Carbon Based Menu Search

Carbon Based Menu Search adds a search icon to the menus you choose. Click it to open a full-width search bar.

Features

• Inline SVG icon – Default search icon, with no Font Awesome required.
• Other icon sets – Optional Dashicons or Font Awesome icon classes.
• Menu targeting – Target menus by registered menu, manual ID/slug, or menu CSS class.
• Insert position – Insert search at the start, the end, or after the Nth top-level item.
• What it searches – Search the whole site, posts and pages, WooCommerce products, or selected post types.
• Panel behaviour – Optional close control on the open panel, and an optional Ctrl/Cmd+K shortcut.
• Appearance – Colours, panel background image (with position), animation, z-index, and custom CSS.
• Placement outside menus – Shortcode [cbsms_search_toggle] and a Menu Search Toggle block.

Settings are under Carbon Based > Menu Search.

Who is this for?

• Sites that want search in a classic WordPress menu.
• Stores that want to search products, posts, or the whole site from that menu.
• Themes that need a shortcode or block when the menu is not a classic menu.

User guide

Setup and menu placement are covered in the Menu Search user guide.

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