How To Automatically Add A Search Field To Your WordPress Menu

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Implementing WordPress Search

Many WordPress themes do not include the option to add a search field to the WordPress menu automatically. In themes which do, the option is accessible most of the time through additional widget spaces. But what if your WordPress theme does not provide the widget space to include a search field in your navigational menu?

Below is a snippet which will generate an automatic search field based on your themes search settings in the navigational menu for any WordPress website.

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 Copy and Paste the code snippet below into your themes functions.php file.
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add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items','add_search_box', 10, 2);
 function add_search_box($items, $args) {

ob_start();
 get_search_form();
 $searchform = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();

$items .= '

' . $searchform . '

';

return $items;
 }

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