Add Search Box To Search Results Page

[bumblebee]

Hi,

How can I add the search box to the search results page? I'd like to have a search box appear right above the archive-title area where it says "search results for whatever you searched." This way users can easily search again if their original search was unsuccessful. Any ideas or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Holly Bergfors]

Hi there!

You're going to want to go into your Genesis theme folder (parent, not child theme), copy search.php, then paste it into the root of your child theme folder. Open up the child theme copy of search.php in whatever text editor you usually use for code editing then add this line of code within the genesis_do_search_title function ahead of the rest of its contents:

echo get_search_form();

So the function should look like this when you're done:

function genesis_do_search_title() {
	echo get_search_form();
	$title = sprintf( '<div class="archive-description"><h1 class="archive-title">%s %s</h1></div>', apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_text', __( 'Search Results for:', 'genesis' ) ), get_search_query() );
	echo apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_output', $title ) . "\n";

}

Save the file then test to make sure it shows up on your search results page. The styling will probably have to be tweaked a bit, but that should get you what you need.

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[bumblebee]

Perfect! Thank you!

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