How to customize search.php output

[timburkart]

Hi,

I guess I'm still a Genesis newbie because I am baffled. I would like to customize the search results but do not know where to begin. Search.php does not help. I'm looking for some html so that I can change the h2 tag with something smaller, perhaps an h4 or h5. I'm assuming that I have to write some php and add it to the child theme functions.php but I simply don't know where to begin.

I would appreciate any guidance you can provide.

Thank you!

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[Victor Font]

Search.php is the search results page template. Copy it from the Genesis directory into your child theme directory.

The title is HTML is found in this code:

$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() );

See the H1 in that code? That's the title tag. OF course, removing the H1 and replacing it with something else is going to break SEO. Every page needs to have one H1 tag for SEO. If you want the H1 to be smaller, just change the associated CSS to use a smaller font size. This way you won't hurt your SEO and still achieve the desired result.

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Victor
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[timburkart]

Hello Victor,
Thank you for your reply. However I guess I wasn't clear about what I want to customize. I don't want to replace the h1 tag of the page title but rather the h2 tag of each of the result items. I want to change the format altogether but don't know where to look. I am assuming this is part of a loop that displays the results of the search request.

Thank you.

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