Predictive search
Predictive search
Predictive search shows matching products, collections, pages and articles while the customer is still typing in the search field. You'll find its settings under Theme settings > Predictive search in the theme editor. To open theme settings, click the gear (settings) icon in the left sidebar of the theme editor.
Settings
- Enable predictive search: Show results while the customer types. When it is off, the search field still works, but customers only see results after they press Enter, on the Search page.
Searchable properties
Choose which details of your products and content the search looks in. These choices apply both to the predictive results in the Search overlay and to the full search results page.
- Include author: Search the author name of blog articles.
- Include body: Search the description of products and the content of pages and articles. This finds more results, but also less relevant ones.
- Include tag: Search product and article tags.
- Include title: Search the titles of products, collections, pages and articles. On by default.
The search only looks in the properties you tick. If you untick all four, Shopify's default search fields are used instead.
Tags are a good way to make products findable by words that are not in their title, such as gift or vegan. Tick Include tag and add those words as product tags.