No search results page

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#1

Hi, I’m wondering how I change the page that displays when no results are found when doing a search. I would like to display this page http://wildernesstraveller.com/error404/ which is my standard 404 page.

Many thanks
James

#2

Also on my blog posts do you know how I can move the meta data below the title (in the same white box)?

Thanks
James

#3

Hi There,

Thank you for writing in, please navigate to Pro > Overview and install the Custom 404 extension.

Then on Pro > Custom 404 set your http://wildernesstraveller.com/error404/ page as your 404 page.

Regarding the blog posts, regretfully your posts page template is modified and we can not provide support for customization.

Cheers!

#4

Hi, I have tried to use that plugin but I get a fatal error when I try to activate it:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[’ in /var/sites/w/wildernesstraveller.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tco-custom-404/tco-custom-404.php on line 107

No problem regarding the page template.

Thanks
James

#5

Looks like it was my PHP version that needed updating. I got the plugin working but it still shows the standard page when I do a search that yields no results.

#6

Hi there,

Please add this code to your child theme’s functions.php

add_action('init', 'redirect_if_search_is_empty', 999999999);

function redirect_if_search_is_empty () {

global $wp_query;

if ( $wp_query->is_search() && $wp_query->found_posts <=0 ) {

wp_redirect( 'http://wildernesstraveller.com/error404/' );
exit;

}

}

This should redirect your empty search page to your 404 page.

Thanks!

#8

Hi,

Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks

#9

Hi, I have tried adding that code but it hasn’t made any difference unfortunately.

#10

Hi again,

You should try replacing the previous code with this:

function redirect_if_search_is_empty($wp_query) {
	global $wp_query;
	if ( $wp_query->is_search() && $wp_query->found_posts <=0 ) {
		wp_redirect( 'http://wildernesstraveller.com/error404/' );
		exit;
	}
}
add_action('parse_query', 'redirect_if_search_is_empty');

Let us know how this goes!