WordPress Search

WordPress Search Functionality

WordPress search works like search engine and can be added to a website using a Search block or widget. The standard search tool returns results based on user input. WordPress scans search result content from page titles, media titles, alt text, file names, image captions and paragraph texts.

Role of URI while searching

It is important to make URLs user friendly because shorter URLs are easier ro share, they give insight into what your page is about, it makes it easier to navigate your site, they make site look more trustworthy and improve your search engine rankings.

How to show active search term in search form field

In order to display search term is search field we need to make a little change in searchform.php. In the part where value=?php _e('Search'); we need to change it on value=?php if( is_search() ){ echo get_search_query();

Summary

WordPress search system plays a very important role in making the content accessible to the users. Website Search has following benefits: it increases the visibility of your content, helps understand your audience's preferences, makes the visitors engage with your content and helps you get more clicks, page views and possibly better conversion rate.