Adding and Setting Up Wix Site Search
5 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
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. However, if your site was created using a template in the Studio Editor, you will need to add the Wix app to your site in order to have the new search on your site.
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.
on the left side of the editor.
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.
next to the relevant page type to change how it appears in the search results.
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.
Want to keep customizing your search results page?
You can change the layout and design settings to suit your site's look and feel.
