# Add forum search results to WordPress search
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782
**Category:** Administrators
**Tags:** how-to
**Created:** [2017 年 8 月 25 日午後 2:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782 "2017-08-25T14:15:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [2017 年 8 月 25 日午後 2:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/1 "2017-08-25T14:15:31Z")
Hello all. I finally found a little slice of time to try pulling search results from Discourse into Wordpress’s search. The gist is that I created a separate script which uses the Discourse API to do a search query and then I just include this as an iframe in the Wordpress search template.
This may not be the ideal solution for everyone because it show the Discourse results in a separate column from the Wordpress results, not all mixed together.
Here’s a screenshot of how it looks. The forum results are in the grey column next to the Wordpress results:
**Step 1:**
Create a standalone php script called something like discoursesearch.php and upload it wherever you want to your server:
```
0 )
echo 'Forum Discussions
';
for ( $i=0; $i<$num_results; $i++ ) {
// see here for all the fields that can be parsed from the search results http://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Search
$topic_title = $all_topics[$i]['title'];
$result_url = $url_base . 't/' . $all_topics[$i]['slug'] . '/' . $all_posts[$i]['topic_id'] . '/' . $all_posts[$i]['post_number'];
$blurb = str_ireplace($search_term,''.$search_term.'',$all_posts[$i]['blurb']);
$username = $all_posts[$i]['username'];
$avatar = $url_base . str_replace('{size}','30',$all_posts[$i]['avatar_template']);
echo '
' . $topic_title . '' . '
' . $blurb . '
';
}
echo 'See all forum discussions about: '.$search_term.'
';
}
?>
```
**Step 2:**
Then open up the search template file for your Wordpress theme and put this where ever you’d like the search results to appear:
``
That’s it. A bit quick and dirty but it does the job. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [2017 年 8 月 25 日午後 2:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/2 "2017-08-25T14:36:14Z")
Great!
(probably want to remove that hardcoded URL thingy there 😉
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [2017 年 8 月 25 日午後 2:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/3 "2017-08-25T14:40:02Z")
Note: this doesn’t show the threads for me due to the X-Frame options
> [@Discourse not shown in iframe](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-shown-in-iframe/26970):
>
> Aloha Communtiy, i am trying to put discourse in an iframe since i don’t have free wildcards at my dyndny hoster. I run my main apache server at port 80 and the docker containing discourse redirects to port 82. the page i am talking about is here: [http://archy.no-ip.org/forum/](http://archy.no-ip.org/forum/) instead of the discourse page at [http://archy.no-ip.org:81](http://archy.no-ip.org:81) it just shows the blank container. i first thought that it might be a problem with iframe to shown pages which don’t use port 80 or 443 but since another test …
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [2017 年 8 月 25 日午後 2:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/4 "2017-08-25T14:42:47Z")
Thanks @Bas! I’m embarrassed by my sloppiness. haha! 😃
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [2017 年 8 月 25 日午後 2:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/5 "2017-08-25T14:44:41Z")
@Bas, perhaps that search api code will be handy anyway. It could be put right into the search template rather than via an iframe. I kinda like the iframe because it doesn’t slow down the search page at all.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2017 年 9 月 6 日午後 8:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/6 "2017-09-06T20:04:26Z")
> [@lkramer](#):
>
> \`
but it looks like for both if you, the \ part is not being evaluated as php but is being passed into the script as a whole. Feel free to send me a **Private Message** here with the contents of your search.php file and I’ll see if I can figure out why this is happening. (So just copy and paste the code in search.php for me to see.)
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### Author:  [@Francois\_Douville](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Francois_Douville)
#### Post date: [2018 年 8 月 3 日午後 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-forum-search-results-to-wordpress-search/68782/20 "2018-08-03T12:12:14Z")
Ok @lkramer told me that she does not have time for that.
I know my error. I didn’t put this code in my search.php file :
```plaintext
```
I thought it was on my page builder (ElementorPro) using HTML :
So, I have 2 search.php files, one for my page builder and one for my theme. Which one do I use to put the code in?
Thanks anyone who can help me!
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