27th November 2009 - 2 minutes read time
Wordpress allows administrators to change the number of posts that are printed out on a page at once on the page Settings - Reading. However, this also has an impact on the number of search results that Wordpress will display. In order to keep the size of the home page down many Wordpress admins will reduce the number of articles to two or three. This can instantly make search results with only a few results reach many pages.
To get around this you will need a template called search.php, this is the template that Wordpress will use when printing out the search results. Towards the top of this file (anywhere above The Loop) add the following code.
