Search on your site
The Search block puts a search box on your site. A visitor types, and the block looks through your published pages, your posts and, if your project has a Knowledge Base, your published articles. Matching results drop down under the box, and clicking one opens it.
What it searches
Search covers the public parts of your site. Your landing page, any published page you have made public and your published blog posts. If your project also has a Knowledge Base app, published articles are in there too.
It matches on four fields. The title, the URL slug, the SEO title and the SEO description, plus the excerpt on knowledge base articles. Only published, public content appears. Drafts and private pages stay out of it.
Adding it and setting it up
How results look
As the visitor types, results appear after a short pause, so the block is not searching on every keystroke. Each result shows its title, a short excerpt and a small label saying what it is, a page, a post or an article. Clicking a result opens it. An x clears the box, and clicking anywhere else closes the list.
What it does not do
The match is literal. It does not correct typos and it does not read for meaning. A visitor who searches a word that appears only in the body of a page will not find that page, so put the words people are likely to search into the title or the SEO description.
For questions phrased in sentences, the Chat app is the better tool. It reads your published content and answers in full sentences.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
No. Only published, public content appears. Drafts and private pages stay hidden.
No. It matches only the four fields listed under What it searches. If a word matters for search, put it in the title or the SEO description.
Yes. The same block works on all three, and it searches whichever site it sits on.