Search Results/Sitewide Editing
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On my site, i have a search box in the header of each page.
I want to know, is there a way i can make one edit to the search resutls display and make it take effect sitewide, or is my only option to go through the individual pages, and change each one manually?
I want to know, is there a way i can make one edit to the search resutls display and make it take effect sitewide, or is my only option to go through the individual pages, and change each one manually?
you could use page defaults
What I do is have the search box show search results on another page. All search boxes post to that other page and if I want to style the results I only have to style that one results page.
If you still want to have search results show up on the page that the search was entered (which honestly is kind of non-standard and might confuse people, depending on the design of your site), then you could just create the search block in the global scrapbook (Dashboard -> Scrapbook), then paste that scrapbook block onto the pages it should appear on, or if it appears on every page you could use Page Defaults or even hard-code it into your theme templates like this:
If you still want to have search results show up on the page that the search was entered (which honestly is kind of non-standard and might confuse people, depending on the design of your site), then you could just create the search block in the global scrapbook (Dashboard -> Scrapbook), then paste that scrapbook block onto the pages it should appear on, or if it appears on every page you could use Page Defaults or even hard-code it into your theme templates like this:
<?php Block::getByName('Name You Gave The Search Box Block In Your Global Scrapbook')->display(); ?>
