search template

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying search results pages.
 *
 *
 */


global $query_string;
global $wp_query;

$search_query = wp_parse_str( $query_string, $array );
$search = new WP_Query( $search_query );
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;


// Create dummy post (not in database) to avoid error messages due to NULL post object
if ( $total_results == 0 ) {
    global $post;

    // WP_Post constructor
    function __construct( $post ) {
        foreach ( get_object_vars( $post ) as $key => $value )
            $this->$key = $value;
    }

    // set up attributes for this dummy post
    $post_id = -99;  // negative ID, to avoid clash with a valid post
    $post = new stdClass();
    $post->ID = $post_id;
    $post->post_author = 1;
    $post->post_date = current_time( 'mysql' );
    $post->post_date_gmt = current_time( 'mysql', 1 );
    $post->post_title = 'Some dummy title';
    $post->post_content = 'Some dummy content';
    $post->post_status = 'publish';
    $post->comment_status = 'open';
    $post->post_name = 'fake-page-' . rand( 1, 99999 ); // append random number to avoid clash
    $post->post_type = 'page';
    $post->filter = 'raw'; // important!

    // Note: this gets rid of auto-pagination errors, but introduces comment-template notice that I can't seem to fix (Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/html/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 1196), which I believe refers to $post, which is now this dummy instead of some null post
}
// End dummy post creation


get_header(); ?>
    <div class="search-container">
    <section id="primary" class="content-area">
        <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
        <div class="search-page-form" id="ss-search-page-form"><?php get_search_form(); ?></div>

        <header class="page-header">
            <div class="search-page-title"><b>You searched for: </b><?php echo get_search_query(); ?></div>
            <div class="number-results">We found <?php echo $total_results ?> results.</div>
        </header><!-- .page-header -->

        <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

            <?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
            <?php
            global $post;
            $image = get_the_post_thumbnail_url( $post->ID, 'medium-large-size' );
            if( empty( $image ) )
            {
                $image = get_stylesheet_directory_uri()."/images/default.png";
            }
            ?>
            <div class="single-result-item">
                <div class="results-featured-image"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo $image ?>" ></a></div>
                <div class="results-item-wrapper">
                    <h3 class="search-post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
                    <div class="search-post-excerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>


                    <div class="button-wrapper"><button class="search-post-link"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a></button></div>
                </div>
            </div>

            <?php endwhile; ?>

            <?php base_pagination(); ?>

            <?php wp_reset_postdata(); // added this to bring query back if multiple queries are desired ?>

        <?php else : ?>

            <?php get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', 'none' ); ?>

            <div class="archive-page">
                <br clear="all">
                        <p>However, you might be interested in checking out these recent posts:</p>

                        <h3>Recent Posts</h3>

                        <?php echo do_shortcode('[display-posts post_type="waterfalls,post,userwaterfallreview" posts_per_page="25" orderby="date" order="DESC" image_size="medium" wrapper="div" include_author="true" include_date="true" date_format="F j, Y g:i a" include_excerpt="true" excerpt_length="55" excerpt_more="...Read More" excerpt_more_link="true" default_image="75483"]'); ?>

                </div><!-- end .archive-page -->

        <?php endif; ?>

        </main><!-- #main -->
    </section><!-- #primary -->
</div>
<?php //get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer();