Display Search Term and Result Count in WordPress
In this tutorial we will share how you can add a simple function on your search page which will display the search term and the number of results. This feature was a special request by one of our user via email. If you want us to cover a topic, then feel free to make a suggestion.
Open your search.php file in your template folder and add the following code:
<h2 class="pagetitle">Search Result 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>
The code above will display something like this:
Search Result for twitter — 15 articles
This is just one of the cool things that you can do for your Search Page when customizing it.
Source: Michael Martin
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I really don’t give my on page search enough thought. Something like this is great because it makes the page more personalised.
Good idea. Bad execution.
Why in the world would you want to translate a span tag???
And my favorite:
_e('');Huh??Why would you want to query the same search twice?
Doesn’t make sense at all.
But I don’t want to hate, this is how it should be done (in my humble opinion):
post_count); ?>
So the code is right or not?
I see Konstantin has some point about the query, but the comments “ate” the results!
This code is correct. It works, the only issue he is pointing out is that it can be done differently as well. We have used this code on a client’s website and it works.
Search results are a personal thing from a user so it’s good if they are given lots of info for them.