By sammyman on

I have checked all of my themes and I don't have a search block in Drupal 7. I am using the latest revision (dev) version. I have been upgrading the core since it came out, so I am guessing this was a glitch that was fixed, but wasn't fixed for me as I upgraded for some reason.

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sammyman commented

I still have yet to see a search block in drupal 7. I have tried many themes and cleared the cache and rebuilt themes and have never seen a search block in the block page.

dhaeng_ilham’s picture

dhaeng_ilham commented

- Just uninstall the search module!
- clear the cache!
- then Install the search module again!

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kvnlnt commented

I'm drupal noobsauce...I was having this same issue and could not resolve it even after reading this and a million other posts. I then realized I was simply disabling and re-enabling the search module....not uninstalling it. Disable the module first, then go to the Uninstall tab...it will then show up...then you can then uninstall and reinstall!...at which point it will show up in your blocks.

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seanburlington commented

If the dashboard module is enabled it claims the search form block as it's own

This block is then removed from the regular blocks interface

If you remove the search form from the dashboard via http://localhost/admin/dashboard/configure it should become available in the blocks page.

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IreOke commented

Thank you so much Sean, this was driven me crazy!!!

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rubyji
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I knew it had to be something like this. I hope this behavior doesn't carry over to D8!

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MRubin commented

If you want all visitors to your site to see the search form, be sure to set the permissions correctly. Otherwise the default settings only show it to an administrator.

To set:
- Home » Administration » People > (PERMISSIONS tab)
- Scroll down to "Search".
- Check the box "Use search" for ANONYMOUS USER.
- Click the "Save permissions" button on the bottom of the page.

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bzsim commented

This happened to me too. My search form was not in the list of available blocks. I had to disable the Search module, go to the Uninstall tab and check "search", then go back and re-enable the search module.

I had a fresh install of Drupal 7, but copied over an existing sites folder from a previous Drupal 7 installation so I wonder if there was a conflict that caused this?

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3pinespro commented

My search block is showing just fine, however, the searches never find anything! I'm a noob here, so if you have any suggestions please try to keep the techospeak to a minimum. I'm still trying to get my head around the Drupal terminology.

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hannanxp commented

just go to admin/config/search/settings, hit the re-index button and run drupal cron