The URL that shows when doing a search from within WordPress is quite long and human unreadable to some extent. This can be changed to a simpler format.
https://www.1smartchicken.com/?s=php+template
PHP
Place the following code anywhere in your theme’s functions.php document.
// better search url
function custom_search_url() {
if ( is_search() && ! empty( $_GET['s'] ) ) {
wp_redirect( home_url( "/search/" ) . urlencode( get_query_var( 's' ) ) );
exit();
}
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'custom_search_url' );
This will change the URL to look something like this (we searched for php and template).
https://www.1smartchicken.com/search/php+template
We’d like to acknowledge that we learned a great deal of our coding from W3Schools and TutorialsPoint, borrowing heavily from their teaching process and excellent code examples. We highly recommend both sites to deepen your experience, and further your coding journey. We’re just hitting the basics here at 1SMARTchicken.
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- All modifications to a theme or plugin should be made by creating a child theme and placing the changes there; changes made to the parent theme will be overwritten the next time it updates
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