Wordpress Search Action

This action will use the standard Wordpress search API to search for different terms and display the results as chat text or as a carousel.

Settings

The action uses the following settings:

Setting	Description	Parsed
Base URL	The base url of your Wordpress website. Like https://www.mysite.com.	✅
Consumer Key	If required by your Wordpress configuration, paste here the consumer key.	✅
Consumer Secret	If required by your Wordpress configuration, paste here the consumer secret.	✅
Search Terms	The terms you want to use to search your website	✅
No Results Text	The text you wish to display whenever the search yields no results	✅
Max Results Count	The maximum number of items to be returned by the search	✅
Display Mode	The action used by Connect to render the search results.	⛔

Remarks

By default a Wordpress website may not have standard REST API enabled for searching. If you use this action on a website without REST API, it will fail.

Depending on your Wordpress version REST API enabling steps may vary. This guide can help you in setting up and configure your Wordpress website for search.

Trigger

This action does not trigger any event.

Variables

This action produces the following variables:

Variable	Description
wp_search_count	The total number of items found. The number may be lower but never higher than Max Results Count

Availability

Channel specific availability follows the table below:

Channel	Availability
Facebook	Fully Available.
WhatsApp	Fully Available.
Telegram	Fully Available.
Web	Fully Available.
Alexa	Fully Available.
Google Assistant	Fully Available.
Slack	Fully Available.
API	Fully Available.

This action can be used only inside interactions and not as child of other actions. This action requires a Premium Account to be used on a live chatbot.