How to Add Search Bar for Posts in WordPress?

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When you have lots of posts on your website, adding a post specific search can improve the user experience. By adding a search bar for posts will help users to quickly and efficiently locate the content they are looking for.

With the Search Bar block from the Nexter Blocks, you can easily add a search bar for posts specifically in WordPress.

To check the complete feature overview documentation of the Nexter Blocks Navigation Menu block, click here.

Requirement  – This block is a part of the Nexter Blocks, make sure it’s installed & activated to enjoy all its powers.

To do this, add the Search Bar block on the page or template and follow the steps –

1. Open the item under Search Bar and select Post from the Source section.

2. From the Select Post dropdown, select Posts.

searchbar field post

Now, you should be able to see a dropdown beside the search bar.

In the Label field, you can add a label name for the select dropdown.

In the Placeholder field, you can add a placeholder text for the select dropdown. 

From the Show Count toggle, you can show the number of posts the item has in numbers.

3. Now go to Extra Option tab and enable the AJAX Search toggle.

searchbar ajax search

Now you can select posts from the dropdown to show all the posts in the search result or you can directly search for blog posts.

In a similar way, you can select pages from the Select Post dropdown to search pages only. 

searchbar field post demo

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