Hi Lissa,

Sorry to hear about the problem you are having.

We will definitely resolve the issue and display the search form on the menu.

Have you created the menu using elementor plugin?

If yes then could you please tell me which element you are using to display it by sharing its screenshot?

Best regards,
Ivory Search Support

Thank you very much – the speed you have done this is really appreciated.

You are most welcome, I’m glad I was able to help you with this matter. There is no obligation but by your kind words I wonder if I could trouble you to leave a review based on this experience here:

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-search-to-menu/reviews/?filter=5

I’d really appreciate that. 🙂

And if I can be of any further assistance please don’t hesitate to ask.

I will need to do a little research into creating a child them but I’m sure I will find this the perfect solution.

If you use child theme then the custom code will persist even after updating the theme.

You will find more information about the child theme on the below pages.

Child Themes

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/01/create-customize-wordpress-child-theme/

I have implemented the feature in the latest released plugin version 4.4.11

To use the feature, please update to the latest plugin version and then add the below code in the functions.php file of your child theme.

function func_is_exclude_child(){
	return true;
}
add_filter( 'is_exclude_child', 'func_is_exclude_child' );

Please let me know how it works for you.

Also, please note that if you have configured the search form to search images and exclude any post or page then If you enable the above option then the images or attachments attached to the excluded post/page will also get excluded from the search.

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

It seems from your shared screenshot that you have configured the plugin settings correctly and it should exclude the Staff Only forum from search.

I have tested it on my test site and it’s working fine for me using the latest version of the Ivory Search plugin.

Are you searching the forum name or topics contained in the forum?

If you are searching for the topics then you have to also exclude the topics.

Best regards,
Ivory Search Support

@jingael Have you created the menu on your website using any page builder?

Have you configured the plugin settings to display search form in menu as described above?

Could you please share your site URL where it is not displaying so that I can troubleshoot it?