I have a blog on Wordpress.com and I want to add a link to a search page as a menu item. However, I can't seem to find how to do this. What I have found so far is how to make a search template but I don't think I can do that on Wordpress.com. Mainly my blog has a title, a menu of links beneath it and then the loop of posts. I do not have any side columns. I have experience with fully hosted Wordpress installs and have written plugins but in this case my blog is located at Wordpress.com and the UI is somewhat different. I don't know how to do this simple task. Please be gentle. FYI:I also tried creating a new page with a search form inside of it but when I view the published page the form disappears (when I look at the DOM it there's no form but span tag). Here is my code:  <form class=search-form role=search action=https://myblog.wordpress.com/ method=get>   <label>       <span class=screen-reader-text>Search for:</span>       <input class=search-field name=s type=search value= placeholder=Search  />   </label>   <input class=search-submit type=submit value=Search /></form>UPDATE:It looks Wordpress.com does not allow forms inside postsUsers of Wordpress.com-hosted blogs, please note that they do not  permit placing forms on your blog. You may want to have AWeber host  your form instead, and simply provide a link to the form on your blog.  sourceSo if that's right then my HTML search form is being stripped out. I can't believe that Wordpress doesn't have a search page. 
Creating a search menu item to a search page
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