I am running into an issue with my site when trying to use the out of the box search function, only having the searchform.php set to a child page of my Home page.
<form role="search" method="get" action="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/page-two/' ) ); ?>">
<div class="d-flex search-bar">
<input class="search-field" type="search" name="s" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" id="search-input" placeholder="Search...">
<button class="btn search-submit" type="submit">
<i class="fa fa-search" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</button>
</div>
</form>
I've set up my custom filter to limit the search results to all of the pages under my page-two in the site.
function limit_search_to_sections($query) {
if ($query->is_search && !is_admin()) {
// Limit the query to pages
$query->set('post_type', 'page');
// Limit to those pages with a specific parent ID
$query->set('post_parent', 12345); // Replace with your parent page ID
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','limit_search_to_sections');
The issue is that when I attempt to enter a search, no search results are appearing on the page.
In fact, when I output the query, it's showing the query is for is_page and is_singular instead of the is_search.
Now, if I change the action of my searchform.php to <?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?> then the search works, as expected, except it shows up a the home url instead of my child page url.
I do have a search.php template created too.
Is there anyway I can have the search display on the child page?