I’m new to working in WordPress so I’ll have to apologize in advance if this is a silly question. I’m trying to modify the page that displays the search results. It is currently displaying as single column, full width, and I want to change it so that it displays the search results with two columns. I’ve tried researching this and I gather that I need to modify some sort of template file, but I looked at the templates and all I saw was a searchform.php file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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The search results page use the _index.php template located on the framework > views > global folder. Regretfully, this particular customization request is outside the scope of our support as this is not related to an issue with the theme and instead has to do with your customization of it. As such, you will need to investigate this particular issue on your own or look to a service such as Microlancer or Tweaky for assistance should you not feel comfortable making these changes yourself. If you have any further questions about the theme, we are more than happy to provide you with assistance on these inquiries.

Thank you for your understanding.

I am looking for the same thing, however I can code a bit but I have a question about the “_index.php” file. I see it loops through with:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
    <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
      <?php x_get_view( x_get_stack(), 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
  <?php else : ?>
    <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_content-none' ); ?>
  <?php endif; ?>

And if there isn’t any content, it uses the _content-none file in the Views->Global. My question is if it loops through and finds posts during a search query, where & what file is being used for the output of the search results? i.e. If I wanted to change the HTML structure of what is being outputted? Couldn’t I just create my own search.php file and drop that in the theme directory and and it would use that to output the search results?

Thanks.

It’s using the exact same templates that it would use to output the posts. get_post_format() finds out what format is being used, then that template is rendered.

You could modify search.php, but I wouldn’t advise this as you’d still need the code to build the page, and query for results.

What are you trying to change? There are better ways to go about it.

For example, if you want to change the post meta, you could make a copy of the x_integrity_entry_meta function in functions.php of your child theme. Then you could use is_search() to check if the search page is being displayed.

If you let us know what you’re looking to change, we might me able to give you a better idea of how to get started.

That being said, I am Hijacking the site-wide search and using Ultimate WPQSF has my search forms to search my Custom Post Types, it is probably not the best route but I am just a beginner at PHP.

So I moved the search loop from _index.php to wp-search.php and customized my search results as needed with my own loop for searching my Pod.

Not crazy about hacking apart the theme but this is working for now. If you have suggestions to do it differently I am all ears.

Thanks.

That works, it just might be difficult to maintain on updates. I’m still not sure I understand the changes you need to make. What are the specific HTML changes that need to happen? Knowing more about what the end result should be will help us recommend something.

My question is: is there a place I can make this choice? Even the coding itself is out of the scope of your support, could you please tell us which file or files we should look into and code in?

Thanks,

The search result is using the same template as blog home page template, the index.php. Although, you can see different looks because display is controlled per template part.

For example, the blog page and search page uses the same landmark template, but inside the landmark template there is a logic of which to show if the caller is search page or not.

In short, all files connected to index.php is related to search view too. You may duplicate index.php and its sub template parts to create dedicated template for search result.

This is not related to X theme, but may explain it much further http://themeshaper.com/2012/11/06/the-wordpress-theme-search-template-and-page-template/ It’s common standard on all theme.

And check this http://theme.co/x/member/kb/customization-best-practices/ how template parts can be called from your own search template.

Cheers!