mack2d2

bump.

maybe I can make different wordpress installs for each theme… but have each wordpress install pull content from the same database? am I reaching here? I really want to be able to do this, but the more research I do, the more it seems to not be possible.

I just completely rebuilt the template and it seems to have solved whatever the problem was. Thank you to those who tried to help, I appreciate it.

I followed a random tutorial when I was learning to make use of the search in wordpress… and I’m learning now that my choice of tutorials may have been a mistake. I can’t even seem to find said tutorial now. I’m not actually using the https:// so much as a php call that the tutorial said should be there that calls for the https:// address…

php call I’m using is
<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>

That should lead to the same index.php file anyways shouldn’t it? I plugged in what you suggested… replacing that php call with the /index.php and the results were the same.

So far I’ve tried:
Copying the search loop from the classic theme template into my own, since it works in the classic template I expected it to work in mine… no luck, same strange results.

Tried replacing the php call used in the search loop <?php bloginfo('home'); ?> with /index.php and the results were the same.

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Current chunk of html/php I am using for the search field that works fine when you search for something like “Dragon”, but fails in epic fashion if you search for something used more often such as “local”:

<form id="searchform" method="get" action="/index.php">
		<div>
		<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /><br />
		<input type="submit" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Search'); ?>" />
		</div>
		</form>

No luck… anyone have any other ideas or see anything suspicious in the code?

oh, and if there is in fact no results… it does give a message signifying there wasn’t any results to display. The problem seems to be when there are too many results, it just displays the background image and nothing else. Not even the sidebar navigation.

Haven’t copied the loop to mine, but I’ve went over the files side by side and fail to see any difference in the loop. Hoping someone happens to look at the code and notice something that screams “error” before I just blindly solve it by copying their loop in. Will try that later tonight if no one is able to spot a particular mistake in my source code…. I will also try to remember to update this post with whatever the outcome is.

The need for “search everything” plug-in doesn’t resolve the issue of the General category displaying a completely blank page when clicked on from the side bar… and it also doesn’t explain why the search would return a completely blank page (except for the background image).

Thank for your help, I will definitely take a good look at the Search Everything plug-in… as well as fix the post title section of the code.

Anyone have any insight as to what may be causing the problem? still unresolved.