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And this is how the search results look no matter what I do

https://www.gnhousecall.com/v2/?s=house&submit=Search

You can see that they aren’t even following the div structure of the site, they are starting underneath the header!

Here is my search.php file.. It looks the same whether I use this or the default one (without added css code).

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Thanks for the reply esmi!

Yes i’m 1,000,000% sure i’m editing the correct one.
I’ve even deleted all instances or search.php from all of the three themes in the directories (twentyten, twentyeleven & my child theme) just in case and it doesn’t effect the search results at all. I would expect them to not work but this is not the case.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe the Core is set to insert the standard search.php code dynamically in the event of bad code or a missing file but what is happening is that it’s doing that all of the time and never actually reading the phsical search.php in the directory.

Thoughts?

Doh! Should have told you what to search for right as you’ll have no idea otherwise!

Try searching for “house”

Sorry for the multi-posting but I can’t see an “edit” button.

Reading a few other posts and peeps seem to be including links so here is mine so you can see what’s going on.

It’s still a work in progress so ignore the shabbyness ??

https://www.gnhousecall.com/v2/archive/search/

If you perform a search you’ll see the problem that i’m having.

Well I’m a newbie to WP (1 week) but I would imagine that there will be database problems if you do it like this. I could be wrong though?

I guess the problem would arise like so…

1) XYZ is a fully working WP install

2) XYZNEW is a fully working WP install

3) When you move the files from XYZNEW into the XYZ folder the database will still be configured for the New install so nothing will work, you won’t even be able to login the admin section.

I guess you could hardcode the DB settings into the config file and re-upload it via FTP, that should work in theory, but maybe somebody else can shed any light on any other problems that may occur..

Sorry I can’t help anymore, still learning this myself and haven’t had to do anything like this yet.