Search related WordPress snippet

Adding search to your theme

Place the following code in your theme

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<input type="text" size="16" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" class="btn" />
</form>

The search bar with the default text inside.

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">   
<input type="text" value="Search" name="s" id="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search & Hit Enter') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search & Hit Enter';}" />
</form>

Exclude pages from search results

Put the following snippet to your function.php file

function filter_search($query) {
	if ($query->is_search) {
		$query->set('post_type', 'page');
	}
	return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'filter_search');