Paginated search results
The problem
Search results only return as many as set in WordPress Settings/Reading “Blog pages show at most X posts”
Solutions
You could raise that number but in a e-Commerce situation that could be impractical if you also run a blog. The solution is to add pagination to the search results.
Check out this link http://design.sparklette.net/teaches/how-to-add-wordpress-pagination-without-a-plugin/
I think it is a very nice solution for what you want, and it looks good in the theme as is.
STEP 1
To avoid issues implementing this I suggest a couple of changes. In the code to add to functions.php change the class name to avoid any clash with WP e-Commerce pagination
For example `class=\”pagination-search\`
STEP 2
Then change all the .pagination in the CSS to .pagination-search
STEP 3
Not a change just the location
The last 3 lines of search.php in the Mylo folder should be
133 134 135 136 137 | </div></div><!-- end Container 12 --><?php get_footer(); ?> |
Put the code from step 3 right above those 3 lines
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That will get you pagination. It will be one post per page as your blog is set. To return a certain number of results per page ignoring the reading setting you need to add this line of code in 2 places in search.php
This is the line, change the number to what you want
27 | query_posts("$query_string . '&posts_per_page=2'"); |
Put it after this line, which is around 26
26 | query_posts($query_string . "&post_type=wpsc-product" ); |
and after this line which is around line 81
81 | query_posts($query_string . "&post_type=post"); |
Just to be clear you will end up with something that looks like this each time except for post_type=post or wpsc-product
79 80 81 82 83 84 | <?php global $query_string; // grab the search query query_posts($query_string . "&post_type=post"); query_posts("$query_string . '&posts_per_page=2'"); ?> <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> |
