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.
![Easy Search 1 Easy Search 1](https://i1.wp.com/maheshwaghmare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/easy-search-wordpress-plugin-preview.png?fit=1024%2C493&ssl=1)
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:
![Easy Search 2 Easy Search 2](https://i0.wp.com/maheshwaghmare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/install-and-activate-easy-search-wordpress-plugin.png?fit=1024%2C493&ssl=1)
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:
![Easy Search 3 Easy Search 3](https://i1.wp.com/maheshwaghmare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/search-for-easy-search-gutenberg-block.png?fit=1024%2C493&ssl=1)
- Or type
/
which show the Gutenberg block search box - Type “Easy Search“
See below screenshot for reference:
![Easy Search 4 Easy Search 4](https://i2.wp.com/maheshwaghmare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/inline-search-for-easy-search-gutenberg-block.png?fit=1024%2C493&ssl=1)
Now, Simply click on the Easy Search block. After clicking on it you can see something like below:
![Easy Search 5 Easy Search 5](https://i0.wp.com/maheshwaghmare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/easy-search-wordpress-plugin-backend.png?fit=1024%2C493&ssl=1)
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.
![Easy Search 6 Easy Search 6](https://i2.wp.com/maheshwaghmare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/easy-search-wordpress-plugin-frontend.png?fit=1024%2C493&ssl=1)