Pointing the Search Widget Results to Archive

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Problem: I would like to include a custom search widget on the single post page, but I would like to show the results in a WordPress Archive page.

Solution: You can split a View's search form and results into two pages, but not a WordPress Archive.

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Last updated by Christian Cox 6 years, 7 months ago.

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June 19, 2018 at 4:09 pm #915400

aleksandrD

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have a custom post type with a single item template and the item list archive.
I do want to have a search widget on the single item page. so far i wasn't able to figure out how to point the search results to the archive. Having a separate page with search results seems redundant. Please advise.

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June 19, 2018 at 10:03 pm #915512

Christian Cox

so far i wasn't able to figure out how to point the search results to the archive.
It's not possible to point a search View to a WordPress Archive in the current system. You can split a View into the search form and the results, but you can't split a WordPress Archive in the same way. One way to get around this is to remove all the contents from between the wpv-loop tags in the WordPress Archive's Loop Output editor, then insert the custom search View's results just before the wpv-loop tags. Basically you're bypassing the WordPress Archive's functionality and replacing it with a View.