Customizing the number of search results displayed in WordPress - hosting.com

This article describes how to customize the number of search results that WordPress displays per page. You may want to do this, for example, if your site only has a few posts or a large number of posts.

Customizing search results

To customize the number of search results displayed per page, follow these steps:

Log in to WordPress as the administrator.
On the Dashboard in the left sidebar, click Appearance, and then click Theme Editor:
In the right sidebar, under Theme Files, click Theme Functions (functions.php).
Copy the following code snippet and then paste it at the bottom of the functions.php file:

function control_search_results() {
    if ( is _search() )
        set_query_var('posts_per_archive_page', 10); // Change 10 to the number of search results you want to appear per page.
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'control_search_results');

Click Update File. WordPress saves the changes to the functions.php file. To test the new code, do a search and confirm that the correct number of results appears per page.