How to Easily Customize the WordPress Search Results Page
There are good arguments to customize many parts of WordPress — but the search results page? What reason could there possibly be to make changes to that? How could this page be any different? The truth is, the WordPress search results page isn’t natively very interesting. This gives you the chance to highlight the articles you want more eyes on and make the page a little more useful. I hereby, cordially, invite you to find out along with me. Just imagine, at the end of this post, we could both be smarter than we were before. Are you in? Image source: Agence Olloweb/Unsplash Why Customize WordPress’ Search Results? Alright, let’s start off with reasons why you should consider making changes to your site’s search results page and what things you might customize. The Purpose of the Search Results Page First, let’s get clear about what the function of the search results page is. As you can probably guess, it is supposed to help users find content they are looking for. To that end, they can enter a search term into the search field (that’s hopefully present on your site — more on that below). WordPress will then serve up the…
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