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How To Make The WordPress Search URL Pretty

By Jeffro on September 6, 2011

Frank from WPEngineer explains how to make pretty URLs for the WordPress search function. Also take a look in the comments on the post as Chuck Reynolds provides a snippet of code you can place in your htaccess file to accomplish the same thing.

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3 responses to “How To Make The WordPress Search URL Pretty”

  1. Otto
    Otto
    September 6, 2011 at 8:01 PM | |

    Here’s a better way:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} s=(.*)
    RewriteRule ^$ /search/%1? [R,L]

    That will do more what people are expecting, I think.

  2. Tom J Nowell
    Tom J Nowell
    September 7, 2011 at 6:53 AM | |

    Or with WordPress Rewrite Rules in functions.php :

    function feed_dir_rewrite( $wp_rewrite ) {
    $feed_rules = array( 'search/(.+)' => 'index.php?s=' . $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1));
    $wp_rewrite->rules = $feed_rules + $wp_rewrite->rules;
}
add_filter( 'generate_rewrite_rules', 'feed_dir_rewrite' );
  3. Danny Lee
    Danny Lee
    September 7, 2011 at 10:01 AM | |

    Another quality find – thank you for bringing this to my attention