Do you want to redirect your search to the post if there’s only one search result? This snippet improves the onsite search experience by eliminating the need for a click.
Instructions:
All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:
add_action('template_redirect', 'single_result');
function single_result() {
if (is_search()) {
global $wp_query;
if ($wp_query->post_count == 1) {
wp_redirect( get_permalink( $wp_query->posts['0']->ID ) );
}
}
}
Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.
If you liked this code snippet, please consider checking out our other articles on the site like: Improve the Default WordPress Search Experience – the Complete Search WP Review.
I get a syntax error, unexpected ‘$wp_query’ (T_VARIABLE) when i copy paste in your code in the functions.php file. So what i have is a custom post type named cars with 4 taxonomies and i have made an archive page that uses the grid plugin and the search and filter pro plug-in. All works well but i want to have a redirected to the post page instead if i have only one result in the archive. Can you give some hints ? Thanks !
Thanks!
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Nice code but I would make one improvement… change
if ($wp_query->post_count == 1) to
if ($wp_query->found_posts == 1)
this is working properly, thanks!
Glad it helped 🙂
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Your sample worked fine for me, everything appears to work working.
Hey, me too now. Sorry. Thanks.
no problem 🙂