Add a blog search box

A search box lets visitors type a word and find posts that match. It's useful once your blog has more than a handful of posts.

What it searches

It looks at the titles of your posts only. It doesn't look at the text inside them. That means a post only turns up if its title contains the word someone typed. Give your posts clear titles, in the words your customers use.

Steps

1. Log in to your site editor and open the page that lists your posts.
2. Add the Search Posts widget. See Add a widget to a page.
3. Click the widget, then choose its content settings from the small menu that appears.
4. Change the placeholder text, which is the wording shown inside the box before anyone types. For example, "Search our posts".
5. To change the way it looks, click the widget again and choose its design settings. These work like the design settings for other widgets.
6. Publish. If you don't see a Publish button, tell us and we'll publish it for you.
7. Try it on your live page. Type a word from one of your post titles and check that the post comes up.

Tips

• Put the box near the top of your list of posts, where visitors will see it first.
• If your blog only has a few posts, you may not need a search box. Visitors can scroll the list instead. See Show your latest posts on a page.

Need a hand?

Email hello@zossoz.com with your business name and the page, and we'll take care of it. We reply within one business day. See Request a change.