WordPress Site Search

Adding search functionality is a wonderful way to add functionality and pleasure to a visitors experience on your website and there are many wonderful ways to add WordPress site search to your website: 

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">

<div><input type="text" size="18" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" class="btn" />
</div>
</form>

If your templates supports it you can just add:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

(like "Write your search and hit Enter" )

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<div><input type="text" size="put_a_size_here" name="s" id="s" value="Write your search and hit Enter" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/>
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" class="btn" />
</div>
</form>

 

Here is an example of how this should look...

 How to quickly add site search to your WordPress website.


If you've tried all of the above steps and the search form does not display, you may need to contact our support for assistance. We may be able to help you identify and resolve the issue.



 

  • 210 Users Found This Useful

Was this answer helpful?

Related Articles

WordPress Response Body too Large and Too many arguments in Request Errors

If you are receiving a response body too large error with WordPress it is a result of WordPress...

WordPress Error : Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons

.svg and .xap files can result in the error "Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security...

Quickly Disable All WordPress Plugins via phpMyAdmin

Before beginning, be sure to have a backup of your database. You may backup your database by...

Not Receiving Form Email Through WordPress - SMTP

For anti-spam reasons be sure that the email address you are using to send from, exists in your...

There has been a critical error on this website

There has been a critical error on this website.   The error message "There has been a critical...