The site search works differently between my development site and my production site and was wondering if it had to do with theme or wordpress core settings.

On my development site, i get a list of results that have hyperlins back to the page.
On my production site, i do not get hyperlinks.

I have attached two screenshots of both results pages.

Spent the morning, merging dev vs. live/production sites and other than a few htacess IP differences the directories and files within are identical. So, must be a setting.

what happens if you swap to twenty-eleven?

Will check tomorrow when site is less busy. Thanks.

Search is presented correctly in twenty-eleven.

Attached searchform.php

Also, here are the changes i have made to the theme (exist on dev (where search results work) and live servers):

To make Logo Linkable to External URL in bfa_header_config.php add:
if ( $bfa_ata['logo'] != "" ) { echo '<td ' . $header_rowspan . 'valign="middle"><a href="http://www.mysite.edu"><img src="';

To make tagline clickable in functions.php add:
<?php function blog_filter($string, $show) { if ( $show == "description" ) {$string = str_replace('CUNY Graduate Center', '<a href="http://www.mysite.edu/">MY Site</a>', $string);} return $string; } add_filter('bloginfo', 'blog_filter', 10, 2 ); ?>


Modify footer in functions.php:
$footer_content .= '<br /><a href="http://www.mysite.edu">Contact Us</a>: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY | Circulation: (212) 977-7083| Reference: (212) 977-7077 | <a href="http://www.mysite.edu">Email</a> <br/> </p> </a>'; return $footer_content; }


Refresh RSS News in functions.php:
add_filter( 'wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', create_function('$fixrss', 'return 1800;') );

Disable Flash Media Uploader in functions.php:
<? function disable_flash_uploader() { return false;} add_filter( 'flash_uploader', 'disable_flash_uploader', 1 ); ?>

Add Breadcrumbs to Pages in index.php:
<?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {yoast_breadcrumb('<p id="breadcrumbs">','</p>'); } ?>

If it works in one site and not the other, then it is a difference between the two.

I just tested the search on a vanila atahualpa site and I get the links back, so it must be something you have done. One of the changes, some plugin or combination of plugins.

Here is an idea, take a look at this thread and install a fresh copy of the same version of atahualpa and test with that one. If it works, you will know it is one of the changes you made.