Search results bug

Hi team, in the header settings > Search, I have selected to show results from All post types. If I type something in my search form and click on View all results, instead of a normal search results page it opens my blog layout. Blog layout conditions are correct. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hello,

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Hello,

I’ve checked your site, and the issue isn’t with the search itself. Your search results page is working correctly and returning the proper search results. The reason you see the “Blog” title is because your custom Blog Archive layout is being applied to the search results page as well.

Inside your Blog layout, you have added a custom heading with the title “Blog,” so that same heading appears on the search results page.

If you disable the custom layout then you will see the exact search result page.

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Hello, thanks for giving it a look. I am a bit confused, because my layout is specifically for the Blog archive. Attached is a screenshot of my settings. What is the reason the same look is used for the search results as well? Obviously we can’t stop using the blog layout (if we didn’t need it, we wouldn’t have used it in the first place). So what can be the solution? Thank you in advance!

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Hello,

When you set the search form to “All post types,” the search results page includes results from the Blog posts post type as well. Because of that, WordPress treats the search results page as a post-type archive for “post,” and WoodMart automatically applies your Blog Archive layout to it.

That’s why your Blog layout is showing on the search results page.

When you created a new layout specifically for the Search Results and set the search post type to the “Blog”, it worked correctly because it always applied the most specific condition first.

Edit the search widget and choose the post type as blog and create a new layout only for blog posts then the new search result page layout will work. This is the way it works.

For your reference, I have made a new layout (Blog layout for search results) and set it in draft on your site in the layout section.

Best Regards,

Hello! Thank you. But “all post types” means I’d like for other results such as pages and portfolio items to appear in the search. In that case it won’t work for me to create a separate layout for blog, because I need results not only from the blog. Can I create a separate layout for search results or what is the best way to proceed?

Hello,

When the search widget is set to “All post types,” WordPress automatically treats the search results page as a blog archive because the “post” post type is part of the results. That is why the Blog Archive layout always overrides your custom Search Results layout — this is default WordPress behavior.

At the moment, WoodMart applies layouts in this priority: Specific post-type archive > Blog archive > Search layout, So if “post” is included in the search query, the Blog layout takes priority.

If you want to display results from pages + portfolio + posts, but still use your own Search Results layout, you need to :

Create a custom layout for Blog Archive that looks the same as your Search Results layout.

This way, even when the Blog Archive layout takes priority, it will display exactly what you want.

Best Regards,

Thanks for the explanation! I see what you mean. So basically the only solution is to create a design that will work for both blog posts and search results, as it’s not possible to have a different page style?
As an alternative, is it possible to hide the “Show more results” option from the bottom of the search results?

Hello,

Try to add the following custom css code in Theme Settings > Custom CSS:

.search-results .wd-pagination{
display: none;
}

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Thank you, I checked but sadly this doesn’t work. I even tried adding “important”. Can you please recheck?

Hello,

I have added the Custom CSS on your site and it is working fine.

See Screenshot for clarification: https://postimg.cc/LY3CDBJB

Check back your site and check the issue after completely clearing the cache.

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Hello, thanks for getting back. Looks like there has been some confusion, I was referring to this option:

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Hello,

Try to add the following custom css code in Theme Settings > Custom CSS:

.wd-dropdown-results .wd-all-results {
    display: none;
}

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