Limiting WordPress search result items

Question

How to limit in WordPress search result page to 5 or 10 items?

Maybe any change in `general-template.php?

Can anyone help with that?

Answer 1

Changing The Number Of Results Per Page

By default WordPress uses the number defined under Settings > Reading (blog pages show at most…) to define how many results appear on the search results page. If you would like to show more, less or infinite results on your search page you can do so using the following code:

// Alter search posts per page
function pd_search_posts_per_page($query) {
    if ( $query->is_search ) {
        $query->set( 'posts_per_page', '10' );
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts','pd_search_posts_per_page' );