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Pretty Url in WordPress Search Result
In WordPress, the search url is not pretty, I mean it’s not search engine friendly (uses query string), it looks something like http://example.com?s=foo and it’s doesn’t look very professional. So, if you want to change the url to something like http://example.com/search/foo then it’s possible and very easy, just 2 steps.
Step 1 :
Create a file called search.php which contains following code
1 2 3 | <?php header('Location: http://www.example.com/search/' . $_GET['s']); ?> |
Now put the file in the root of your WordPress install.
Step 2 :
Alter the action attribute of the search form to <?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/search.php, i.e.
1 2 3 4 | <form method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/search.php"> <input type="text" size="16" name="s" /> <input type="submit" value="search" name="submit" /> </form> |
That’s it. Now the search url will look really pretty something like https://heera.it/search/foo, which looks professional and search engine friendly too, isn’t it very simple ? I think it is.
