The plugin Easy Search provide a zero configuration search for the Gutenberg block editor.
Below is the screenshot of how it looks like in the WordPress Gutenberg Editor.
To use the plugin is pretty simple. Just follow below steps:
Install and Activate Easy Search Install and Activate Easy Search
You can install the Easy Search plugin from various ways:
Install Easy Search from wp-admin Install Easy Search from wp-admin
This is a easiest way to install the plugin form website backend.
- Go to Plugins > Add new
- Search for “Easy Search”
- Click on the Install and then Activate button
Download Easy Search from wp.org Download Easy Search from wp.org
- Visit plugin page https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-search/ and download the plugin zip
- Go to Plugins > Add new
- Upload the plugin zip
- Click on Install land then Activate.
Install through FTP Install through FTP
- Visit plugin page https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-search/ and download the plugin zip
- Extract the downloaded zip into /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Now, Go to Plugins page and click on activate button.
See below screenshot for reference:
How to use the Easy Search plugin? How to use the Easy Search plugin?
It is very simple to use the plugin.
- Create a new post or open an existing on which have a Gutenberg Editor support
- Search from the Easy Seach from the block list screen
See below screenshot for reference:
- Or type
/
which show the Gutenberg block search box - Type “Easy Search“
See below screenshot for reference:
Now, Simply click on the Easy Search block. After clicking on it you can see something like below:
Here, You can see I have type the word hello and the Easy search return the result from the provided search term (hello).
Now, After visiting on front-end you can see the search box same as the back-end.