Question

I’ve read the tutorials and forum posts on this, but whatever I do it doesn’t seem to make any difference.

I’d like to change my search results to a 1column layout. So far I have tried going to

app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/catalogsearch.xml

and changing every instance of

<reference name="root">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>LAYOUT HERE</template></action> 
</reference>

to

<reference name="root">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
</reference>

I have disabled my caches, refreshed them, flushed them, I have even reindexed my indexes.

I don’t have a catalogsearch.xml in my theme that could be over riding it either.

Any ideas, this is so frustrating.

Answer 1

Don’t change the files in “base” themes. They get overridden by the theme you are actually using. The conventional and recommended way to make changes is by creating a local.xml file in your custom theme and putting actions in there.