title: Magento: Can't make the search bar appear
body: <p>I'm trying to make a search bar appear and I can't.
  Not only in the header but also in any page if I try to paste the basic search bar code, nothing will appear, can someone tell me where should I check to see if I'm missing any code?
  in that case, what code and where should I add to finally be able to integrate a search bar in my header / home page or wherever?</p>
  
  <p>{{block type="core/template" name="top.search" as="topSearch" template="catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml"}}
  Note: this code didn't work in any page whatsoever</p>
  
  <p>Also, for some reason I seem to be missing a lot of options from plugins and magento itself (Look at hot the banner slider only has one option and when I try to edit a Slider I also get alot less options than what the plugin has to offer)
  <a href="http://screencast.com/t/hsH9scDo4" rel="nofollow">http://screencast.com/t/hsH9scDo4</a></p>