Now redirect your WordPress default search to popular search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo so that your site’s visitors can get more appropriate search results when they search anything in your blog.
Simple Search Redirect is new WordPress plugin that adds a widget (and shortcode too) that lets you redirect users to various search engine’s site:search filters which gives more accurate result than default WP search functionality.
How To Use ?
Install and activate the plugin. Then simply drag Simple Search Redirect widget to your sidebar’s widget area. Configure widget options by selecting your search engine (Google, Yahoo or Bing). Save, that’s all.
What Will Happen ?
When anyone will type any search term on your website’s search box then after pressing enter he will be automatically redirected to search engine (Google, Bing or Yahoo) showing your site’s internal results.
How To Use Search Redirect Via Shortcode ? (OPTIONAL)
You have the widget but you can also use this [simple-search-redirect] shortcode for showing this search box inside your posts pages etc.
Shortcocde to redirect to Yahoo: [simple-search-redirect engine=yahoo]
In the same way use:
- For Google use
googlein the shortcode) - For Bing use
bingin the shortcode) - ForYahoo use
yahooin the shortcode)` - For Duck Duck Go use
duckduckgoin the shortcode)
button=false[simple-search-redirect engine=google placeholder="Search on Google"]