WordPress Single Conditional for Search Page

Question

Is there a way to filter single.php so that if someone came from search.php it would display one thing, but if they came from anywhere else it would display another?

Thanks, Josh

Answer 1

You could hook into the the_permalink filter and check for is_search() to conditionally modify the URLs of your search results to include some additional parameters that your single.php then checks for. Something like this (may require tinkering):

add_filter( 'the_permalink', 'wpse155331_the_permalink' );
function wpse155331_the_permalink( $url ) {
  if ( is_search() ) {
    $url = add_query_arg( array( 'from_search' => 'true' ), $url );
  }
  return $url;
}

Answer 2

I created an if statement to solve my problem:

<?
    if (stripos(wp_get_referer(), "cat=")!==false) {
        echo "Came from Search";
    } else {
        echo "Didn't come from Search";
    }
?>

I am doing a category search, so I check to see if cat= is in the referrer url (or search url), if it is I execute some code, if not I execute some different code :-)

That's it!

Thanks,
Josh