Do you have a search form?

[ses5909]

If not, why not? I have them on e afew of my blogs but don't have it on one of them. I just never put it in..guess i was lazy. I didn't notice until I thought of this topic!

[davemcnally]

I have a search form planned for mine, easier for someone to find something at a later date rather than digging through archives.

[pbradish]

Yes! A search form is a must on any website IMO.

[snookca]

I used to have a search. But now I don't. I want to but I need to program it. But I'm too lazy to. But I will. Not sure when. But I will. One day...

there's always google.

[kingjacob]

I have one in my sidebar

<h3>Article search</h3>
<div class="block">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH.'/searchform.php') ?>
</div>
<?php endif // !is_search() ?>

but for somereason it doesnt show up.

[samwoodfin]

I used to have a search. But now I don't. I want to but I need to program it. But I'm too lazy to. But I will. Not sure when. But I will. One day...

there's always google.

Tacking on a Technorati search box is REALLY easy.

[ses5909]

Jacob, I'd be interested in seeing what the first part of your if statement is.

[SarahG]

I have a search form on my blogs. If nothing else, I use it to look for particular posts with code in for me to copy and paste elsewhere.

We always put them on static sites too. With WP however you need an additional plugin to ensure the search searches the static pages as well as the blog posts - Search Everything Wordpress Plugin Scattered (http://dancameron.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/search-everything-wordpress-plugin/)

[Dan Schulz]

My personal Web site/blog www.dan-schulz.com will include a search form. I'm also probably going to add a menu for additional information, frequently asked questions/help and a site map as well.

Mainly since a significant percentage of users do not use the menu as their primary means of navigation. Some will use the site map, while others will use the search form (if available) and others still will use a combination of either the menu, search form, site map or all of the above to find what they're looking for.

It's all about Usabillity 101 here. :)

[rodaniel]

I have a search page, but from what I can tell with Google Analytics, nobody ever uses it. Ack! And very few people use my sitemap page either. Double ack!!

But visitors do seem to be using the labels to peruse my post categories. Yay!

[Dan Schulz]

It's probably because your site is easy enough for your visitors to find what they're looking for via traditional navigation means (read: the menu). Though I haven't seen your site so I can't say for certain (well as certain as I can be anyway, and I'm only human).

[rodaniel]

It's probably because your site is easy enough for your visitors to find what they're looking for via traditional navigation means (read: the menu). Though I haven't seen your site so I can't say for certain (well as certain as I can be anyway, and I'm only human).

I sure hope you're right about that Dan. Well heck, just go give it a look and lemme know! (Always gotta pimp the site, y'know!)

:D

[dojo]

I have the default one in wordpress. Never really tested it that much ... hope it works

[jlee]

I don't have one yet.... haven't had the time to attempt to implement it but it's on my to-do list!

[Dan Grossman]

I added one pointing to Google site search to my template manually. I'd like to replace it with Lijit (http://www.lijit.com/) for a while to play around with that, but only if I can do so without messing up my layout. I might have to figure out the parameters their search expects and write a custom form to submit to it again.

[deronsizemore]

Yep, I'm using the built in functionality of ExpressionEngine.

[BPartch]

Yes I have a search form.