How can I disable and remove the search this site bar on SharePoint server 2019?

Question

How can I hide or remove the "Search this site" bar from my site? Also, if kept what does the bar grant visitors access to? (Can they see files that that they don't have permissions for? Can they find pages where phrases or words are used?).

Answer 1

How to Exclude site from search SharePoint? Click on “Search and offline availability” under the Search group on the Site settings page. Choose “No” for Allow this site to appear in the search results option. Click on “OK” to save your changes.

https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2015/06/exclude-sharepoint-site-list-from-search-results.html

Answer 2

Hi @Tevon2.0 ,

If you want to hide the "Search this site" bar, you need to hide the left navigation bar at the same time.Unfortunately, there is currently no OOTB way to hide the "Search this site" bar alone.

If you keep the "Search this site" column, visitors can only search files for which they have permission above "read". Other files not granted permission cannot be searched. Other files not granted permission cannot be searched.

The effect of hiding the whole left navigation bar is as follows:

Here are steps：

1.Site Settings->Look and Feel->Navigation Elements.

2.Un-check "Enable Quick Launch" option.

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