. I notice that the permalinking structure is different now. Previously, searches followed this structure “mydomain.com/search/myquery”. With the stock theme and no plugins the structure looks like this “mydomain.com/?s=myquery&submit=Search”. Is this something that is defined in my theme? Where should I start looking? It kind of look like POST is being used in place of GET somewhere, but I don’t know.

I’ll setup a local copy and check it out. Good suggestion.

Perfect! Again, thanks for the quick reply and all your help!

That makes sense! Thanks a ton for the help. In theory, I should be able to just stick my sidebars in a class and theme them that way, correct?

Okay,

Here is a link to a page with the default sidebar.

Here is a link to a sample page with a custom sidebar.

Hope that helps.

Here’s a screenshot of the sidebar displayed correctly:
https://i.imgur.com/RDo4znS.png

Here’s a screenshot of the sidebar after it’s swapped:
https://i.imgur.com/5W44CO1.png

If you need actual links to the pages, let me know. I wonder if it has something to do with the template I’m using. Either way, thanks for replying so quickly!