Looking for a good Search plugin

Search Unleashed.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search-unleashed/screenshots/

Very flexible and just great overall. Hope you like it!

Would that be something displayed for the visitors to search my site with? Like all i need is something on my site which lets a person type in a keyword and hit go thats it

Like i installed and activated it but NO search field shows on the homepage?

I need a plugin that lets me add a search field to the homepage of my blog

what about outsourcing it to google custom search? https://www.google.com/cse/

i use this plugin to simplify the setup

https://aleembawany.com/projects/wordpress/google-custom-search-plugin/

you installed it, but did you enable the widget or manually insert the code for example in your sidebar ?

i don’t recall having to do much to set it up TBH. i got the “Search box code” from google and pasted into the plugins settings page, and i *think* the only other thing i did was to change the search form to action=’/search/’

[edit] oh and some css fiddling to integrate the appearance of the results.

alan, i was referring to eddy’s concern of the search bar not showing up ?? although I do have a question, with the google search bar can you get rid of the search button and make it so someone can just type in what they want to search and just hit enter and it works ?

i use an HTML input type=’search’ which on apple’s safari looks and ACTS like a standard OSX search with no need for a submit. hitting return just seems to work on IE and firefox too.

I make the text ‘Search’ appears in the box when nothing has been typed in it yet with this in the footer:

<script>
	function do_search_box()
	{	search_box=document.getElementById('search');
		search_box.value="Search";
		search_box.onfocus= function(){ if (this.value=="Search") this.value=''; }
		search_box.onblur= function(){ if (this.value=="") this.value='Search'; }
	}

	if (navigator.vendor.indexOf('Apple') == -1)
		do_search_box();
</script>
<!--[if IE ]>
<script>
	do_search_box()
</script>
<![endif]-->

(where id=search on the input box too) there is probably a more elegant/compact way of doing this

Hi DBO

I ended up turning on the widget and now it shows up

But is there a way to not do it using widget and just insert some code into where i want it to show

If so, whats the code?

thank you for the info alan and eddy check out the readme.txt file it should be mentioned somewhere in there.