But is it possiple also to have the search box appear directly in a page or post? Either only on the page or on the page and in the sidebar. And can it be inserted directly in the editor?

Thanks, Michael

I used searchform.php and some css for implementing code into my blog.

Let me know you think.
http://solreka.com/blog

Once again, many thanks for the great post.

I didn’t have one, either. So I made one. This was easy. I could not figure out how to paste the code in my sidebar.php file. WP looks for a searchform.php file before defaulting to whatever it defaults to.

In my webhosting account’s control panel, I opened the file manager, then went to this directory:
public_html/your_wp_directory_name/wp-content/themes/your_theme_name
Create a new file here
Open file
paste in above code
Save

This can now be modified from WP dashboard (Appearance > Editor > your_theme_name > searchform.php

Thanks for the snippet!

Thank you for sharing this great Code!
Very lean solution!
One thing that might help other users:
My theme had no searchform.php, so I just saved your code as searchform.php, put it into my theme folder and it works greatly!!!
I´m not sure if this works for older WP-versions, though.
I think I read somewhere that it´s a new feature of WP 2.7.1 that automatically searches for a file named searchform.php, but, as I said, I´m not sure if that´s true.

Thanks to you again, greetings, MadMax

I’m using WP as CMS and works fine everything BUT, when calling the search function having a little trouble, that is: My site is a multi language site, when searching a item, it still bring me to the default language. i have dutch and english, the default language is dutch, so when someone switch to english and want to search for something the result page shows in dutch, i need to add a something like : if( isset($_GET['lang']) ){echo ‘&lang=’.$_GET[lang]; }