Your Search Page at /opensolr-search

Your search page is a normal WordPress page named Search, at https://your-site/opensolr-search/. The plugin creates it when you activate it, with the shortcode [opensolr_search] as its content, so your theme's header, menu and footer wrap it like any other page.

Good to know

• Rename or move it as you like: every link of the search page follows its address. The theme's page title is left out on this page, so the search box sits right under your header.
• If the page is deleted, the plugin still answers at /opensolr-search/ with a page of its own, and creates a new Search page the next time you open your WordPress admin.
• Your theme's search box is not taken over. To send it to this page, point the form at /opensolr-search/ and name its text field q. Every search has its own address, such as /opensolr-search/?q=solar+panel, that can be shared.
• Only your site: results are limited to the pages of your site's domain, even when your index holds other sites.
• Your own look: copy templates/opensolr-search-page.php from the plugin into your theme folder as opensolr-search-page.php, and the plugin uses your copy.
• When you are signed in as an administrator, every result gets PIN, EXCLUDE, EXCLUDE ALL and REMOVE buttons: Pin and exclude results.

Two ways to show it

• WordPress Native (default): the plugin draws the page with its own template.
• Opensolr Embeddable Search UI: the hosted search page of your index, shown inside your page.

What visitors can do

• Autocomplete and Did you mean: suggestions as they type, and spelling help.
• Search operators: phrases, required and excluded words.
• Sorting: relevance, or any enabled facet field.
• Fresh: newer results first.
• AI switch: search by meaning, or keywords only.
• Web and Documents tabs: pages and documents searched separately.
• Search by image: a photo as the query.
• AI Hints: a short answer written from your content.
• AI Reader: a summary of any result.
• Facets: filters in the sidebar, behind a Filters button on phones, with the active filters shown above the results and a Clear all link.

Each result shows its title, the path of its address, a snippet with the searched words marked, and, when there is one, a picture, a date and a price. The number of results and the time the search took appear at the right of the row above them.