Site Search

A search form wired to WordPress's built-in search, styled to match the site — as an inline field or an icon that expands. Most useful in a header or footer, but it works anywhere. Like every block in the library, it is a second authoring surface, not a second renderer: the canvas preview and the front end are both produced by the Site Search element — the same server-side code as the page builder — so the output is identical either way.

Options

Select the block and open the Settings (block) tab; the whole sidebar is generated from the element's option schema, so it stays in step with the page builder.

Option	What it does
Style (style)	Inline field, or an icon that expands into a field.
Placeholder (placeholder)	The prompt text shown in the empty field.

The block also opts into WordPress Margin / Padding (and, where it makes sense, alignment), which inherit the site's design system from theme.json.

Sample content

A block stores only what you change as one upOptions object; the element's declared defaults fill in the rest at render time. The demo above is:

<!-- wp:unysonplus/site-search {"upOptions":{"placeholder":"Search the docs…"}} /-->

The site-search element

The block and the page builder's Site Search element are two doors onto the same code. Its full option, markup and behaviour reference is documented there.