Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, searching for a rental item by keywords is not allowed in the front-end pages, widgets/blocks or Shortcodes, I’m sorry. This functions is actually missing, because the plugin focuses on starting the booking process by asking the users to select the rental dates and times. The search results page will then display all the available rental items with the related rental costs, but searching for a rental item by name or keywords is not a function available.
As we said, the plugin is more oriented towards booking features rather than on catalogue/browsing features. The “Items List” page (Shortcode) will actually list all of your rental items, eventually filtered by category, but searching for an item by name or keywords is not allowed.
You could definitely add a custom “search by keywords” feature to your website, but this would require a custom coded plugin capable of displaying an input text field and of making a search directly on the database tables of VikRentItems. It would probably not be possible to implement such search facility within an existing plugin, unless it allows you to browse the database tables of your WordPress installation.
This is mainly because the rental item records are not stored within the WordPress native post-type database table, but they are rather stored inside a dedicated database table to VikRentItems, which gets created upon the plugin installation.
The VikWP Team