Line 500 of your style.css reads: .page-template-template-white-rev-php .custom-search .menu-search-form{ background:#eef4f9; -moz-box-shadow:none; -webkit-box-shadow:none; box-shadow:none; } Just remove the background line here to fix it.
A simple search in codex shows there are some parameters you can set to exclude some categories for example : <?php $args = array( ‘show_option_all’ => ”, ‘show_option_none’ => ”, ‘orderby’ => ‘ID’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘show_count’ => 0, ‘hide_empty’ => 1, ‘child_of’ => 0, ‘exclude’ => ”, ‘echo’ => 1, ‘selected’ => 0, ‘hierarchical’ … Read more
You can either change the code of your 404.php to conditionally show other stuff with is_search() { … } or you can use the search.php Template.
Well I am asuming you want to amend the <title> tag? Add this in functions.php add_filter(‘wp_title’, ‘my_custom_page_title’); function my_custom_page_title($title) { global $s; if( isset($_REQUEST[‘author_name’]) && is_search() ) { $title=”Search Results for “.$s.’ from author ‘.$_REQUEST[‘author_name’]; } return $title; } If $s returns blank replace that with $_REQUEST[‘s’]
Help sorting by Meta Key value
how to sort results by last day update at search result in plugin installer?
Extend WordPress Search
Cannot get query var ‘post_type’ to work
You might try to add a posts_where filter in your pre_get_posts hook: function my_pre_get_posts( $q ){ if( $q->is_main_query() ) add_filter( ‘posts_where’, ‘my_posts_where’ ); return $q; } ! is_admin() && add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_pre_get_posts’ ); where function my_posts_where( $where ){ // your custom replacements on the $where string // … // remove the filter remove_filter( current_filter() , … Read more
Widget content is stored in the $wpdb->options table as serialized data. You can search that with SQL because to SQL serialized data is just a string. SELECT option_value FROM {$wpdb->options} WHERE meta_value LIKE “something” But… The table is not indexed for that kind of search Searching serialized data is dicey anyway And I have no … Read more