by Scott Reilly
4.7 (16 reviews)
Disable Search
Disable the built-in front-end search capabilities of WordPress.
Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 6.9.4)
v2.1.1
Current Version v2.1.1
Updated 11 months ago
Last Update on 14 Apr, 2025
Refreshed 6 hours ago
Last Refreshed on
Rank
#876
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Active Installs
40K+
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KW Avg Position
5
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Downloads
420.3K
+24 today
Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
94%
Review 4.7 out of 5
4.7
(16 reviews)
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- Version
- 2.1.1
- Last Updated
- Apr 14, 2025
- Requires WP
- 4.6+
- Tested Up To
- 6.8
- PHP Version
- N/A
- Author
- Scott Reilly
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- Reviews
- 16
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Disable Search
No.
No. This only disables WordPress's capabilities with regards to search. Search engines index your site and search their index of your site. They do not make use of your site's native search capabilities. You can only prevent search engines from searching your site by blocking their web crawlers and purging their cache of your site (which is well beyond the scope of this plugin).
The most likely cause for this is a theme that has the markup for the search form hardcoded into one or more of the theme's template files (excluding searchform.php). This is generally frowned upon nowadays (the theme should be calling get_search_form() or using searchform.php to get the search form). There is no way for this plugin to prevent this hardcoded form from being displayed.
No, not at this time, though it is feature being considered. (In truth, custom coding could certainly be used to achieve this, but that obviously requires coding knowledge.)
Yes. This plugin does not collect, store, or disseminate any information from any users or site visitors.
Yes. The tests are not packaged in the release .zip file or included in plugins.svn.wordpress.org, but can be found in the plugin's GitHub repository.