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I've got a site on Wordpress 4.0.1, and I can't find search.php.

A database batch process has applied a template to the default search results page, but I now can't find the page to change it back.

How can I change the template of this page?

Would creating a new "search.php" in my theme help? If so, what should this file contain?

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  • yes it probably would, having search.php is not mandatory for a theme, if it is not present it will fall back to index.php
    – Wyck
    Commented Jan 26, 2015 at 23:06

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Normally, copying index.php file for the theme as search.php will let you have a new base template to work off of with the same styles and look as your theme, assuming the theme implemented index.php decently.

That would give you a solid start to be able to make changes to provided nothing is using a hook such as template_redirect to hijack the search results and use some other template to display them.

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Privateer was on the right track, however, copying index.php as search.php didn't change the results.

My solution was to find a known good copy of search.php and use that instead. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-paginate-cant-install-on was the copy. I've modified it for my purposes.

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