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How to Add a Blog Search Bar in Shopify Sense Theme

Sense doesn't include a search box scoped only to the blog — here's what's native, and how to get true blog-only search.

Steps

  1. Sense's header search icon opens a store-wide predictive search that includes blog articles, alongside products, pages, and collections.
  2. There's no section in Sense's theme editor for a search box scoped to just the blog.
  3. For a small blog, the header search is usually enough since your articles still turn up in it.
  4. If you want a search bar that lives directly on the blog page and only searches articles — plus insight into what readers are actually searching for — an app like Blog Filter & Blog Search HUE adds that as a section you place on the blog template.

Add a dedicated blog search once your article count grows large enough that browsing by tag alone stops being comfortable.

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