First some explanation about the problem.
The situation is when you have a Joomla 1.5 site with sh404sef 2.1.4 component and you want to add additional section for a blog for example and you want to use K2 2.4 for this.
So in this case you have additional menu item called for example ‘blog’ where you see a blog of your K2 articles. But you also want to have the tags and the search.
The problem is that when you hit on a tag you go to the page with the tags but you don’t see the other modules for the ‘blog’ item (you are redirected to a page without Itemid).
The same is with the search results page.
And one additional fix for a prefix in the url for your K2 blog.
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If you want to change the look of the Joomla search module and Joomla search component:
Copy the file:
/components/com_search/views/search/tmpl/default.php
to
/templates/my_template/html/com_search/search/default.php
Now make a few changes in that file and refresh your site.
In a similar fashion, you can also override the Search Module layout file. Copy the file:
/modules/mod_search/tmpl/default.php
to
/templates/my_template/html/mod_search/default.php
If you don’t want all your search results to open on the front page of your website just use this hack. After it they will open on a separate page.
Just open your-site/components/com_search/controller.php
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