Hello there, Thanks for clicking on this. I am quite new to Discourse, and I’m looking for some guidance. What is the best way to either: Replace the Discourse search bar with a third-party one If the above isn’t possible, add a third-party search bar elsewhere within a theme I understand this m…

Are you looking for something like this? [image] Search with Bing/Yahoo/DuckDuckGo support When you’re looking for a thread and no results are found, you’ll be offered to search using Google. I think that you should be able to change the search engine (in preferences) from…

Thank you for your reply! I tested the theme component in question, and while it looks interesting, it isn’t what I am looking for. I want to completely replace the Discourse search bar with a third-party search bar (that isn’t Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.).

The Add Algolia search to your Discourse plugin does exactly that. You can use it for inspiration.

Replace the search bar with a third-party one

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anon73664359 August 27, 2021, 3:31pm 2

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Replace the search bar with a third-party one

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