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.).

Replace the search bar with a third-party one

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Falco (Falco) August 27, 2021, 3:48pm 4

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

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Replace the search bar with a third-party one

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