Make Webflow form submission redirect and perform a search in Wordpress

wdmorley · March 22, 2018, 11:35am

Hi there,

I am using Webflow to create a new marketing site for my startup and I want to use the Webflow standard form to pass through search terms and perform a search on my Wordpress site (which will be hosted on a subdomain eventually).

How I want it to work:

User lands on http://conservation-guide.webflow.io/
User uses the Webflow form in the top left of screen to type their search and hit enter - this is a form element not a search bar because I want them to search on my wordpress site
Webflow redirects to Projects and appends the search term to the end. Spaces need to change to +

NB: I want to keep the marketing site on Webflow; I don’t want to convert it to Wordpress.

Can anybody help me achieve this?

Share link: https://preview.webflow.com/preview/conservation-guide?preview=4973800c45788249a9a6138334132880

Many thanks,

Will

samliew · March 22, 2018, 9:59pm

Change the form action to https://conservationguide.org/projects/ and remove the class w-form from the form element (after you export and convert to a Wordpress theme)

wdmorley · March 22, 2018, 10:08pm

Hi samliew, thanks for your answer. However, I want to keep the marketing site on Webflow; I don’t want to convert it to Wordpress.

Is that possible?

Thanks

wdmorley · March 22, 2018, 10:11pm

OK! Any ideas how I’d get started on that?

I’m not even sure what language it needs to be in

wdmorley · March 30, 2018, 12:48pm

Hi, in case anyone wants to know how to do this some time in the future, I figured it out!

Set the field name of your search field to search_keywords or whatever gets appended to perform the search on your page
Set the form action to the search results page, minus the ?, so in my case https://conservationguide.org/projects/
Set the form method to GET
Voila!

Sabrina119 · August 10, 2023, 11:26am

Hi, I encountered the same situation.
So what I am trying to do is users will search on the form and be redirected to a page with CMS content that matches their keywords.
How should I do it? This is my setting right now