Beta Unlocked: Site Search Bar !

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@patrick Just in sake of experiment, can you please replace image on one of pages and republish your site?

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@evg It seems like I need to go through a re-upload the social share images for each page. It works after I change it to something else and then change it back.

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@patrick sounds like a bug, we will check it

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This is huge!, I just checked and in regards of design we will need to adjust the high of the bar as is adjusting the wide.

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Also, I just noticed that in the editor the font in the bar is bigger than when published, see photos.

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I noticed the same thing

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Known issue, fix is on its way

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Thanks, It’s a known bug and we will be addressing it shortly.

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@evg I also noticed that the words get cut off/jumbled together for longer descriptions -

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@patrick indeed a bug. We will check it. Thanks!

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I have wanted this for years since my website has so much content. Is there a way of adding this feature without it adding a store page? My websites aren’t stores. I like the search feature in the QA template.
https://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/chronicles

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After testing the site search bar I feel like is very limited and needs more things to bring the value that we need. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an amazing start to a great future that wix platform needs but I feel like the following should be implemented on release:

1)The search crawl on the main site pages is fine but also not a good approach because as soon as you introduced the dynamic pages we no longer duplicate pages anymore to build websites with high volume of pages. That been said, for a 5 or 10 page website the site search is useless unless you are using wix bookings, services, shop, blog etc and the search bar brings up individual results from each of them.

  1. On a website that is packing more than 4000 dynamic pages (The one I’m working on atm), the site search bar shows it’s true value! Even for smaller websites we need to have the ability to search through databases that we manually create.

I mean I managed to make a search engine that works 90% just with corvid and it pulls data from 10 different databases and the blog and then shows the results in a single repeater. It shouldn’t be hard for you to add this on the wix site search bar. You don’t even have to make the site search bar to get the data from the manual databases automatically. Just give us the option to select which databases we want to search, then select manually the specific collumns on that database for the image, title and description so it gets the data displayed correctly on the results.

It’s hard to get everything down on a single post, I hope I really passed through my points for the website site search.

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If you don’t have a store it will still search within pages. Take it for a spin!

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@danielle-raiz-wix Does the search bar need to be on every single page or can we put it in the header or footer and it’ll still pull what the user is looking for from the entire website?

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@yarglouis If you put it on the header it will be on every page. No matter where you place it, it searches across your site.

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Thanks Konstantinos,

  1. Dynamic pages indexing is on the way along with blog, forum and bookings.
  2. Corvid API will be there soon, you would be able to populate repeater with search results according to your logic. We are planning to offer indexing of corvid collections in both flavors, both automatic and manual via API. Which one would you prefer?
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It’s a good start but I don’t want a large box. You can only scale it by so much. I like the animated line you have in the QA template (pics below). And I’ve been seeing these types of Searches on websites recently.
https://www.pem.org/visit/library (click mag glass)

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Thanks. We plan to add an expandable search icon really soon. Stay tuned…

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  1. Great news!
  2. Let’s be honest, Wix does a great job helping people without knowledge build websites but someone who has build a website with databases and all will either be an expert or has a technical knowledge. So personally I would prefer the manual approach as it will give us the freedom to meet our project specific needs. Thank you for your frequent updates and that you actually spending time listening to our feedback, keep up the great work!
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Great, we will share corvid API here once we finish the documentation