When someone searches your blog using WordPress built-in search engine, the results are displayed as a list. Wouldn’t it be nice if we can redirect the visitor directly to the post when there is only one match in the search list? Here is a snippet can do just like that.
Copy and paste the following code snippet into your functions.php file, or your own plugin.
// Redirect to post when there is only one post in search results function redirect_search_to_single_post() { if (is_search()) { global $wp_query; if ($wp_query->post_count == 1 && $wp_query->max_num_pages == 1) { wp_redirect(get_permalink($wp_query->posts['0']->ID)); exit; } } } add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_search_to_single_post');