Scary Worlds

An adventure with my new website

#WordPress search: if you can't code or you can't pay an expensive plugin, there's no easy way to get different search forms for different areas on a web site.

Let's assume you have two article areas, one concerning Italy and one about America – in Italian and English respectively.

You create two headers, two footers, two sidebars. All set, without any plugin. But obstacle comes for search! The native block won't filter contents accordingly so writing “computer” keyword for example, will take you to “America” and “Italy” sections without any difference, confusing readers.

You even might land into an unwanted article and, because of the different headers in the other area, you might get stuck and won't immediately go back.

This doesn't involve accessibility directly, but #usability does. And this would become a bad experience for the reader.

Other plugins promise to satisfy those needs, such as Relevanssi, Ivory Search, Searchwp or WP Extendes Search. But they have no #accessibility in mind or no #gutenberg block, they mostly rely on #shortcodes and “function.php” making it quite difficult to set up.

That's why I opened a #github issue as a feature request in Gutenberg editor's repository.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/62221

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