Use the_post_thumbnail. For example: <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/250403/<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>” > <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?> </a> <?php endif; ?>
limit the number of searches
Try using urldecode on search string and your operations on decoded string. Also check if you are using any other encoding, utf-8, utf-16…..
Use action = ‘website/search’ to get the query appended… Ideally your form would look like this… <form action=”website/search”> <input type=”text” name=”filter” /> <input type=”submit”> </form> Then you can grab filter to interact with WordPress Query and display result. Hope this helps.
You would need to query the WordPress site from your form using the REST API.
I think you can do some changes in the search form so it submits to another page url instead of home. Something like http://baseurl/search-results/?search=foo Where search-results will be the slug of a page with your page template.
It turns out it was the WPML redirection that is removing the spaces from my input. To fix it, I’ve added the language code in the form action. <form action=”/<?php echo ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE; ?>/” method=”get” id=”searchform”>
Doesn’t look like this is the fault of the template. There could be another plugin trying to filter things. Also please try https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/
You can use custom template for search page: <?php get_header(); ?> <section id=”primary” class=”content-area”> <div id=”content” class=”site-content” role=”main”> <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?> <header class=”page-header”> <h1 class=”page-title”><?php printf( __( ‘Search Results for: %s’, ‘shape’ ), ‘<span>’ . get_search_query() . ‘</span>’ ); ?></h1> </header><!– .page-header –> <?php shape_content_nav( ‘nav-above’ ); ?> <?php /* Start … Read more
You can use the_search_query() to look at the last search query run by WordPress. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_search_query