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Genesis Search Results Template You Can Fully Customize

This template for Genesis, enables you to customize how the search results are displayed on the search results page. The template includes settings in the code which you can easily modify to fully customize the output on the frontend so its different to the standard search results.

The template enables you to:

  • Set the layout
  • Show or remove the featured image
  • Set the featured image size using any default WordPress > Media or added custom image sizes
  • Align the featured image left, right, center or none
  • Display the full content, set content character limit or display the excerpts
  • Customize the read more link for each entry
  • Set posts per page for each result

Template Installation

  • Upload the search.php template to your child theme folder.
  • Add the Optional Code below to your child themes functions.php file.

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  1. Ok, I copied this code to my search.php file and added the code to the functions.php file – and I am still getting an excerpt for the search results page when I want the full content. When I activate an alternate genesis child theme and use that search.php file I get the full content displayed. So, I know it has something to do with the child theme that I am using – I completely deleted the archive.php file in case there was something in the archive.php file that was over riding the settings from the search.php file – still no luck.

    So, I’m guessing there is something in the functions.php file, but I am completely baffled because nothing fits or makes sense.

    Any other tips?

  2. Hi Brad – I’m using this code to show a search form at the bottom of my search result page, but the search for is covering up the pagination buttons. Any idea how to fix this?

    Here is the code I have at the very bottom of my search.php. removing the search form code, enables my pagination to show just fine. 

    add_action( 'genesis_after_loop', 'custom_display_search_form' );
function custom_display_search_form() {
	echo get_search_form();
}

//* Run the Genesis loop
genesis();

  3. OK, I figured it out that I needed the word “excerpts” rather than “excerpt.”

    Now my question is, how can I add a “read more” link and limit the length of the excerpt shown on the search page? I have it working when I display content using the code above, but when I want to just show excerpts, the read more link doesn’t appear and the excerpts are too long.

  4. Hi Brad – I’m trying to show excerpts on search results. Do I just need to change

    “return ‘content’;” to “return ‘excerpt’;” ?

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