WordPress Search Problems - wordpress

Question

I have researched this problem and still can't seem to figure out why my search function isn't working on a theme I'm working on. Below is my code that I have for my search.php and my searchform.php files. The search files were hardly modified from a boilerplate, blank WordPress theme. When I search for anything, it returns a 404 error. I have researched search's returning 404's and still can't find the solution. Blow is my code, any help would be greatly appreciated.
searchform.php----------------------------------
<form action="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>" id="searchform" method="get">
<label for="search"><object data='<?php bloginfo('template_directory');? >/images/input-search.svg'>
<img src='<?php bloginfo('template_directory');?>/images/input-search.png'>
</object></label>
<input type="search" name="search" />
</form>
search.php---------------------------------------
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<h2>Search Results</h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/nav.php' ); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/meta.php' ); ?>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/nav.php' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<h2>No posts found.</h2>
<?php endif; ?>

Answer 1

You need to make sure that your search form is enabled in your functions.php file like so:
// ENABLES SEARCH FORM STUFF
function my_search_form( $form ) {
$form = '<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="' . home_url( '/' ) . '" >
<div><label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">' . __('Search for:') . '</label>
<input type="text" value="' . get_search_query() . '" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'. esc_attr__('Search') .'" />
</div>
</form>';
return $form;
}
// ENABLES SEARCH FORM
add_filter( 'get_search_form', 'my_search_form' );
This is the code I use in my themes. Then this would call in my search form:
<?php get_search_form(); ?>
This is my searchform.php
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>">
<label for="s" class="assistive-text"><?php _e( 'Search' ); ?></label>
<input type="text" class="field" name="s" id="s" placeholder="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search' ); ?>" />
<input type="submit" class="submit" name="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search' ); ?>" />
</form>