I’m trying to create a page template on a page named /search but it gets redirected to /members/?s=

how can I avoid this.

[@nahummadrid Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

I still haven’t figured out why a wp page slug /search does not work with buddypress/bp-default — I’m trying to house a search page but it either redirects to /members/?s= or the homepage.

Any clues/

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Uh, yeah. We take “search” specifically, even know we don’t have a page mapping. We needed it to make our directory component searches to work in 1.5. Guess someone should document this on the codex

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

even though*

[@nahummadrid Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

@djpaul that’s my “search” page! not 1.5’s!

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

As I said, BuddyPress 1.5 takes the “search” URL for itself.

[@nahummadrid Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

hehe…it’s all good. 1.5 can take it.

…what’s another word for search

[@pcwriter Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

How about these…
find
explore
ask
query

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

I think that BP should probably *not* be hijacking the ‘search’ slug, when a WP page has the same slug. (By “should” I mean that the catch_uri sequence is designed to do that, but that we should perhaps consider this a bug.) Might be worth a Trac ticket.