I upgraded to BL3 and the search icon produces a page that is devoid of my template settings, just a big blank page size box, along with an entry field. See it on my website by going to to search icon. Why is my template not showing up?
What you see on the web page is just a pop-up. The selected template is used on the search page where the results are shown. Or you can go directly there by using martyhulsebos.com/backlight/search
Is there any way to bypass the popup and go directly to martyhulsebos.com/backlight/search from the search icon?
You could put the same Font Awesome icon in your nav menu and link it directly to the search page.
Using CSS, Rod?
Where do I insert that link, Daniel?
No, just add the icon code in the menu
See this on using Font Awesome in Backlight
I would add it in the menu using the menu designer as I did on my page.
I understand linking it to a page, but what do I do to turn a page into Search page. Is there code that goes into the page copy?
Also, I still don’t understand how to have the search icon in the upper right bypass the popup and go directly to the search page.
Thanks for your help!
you can’t
Do you mean you want to insert a search form into a page?
Yes, I guess that would be it. I didn’t realize it was a form. But can you tell me how to do it? Where is this in the Docs?
You can just go to your search page and look at the source code. Copy the search form code and paste it into your page content area.
I think the code in this article still applies to BL3
Ok, I copied the search form code into the page content area of my search page. The page shows “Search Galleries”, but no entry field. Is it possible a change is needed for BL3?
I don’t think so.
Did you try copying the form code from the existing search page on your site?
Can you provide a link?
change this line:
<div id="search">
to this
<div id="search" style="display:block;">
(I just updated that post to reflect the addition)
Is there a particular reason that you’re creating a separate search page rather than the one supplied in Backlight?
The one in Backlight is only an icon in the upper right, which I feel might not be noticed. I wanted it to be part of my navigation. I put it in a submenu right underneath Image Galleries. Now it’s in two locations, and more likely to be seen. The icon in the upper right, however, still leads to a pop up. I’d like it to go to the same link as the one in my submenu. Any idea how to change that link?
That is just the Quick Search.
You also have the built in search page found here: