Adding and Setting Up Wix Site Search
6 min
In this article
- Step 1 | Add Wix Site Search to your site
- Step 2 | Customize your Show on Search settings
- Step 3 | Reorder what appears in your search results
- Step 4 | Customize the search suggestions box
Ensure your visitors always find the most relevant content, products, services, and posts when they search your site. You can set up your search bar to provide suggestions to your visitors during their search. This helps guide them to specific areas in your site and find what they are looking for in a timely manner.
Important:
The Studio Editor features a new search experience that is not yet available in the Wix Editor. If your site was created using a template in the Studio Editor, you’ll need to remove the old Site Search element and then add the Wix Site Search app to your site to enable the new search experience.
Step 1 | Add Wix Site Search to your site
When you add Wix Site Search to your site, a search bar is added to your site's header. Another page called "Search Results" is also added to your site.
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
- Go to your editor.
- Click Add Apps
on the left side of the editor. - Search for the Wix Site Search app in the search bar then select the app.
- Click Add to Site.
Step 2 | Customize your Show on Search settings
The Show on Search settings determine what your site visitors see when they use the search bar. You can choose which types of search results you want to appear in the list (e.g. blog posts, products, events). You can also change the names of each type of result.
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
- Click the Search Results element in your editor.
- Click Settings.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Click the Show on Search tab and enable the toggles next to the relevant page types. Only content from enabled page types will appear in the search results.
- (Optional) Click the Edit icon
next to the relevant page type to change how it appears in the search results. - (Optional) Enable the Show hidden pages (SEO) toggle to allow visitors to search for pages that are hidden from search engines.
Step 3 | Reorder what appears in your search results
Next, organize your search to have the results appear in a particular order. For example, you can prioritize your store products above your blog posts. This means your site visitors see products at the top of their search results and blog posts below the products.
Note:
This changes the order in which the page types appear in the Search Results page.
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
- Click the Search Results element in your editor.
- Click Settings.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Click Reorder.
- Use drag and drop to reorganize the page types.
- Under Advanced Settings, enable or disable the option to show hidden pages.
Step 4 | Customize the search suggestions box
Note:
This step only applies to the Studio Editor.
If you’re using the Studio Editor, you can customize the Search Suggestions box. This lightbox displays helpful suggestions and trending items as visitors search your site, improving engagement and making it easier for them to find exactly what they need.
To customize the search suggestions box:
- Click Pages
on the left side of the editor. - Click Search Suggestions Box.
- Click the Search Suggestions element in your editor.
- Click Suggestion Settings.
- Enable or disable the Show trending items toggle.
- Click the Elements icon
. - Select or deselect the checkboxes to show or hide the following:
- Search suggestions: Offer search suggestions as the visitor searches.
- Results suggestions: Offer results suggestions as the visitor searches
- Show all button: Displays a show all button for the visitor to click and see all results.
Want to keep customizing your search results page?
You can change the layout and design settings to suit your site's look and feel.
