Comments on: How to integrate Google search into WordPress site

By: Roshith

Roshith — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:36:44 +0000

Thanks, i am searching for such a search in wordpress

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:50:18 +0000

@Peter Seems to work nicely! You might also play with color/theme settings in CSE (there had been some improvements to those since this post) so that it fits with rest of site better. Also I am planning to implement some advanced custom view features in CSE for this blog (new theme live at last) so stay tuned for possible posts on that. :)

By: Peter Netz Lassen

Peter Netz Lassen — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:39:47 +0000

Hi Rarst,

I added the WordPress dirs directly into the CSE Google Custom Search Engine(Exclude section)

And also blocked other robots with the robots.txt file! Thx for reminding me!!

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By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:35:56 +0000

@Self Discovery

Yep, Google indexes a lot of not so obvious stuff if it can.

Did you add these exclusions in CSE settings? It might be better to create robots.txt and block sensitive parts from search engines completely.

By: Self Discovery

Self Discovery — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:08:42 +0000

Hi,

After install … I tested it from a normal front page (non WP)
And the search found some FLASH in a plugin (VIPERS) and some stuff in my themes…

So I excluded the paths
/wp-Admin/*
/wp-content/plugins/*
/wp-content/themes/*
/wp-content/uploads/*
and
/wp-content/secret-stuff/*
/wp-content/sell-stuff-mp3/*

I also added exclude
/blog/config*
and /config*

Is this correct – Alone the line and is there more dir that I need to exclude?

Peter

By: Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware

Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:55:06 +0000

Yea, that was the function I was trying but it starts showing sidebar as well. I have contacted my theme designer to see what’s wrong. Thanks for offering to help :)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:01:47 +0000

@Ishan

I think it should be get_footer(); Drop me email if you want me to look into it properly. :)

By: Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware

Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:11:49 +0000

You are right – the search results do not have footer. I tried using post_footer() function (or something like that), but it started showing sidebar as well. I did not get a chance to research that which function should I use to just show footer and not sidebar. Anything that you know at top of your head ?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:40:55 +0000

@Ishan

Shows nicely at your blog, but I think you lost footer. :) At least it is missing for me in search results page.

By: Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware

Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:33:20 +0000

Today I finally decided to take the plunge, and show the results within my website. Came to this post, and followed steps closely. Got stuck on “Set up search results page” step ( I am terrible in PHP). Then, found following link that explains this step extremely easily:

http://www.lancelhoff.com/search-results-within-wordpress/

.. and voila, I am all set. It looks beautiful :)