Search is not consistent in Dashboard

[Travel_girl]

In the WordPress-Backend are multiple Search-fields and those are all different.

For a better User Experience it would be better, if their would look and work the same way.

Search for

• Posts
• Pages
• Media
• Plugins
• Themes

I suggest to have the search field in the upper right corner with an button "Search xy" like in the Post version. In this way it would be easier to navigate.

Also when you want to install new plugins or themes, while you are typing the keywords, the search starts automatically and have wrong results sometimes.

[Travel_girl]

Search Posts

[Travel_girl]

Search Pages

[Travel_girl]

Search Media

[Travel_girl]

plugin search

[Travel_girl]

Plugin search for install

[Travel_girl]

theme search

[Travel_girl]

Theme search for install

[ocean90]

Hi @Travel_girl, thanks for the ticket and the screenshots. There are already a few tickets about this, main ticket seems to be #31818.

#25103

Submit buttons on form fields in the Add Media panel

#31818

Uniform Search Form Display/Experience

#34881

Invalid HTML around the input field for searching themes

#37353

Unify look and feel of search forms and results across the admin

#38211

Interference of AJAX search with input field auto-complete

[Travel_girl]

@ocean90 okay, thanks and sorry for the douple tickets. How do you find the other tickets? I was searching a bit and could not find them.

[ocean90]

Duplicate of #31818.

Replying to Travel_girl:

How do you find the other tickets?

I remembered that @afercia added a keyword to those tickets. 😉

[afercia]

@Travel_girl you're welcome to join the discussion on #31818, to be honest there's no progress on that ticket since a while but it's definitely on the accessibility team radar. Also, a11y meetings happen on Mondays at 18 UTC if you're interested :)
I'd say the best way to search previous tickets on Trac is using Google, prepending the search with site:core.trac.wordpress.org as the Trac search results are often not so ideal.

[Travel_girl]

@afercia thank you for your answers - will see you in #31818 :-)