How Do I Add the Search Bar to Navbar in WordPress?

Adding a search bar to a WordPress navbar can be a great way to make finding specific content easy. There are a few different ways to add a search bar to a navbar, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The most traditional way to add a search bar to a navbar is to add a search field to a custom post type. This is the approach that WordPress core uses, and it’s the approach that we’ll be using in this tutorial. However, this approach has a few disadvantages.

First, custom post types are only available in a limited number of themes. Second, adding a search field to a custom post type can be difficult and time consuming, and it can be difficult to customise the search field to match the look and feel of your navbar.

Another approach is to add a search bar to a theme’s header. This is the approach that we’ll be using in this tutorial, and it has the advantage of being available in a wide range of themes.

First, it’s difficult to add a search bar to a theme’s header without resorting to custom coding. Second, it can be difficult to customise the search bar to match the look and feel of your navbar.

In this tutorial, we’ll be using a third approach: adding a search bar to a navbar widget. This approach has the advantage of being easy to use and customise, and it’s available in a wide range of themes.

We’ll also be using a plugin to add the search bar to our navbar widget, so there are no custom coding or theme installation required.

So, how do you add a search bar to a navbar in WordPress?

The easiest way to add a search bar to a navbar is to use a plugin. There are a number of plugins available that allow you to add a search bar to a navbar, and we’ll be using the WPBakery Page Builder plugin in this tutorial.

To add the search bar to our navbar, we first need to add the WPBakery Page Builder plugin to our WordPress site.

Once the WPBakery Page Builder plugin is installed, we can add the search bar to our navbar using its built-in builder. To do this, we first need to add a new navbar element to our navbar.

We’ll call this element the search bar navbar.

Next, we need to add a new search field to our search bar navbar. We’ll call this field search.

Finally, we need to add a new widget to our navbar. We’ll call this widget the search bar widget.

Once the search bar navbar, search field, and search bar widget are added to our navbar, we can add the widget to our navbar using the WPBakery Page Builder plugin’s built-in widget builder. To do this, we first need to add a new widget to our navbar.

We’ll call this widget the search bar widget.

Next, we need to add the WPBakery Page Builder plugin’s built-in widget builder to our navbar. We can do this by clicking on the Widgets menu item and selecting the WPBakery Page Builder widget from the list of widgets.

Finally, we need to add the search bar widget to our navbar.

Once the search bar widget is added to our navbar, we can add the search bar navbar to our navbar using the WPBakery Page Builder plugin’s built-in builder. We can do this by clicking on the Widgets menu item.