WordPress users know it: Search is definitely one of WordPress weak point. Today, let’s see how to get the number of results the search returned, and display it (proudly!) on our blog.
Open your search template file, search.php. In it, search for the following:
<h2 class="pagetitle">Search Results</h2>
Now replace this with:
<h2 class="pagetitle">Search Results for <?php /* Search Count */ $allsearch = &new WP_Query("s=$s&showposts=-1"); $key = wp_specialchars($s, 1); $count = $allsearch->post_count; _e(''); _e('<span class="search-terms">'); echo $key; _e('</span>'); _e(' — '); echo $count . ' '; _e('articles'); wp_reset_query(); ?></h2>
That's all, you're done!
Credits goes to ProBlogDesign for this awesome WordPress recipe!
By the way, I'm going to publish a big article of 10 awesome WordPress hacks on my other blog Cats Who Code tomorrow. Be sure to suscribe to our RSS feed so you're gonna miss it!
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16 Responses
Thanks for the link back Jean-Baptiste!
echo $wp_query->found_posts;That’s all for the search result.
Thanks. There are some problems with the code box in IE6, in Mozilla works fine.
Great, thank you for this easy fix!
That’s a good start, but it needs code to address this sort of search result:
Search for “convoluted PHP” found 1 articles
great idea. thanks for it
Like frank already stated (2nd comment) this single line ‘echo $wp_query->found_posts;’ will give the number of posts returned for search, tags and archives…
Great! Many thanks!
I agree search is definitely one of Wordpress’s strong points. I never thought about adding the number of results to the search page, but since you have offered such a simple addition, I went ahead and added it. Hope my users find it useful.
I don’t like it: you effectively relaunch the same sql search query again, instead of fetching the count from the current (already existing) resultset.
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