I wanted my search to exclude html tags so that in the search results page it wont show html tags and class. I'm a beginner in wordpress development so i find it hard to understand some functions. Here is my search.php:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Search Page
*/
get_header() ?>
<main>
<div class="page-title above-content">
<?php //$allsearch = new WP_Query("s=$s&showposts=0");
?>
<h1>
Search Results
</h1>
</div>
<div class="content flex-col">
<?php
if (have_posts()) {
while (have_posts()) {
the_post();
if ($s == '' or $s == ' ') {
echo '<p><div class="snackbar">No Results found! Please try again.</div></p>';
break;
}
?>
<!-- // Display the results -->
<h3 class="search-post-title"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank">
<?php
$title = get_the_title();
$keys = explode(" ", $s);
$title = preg_replace('/(' . implode('|', $keys) . ')/iu', '<strong class="search-excerpt">\0</strong>', $title);
echo $title;
?>
</a>
</h3>
<?php
$searchTxt = explode(" ", $s);
$content = get_the_content();
$content = explode("</p>", $content);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($content); $i++) {
for ($j = 0; $j < count($searchTxt); $j++) {
if (str_contains($content[$i], $searchTxt[$j])) {
echo '<p>';
$content[$i] = preg_replace('/(' . implode('|', $searchTxt) . ')/iu', '<strong class="search-excerpt">\0</strong>', $content[$i]);
echo $content[$i] . '... <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" target="_blank">Continue Reading.</a></p>';
break;
}
}
}
?>
<!-- // Pagination -->
<hr />
<?php
}
} else {
?>
<p>
<?php //_e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.');
echo '<div class="snackbar">No Results found! Please try again.</div>';
?>
</p>
<?php
}
?>
<div class="pagination">
<?php
wp_pagenavi(array('query'));
wp_reset_postdata();
?>
</div>
</div>
</main>
<?php get_footer() ?>
This is the result for searching a '<' symbol.
