WordPress Google Search

January 16, 2013

WordPress Google Search Plugin

Add a Custom Google Site Search with no setup. Just drag and drop a widget and you're done.

Easily setup a full text site search powered by Google.

Normally to setup a Google Custom Search on your site you have to sign up on Google and create the search index. This plugin will do it automatically using Google’s Linked Custom Search Engines

Features:

  • Works with any WordPress Theme
  • No need to setup a Google Custom Search
  • No Google account required
  • Search results show up on the default search result page.
  • Just add the “Google Site Search” widget to your theme.
  • Does not replace the default WordPress search. It runs along with it. Use both if you want.

This plugin is built and maintained by SeedProd

Installation

Installation

  1. Click Plugins > Add New > search for WordPress Google Custom Search
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  3. Click Appearance > Widgets > Drag the Google Search widget to a widget area.

Screenshots

  1. Just add the widget to your theme.

    Just add the widget to your theme.

  2. Search results show up your themes default search results page. Boom!

    Search results show up your themes default search results page. Boom!

FAQ

  • Why are ads showing on my search results?

This is because Google puts ads on search results by default. Read more

  • No search result are displaying

This mean that no pages from you site are in Google index. Learn how to submit your site.

Changelog

1.0.1

  • Fix: If themes uses the_excert hook into that
  • Added a body class

1.0.0

  • Initial Release

Details

  • Version: 1.0.1
  • Active installations: 60
  • WordPress Version: 3
  • Tested up to: 3.5.0

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