# Command Palette – Find Anything, Anywhere in FlyWP

Source: https://flywp.com/docs/getting-started/command-palette-find-anything-anywhere-in-flywp/

FlyWP includes a global Command Palette available from **every page** — not just while you’re inside a site. Open it from anywhere in your dashboard to jump straight to a server, a site, a domain, or any setting, without clicking through menus.

## What it does

Instead of navigating Servers → your server → your site → Security → scrolling to find Basic Auth, you can open the palette and just type “basic auth” — it takes you directly to that setting.

The palette searches across:

- **Navigation** — every page in the sidebar, for both servers and sites (Overview, Settings, Security, Caching, SFTP, Deployment, SSL, and more)
- **Specific settings and sections** within those pages — things like Firewall Protection, Object Cache, PHP version, Redis, SMTP, WordPress core updates, and dozens of other named options
- **Your servers, sites, and domains** — search by name, domain, or even a server’s IP address
- **Common synonyms** — “invoice” finds Billing, “patchstack” finds FlySecurity Pro, “https” or “renew certificate” find SSL

## How to open it

The Command Palette opens from anywhere in the FlyWP dashboard — the dashboard home, your servers list, a specific server, a specific site, team settings, or your profile. Three ways to bring it up:

- Click the **Search…** box in the header or sidebar
- Press **⌘K** (Mac) or **Ctrl+K** (Windows/Linux)
- Press / — as long as you’re not currently typing in another field

![Image](https://flywp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image-3-1024x473.png)

With an empty query, you’ll see your **Recently visited** pages along with a few **Suggestions** to help you get around.

## Using search

Start typing and results update instantly, split into groups:

- **Menu** — top-level pages and navigation entries
- **Servers / Sites / Domains** — your actual infrastructure, matched by name, domain, or IP
- **Pages & options** — specific settings within a page

![Image](https://flywp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image-4-1024x451.png)

Use ↑ and ↓ to move between results, **↵ (Enter)** to open the highlighted one, and **Esc** to close the dialog at any time. Search is flexible with partial matches and related terms — you don’t need to type a setting’s exact name.

### Drilling down

You can search for a page inside a *specific* site directly — type something like “marketing-site settings” and the palette takes you straight to that site’s Settings page, skipping the usual Server → Site → Page navigation.

## Scoping to a server or site

If you want to search *within* one server or site instead of across your whole account, press **Tab** or **Enter** on that server or site’s result row to turn it into a chip. Once a chip is applied, only that resource’s pages and children are searchable.

![Image](https://flywp.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image-5-1024x463.png)

- Chips stack up to two levels: `server › site`.
- With an empty query, a chip lists its children — chip a server with 8 sites and you’ll see all 8.
- Press **⌦ (Backspace)** on an empty query to pop the most recent chip. Backspace while you still have text in the query just edits the text.
- Click a chip’s × to remove it — removing the server chip also removes any site chipped underneath it.
- Changed your mind? The **“Search everywhere for ‘…’”** option clears your chips and keeps whatever you’d typed, so you can broaden the search without retyping.

## A few examples

| Search for… | Takes you to |
| --- | --- |
| `basic auth` | Security → HTTP Basic Authentication |
| `redis` | Caching page |
| `clone or transfer` | Settings → Clone or Transfer Site |
| `xmlrpc` | Security → Content and Protocol Restrictions |
| `smtp` | Email settings |
| `wp cron` | Cron configuration |
| `let's encrypt` | SSL Certificates |
| `192.168.1.1` (a server’s IP) | That server |

## A note on site status

If a site is sleeping or being deleted, most of its settings are temporarily unavailable — in that case, search will only surface that site’s Overview page, since that’s the only page you can access until the site is active again.

## Notes

- Search only shows results for servers, sites, and settings you actually have access to, based on your role and permissions — you won’t see resources from other teams or pages you’re not allowed to open.
- Your recently visited pages are stored locally in your browser, so they’re specific to the device you’re using, and specific to the account you’re logged in as.
- If you run into a setting that search doesn’t find, or a term that doesn’t turn up the page you expect, let our support team know — we’re always refining the search index.

## Next Steps

- [FlySecurity Pro](https://flywp.com/docs/site/security/flysecurity-pro/) — one of the things you can jump to straight from the palette by searching “patchstack”
- [Deploy from Git](https://flywp.com/docs/site/deploy-from-git-to-flywp-servers-supports-bedrock/)