Hello and welcome to WPBeginner. In this
video I'll walk you through how to add
instant search to your WordPress website.
We'll be using Algolia which is a
cloud based search platform and it
allows you to integrate a search feature
to your WordPress website with ease.
First thing that we need to do is head over
to a Algolia.com and we need to set up
our account. After you set up your
account with a Algolia, head back over to
your WordPress dashboard and let's head
over to our plugins area, add new. We need
to search for a specific plugin that
integrates Algolia with our wordpress
website and it's called search by
Algolia. This is the one we want so let's
go ahead and install it and then
activate the plugin. Now we'll see a new
icon down here we'll click on that and
we need to connect it. We need to connect
the application ID and we'll also need
to add the API keys I'm going to go back
to my dashboard, head over to the keys
icon, and we'll copy this over and then
paste it in the dashboard. You also want
to decide how you want to prefix the
index I'll just leave it like that
and you can decide whether or not you want
to remove the powered by logo for
Algolia, make sure you save the changes.
Next we want to go over here and click
on the autocomplete we want to enable
autocomplete by clicking on this check
mark here and then choose which ones we
want to enable auto complete form.
Re-index our posts that'll be our largest
one, save our changes. The next thing we
want to make sure you do is go to the
search page and we need to enable or use
Algolia on the back end. That actually
will replace the default WordPress
search with Algolia, lets save changes and you
see we need to index them so let's go
ahead and click index. Right, now that
we've added it let's go ahead and also
add the search to our sidebar so I'm
going to go to appearance, widgets area
I'm going to scroll down and grab the
search widget, drag it up here, and add it
to the sidebar like that and now when we
go to our website we can do a quick
search for something and then to use the
feature I can just start typing in what
I want to look for. Its a real clean
and easy way to set up instant search
for your WordPress website. Did you learn
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