Recently one of our regular users ask if there was an easy way to add the WordPress search form in your post or page content using a shortcode. Well, the answer to that question is Yes. In this article, we will show you how to add the WordPress search form in your post or page content by creating a WordPress search shortcode.

 

All you have to do is open your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin and paste the following code:

 

add_shortcode(‘wpbsearch’, ‘get_search_form’);

 

Then use the shortcode in your post/page content like so: [wpbsearch]

 

This will display the default search form. If you want to display a custom search form, then you can do so like this:

 

function wpbsearchform( $form ) {

 

    $form = ‘<form role=”search” method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”‘ . home_url( ‘/’ ) . ‘” >

    <div><label class=”screen-reader-text” for=”s”>’ . __(‘Search for:’) . ‘</label>

    <input type=”text” value=”‘ . get_search_query() . ‘” name=”s” id=”s” />

    <input type=”submit” id=”searchsubmit” value=”‘. esc_attr__(‘Search’) .'” />

    </div>

    </form>’;

 

    return $form;

}

 

add_shortcode(‘wpbsearch’, ‘wpbsearchform’);

 

We hope that article will help all those who wanted to create a search form shortcode in WordPress.