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Clean Permalinks for Search Results

Here is a little tip to force WordPress to use clean permalinks for search results. Despite using pretty permalinks you may have noticed WordPress returns search results as yoursite.com/?s=SEARCHTERMS instead of yoursite.com/search/SEARCHTERMS. I'll show you how to achieve the latter.

First of all, create a new file called search.php which contains the following,

<?php header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/search/' . $_GET['s']); ?>

Upload that file to root. Next, look in your theme's folder for the searchform. Change the action to,

action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/search.php"

All done. Test it out for yourself. Type the term WordPress in the search engine and look at the URL.

Further reading:

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Advanced_Topics

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