How to add search to wordpress in 5 minutes

In this article, we will see how to add search to your wordpress site. This method involves creating a custom search engine using expertrec.

Steps to add search in Wordpress

Pre-requisites before creating a wordpress search engine-

1. Have a live wordpress site. (not under development or staging)
2. Have a wordpress sitemap created ( if you don’t have a wordpress sitemap you can create one by following instructions here )
3. Have access to the wordpress admin panel.

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Here are steps to add search to your wordpress site in 5 minutes.

1. Go to https://cse.expertrec.com/newuser?platform=wordpress.
2. Enter your wordpress website URL and click on next->
3. Enter your sitemap URL ( this is so that all the URLs in your sitemap get crawled and shown in search results. )
4. Wait for the crawl of your wordpress site to complete.
5. Download expertrec’s wordpress search extension from here -> Download link
6. In your wordpress admin panel, go to Plugins-> Add New-> Upload plugin
7. Upload expertrec wordpress zip and click install. 
8. Click on the Activate plugin.
9. In your left panel you must be able to see expertrec’s wordpress plugin logo, click on that.
10. Get your site ID from your expertrec control panel ( here ).
11. Copy-paste your site id in your wordpress control panel and click on save changes.
12. Make sure you have upgraded to a paid plan from here.(9 USD per month)
13. That’s it ! Your brand new wordpress search is up and running! Here are snapshots of the search form and the search results pages.
14. Snapshot of your wordpress search autocomplete.
15. Snapshot of your wordpress search results page which has filters and facets 
16. Snapshot of your wordpress search spelling error tolerance feature- As you can see, a spelling mistake “gogle” has been corrected to “google”

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