Search Results & 404 Pages

[Amir_Caspi]

Hi,

Search Results:

• How can I remove the author and date from the results?
• How can we fix the overflowing text?

Summary

http://lumenis6.onpressidium.com/?s=versapulse

404 Page:

How can we change the text, add logo, remove the “assign menu”, remove the plus sign at the top right?

Summary

Thanks!

[mldarshana]

Hi Amir,

Thanks for writing in! To customize search results, try adding the following CSS rules into your X -> Theme Options -> CSS area.

.search-results .p-meta {
    display: none;
}
.search-results .x-main .hentry .entry-content {
    max-width: 100%;
}

To customize 404 page, please utilize our Custom 404 extension. You can refer to our knowledge base article here (https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/extension-custom-404/80).

Thanks!

[Amir_Caspi]

Thanks, that did solve the issues I described before with the search results. I will try the extension of 404.
Three more things with the search results:

Can we exclude pages/posts from the search results?

Why HTML and scripts appear in the page preview at the search results? This is very not user friendly.

Summary

https://lumenis-staging.com/?s=M22

When no search results exist, a header/footer less page appears, how can we change that to be with header and footer as a search results page with existing results?

Summary

http://lumenis6.onpressidium.com/?s=dsfsdfsdf

[rad]

Hi @Amir.Caspi

Searches are results from pages and posts, hiding them will make the search of no use. I recommend adding excerpts manually to all your posts. Please check this https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/excerpt/

The text excerpt that you’ll add will replace that code content.

As the question why it appears, it’s because of Wordpress handles the excerpt. It will stripped out HTML , shortcodes, and other codes to generate a plain text excerpt. But on this case, it first strips the <script></script> which leaves the code as normal text content. Remember, the code is a code if it’s within <script></script>, without it, it’s just a plain text that just looks like a code.

As for the empty result, please add this CSS as well.

.search-no-results .x-main.full {
    min-height: 501px;
}

Thanks!

[Amir_Caspi]

1. I meant how to hide specific pages/post from search results (i.e. thank you pages)

2. I don’t see how this CSS will solve the issue that whenever someone searches a phrase that returns no result the following page will appear instead of regular looking page:

Summary

https://lumenis-staging.com/?s=dsfdsf

Why it is different from any other regular page with header and footer?
Thanks.

[mldarshana]

Hi Amir,

If you mark your posts or pages as private on the quick edit view, those will not show in your search results.

Otherwise you can try a 3rd party plugin like Search Exclude (https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-exclude/) though we cannot guarantee the compatibility.

With regard to search header issue, set your header as global and re-test your issue.

Thanks!

[Amir_Caspi]

Hi , I made it global and now it added breadcrumbs to the homepage where I definitely don’t need breadcrumbs.

Summary

https://lumenis-staging.com/

[mldarshana]

Hi Amir,

You can add a class to your header bar residing your breadcrumbs. For example: my-custom-breadcrumb and then you can add the following CSS rule into your custom CSS area to hide it on homepage.

.home .my-custom-breadcrumb {
  display:none;
}

Hope that helps.

[Amir_Caspi]

There is no such bar residing the breadcrumbs, thats the problem.
I know I can intentionally add breadcrumbs in the header builder but I didn’t add it in this specific header. Making it global header added the breadcrumbs.

Removing things with through style is always an option but I would like to solve this issue from the source rather than masking it with CSS.
Thanks.

[nabeel]

Hi again,

I checked your site and it seems like the breadcrumbs is the part of your header. Please re-check your header and there should be breadcrumbs element present in most probably the fourth bar.

One simple way is to use different header (without a breadcrumb element) on your homepage and make the other header (having a breadcrumb element) a global header.

Hope this helps!