Just like in catalogue search, the blog search bar in Shopify helps your readers to find relevant posts faster and navigate through them more easily. As you might know already, the default Shopify search bar is outdated and requires a lot of steps to modify, let alone implement in your blog.
So, for those of you who don't want to spend tons of time on development, we introduce Shopify Blog App. It allows you to add a search bar to the Shopify blog.
Today, you'll learn how to enable blog search in Shopify and how to integrate it with Shopify catalogue search.
Add Search Bar in Shopify Blog
1. Navigate to Apps > Magefan Blog > Configuration and find the Sidebar section.
2. Unfold the Search Form section, enable the widget and set a Sort Order for it.
Note: the sort order option defines the position of the search bar in the Shopify blog sidebar. The lower the number, the higher the search bar will be displayed.
Don't forget to Save the settings and that's it. Nothing else is required. You can go to the frontend and try it out.
Just type the word you'd like to look for and the app will provide results based on the relevancy of the post content.
The /search/ variable in the URL of the blog search results page will define that this is the search page. However, you can remove this variable by modifying the blog URL structure.
Integrate Blog Search into Shopify Search
In case you use the Pro plan of the Shopify Blog App, you can go one step further. You can go to Apps > Magefan Blog > Configuration > Search and enable the option to integrate blog search into default Shopify search.
Then once people search for products in your store, they will also find your blog posts.
Regardless of the option you use, your blog readers should be able to find the content they're interested in faster now! However, don't forget about other sidebar widgets that also improves your blog navigation.
