Comments on: Google Custom Search and Wordpress Integration

By: Pdazzler

Pdazzler — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:19:25 +0000

I’m new to blogging and to wordpress. I have the latest version on wp and the latest version of Atahualpa. I was going to install the Google Custom Search plugin but got a caution that the plugin – had not been tested with latest version(s) and may not work. Does anyone know if it will install and work properly with WP V. 2.9.1 and Atahualpa V 3.4.5? Not being a techie I don’t want to tackle more than I can handle…..

Thanks,
Pdazzler

By: DigitalSOju

DigitalSOju — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:26:50 +0000

I think the latest version of your plugin is broken. I cannot get it to work whatsoever. It doesn’t even create a /search/ page properly either. Also it would be nice if you had the comments activated on the actual plugin page.

By: Snettsblog

Snettsblog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:21:35 +0000

I don’t know if this is only in Wordpress MU but when writing the page it changes the permalinks for the entire site. Therefore the other post links lead to the search page instead of its respective page. What is the way around this?

By: Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:03:06 +0000

Hi,

I have tried installing the plugin but even after the installation my search is pointing to "?s=" and not "/search/". I tried to go through the manual way but when i created a page then the permalink for the same is "www.geekride.com/index.php/search" and not "www.geekride.com/search/" .... i m unable to remove index.php (seems like the latest version of wordpress is not allowing us to do that).

So now my search is working like this only "www.geekride.com/index.php/search/" and in which i don't want index.php. Any help will be really appreciated.

There is one more issue i m facing. I m getting a lots of google search results like this "www.geekride.com/index.php/search/mysql+php" but i m not getting any results for the same. Thanx in advance for all the help.

By: David Ker

David Ker — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:36:50 +0000

Aleem,

http://www.ethnolinks.com/?s=Nyungwe

With the plugin installed I’m still getting the /?s= result and also it brings up a blank page. If I search again with the box on the search result page it then works.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks.

By: Aleem

Aleem — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:56:26 +0000

This error occurs when running PHP4. The plugin supports only PHP5.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:22:38 +0000

Everything installed fine and I placed my GSE code into the plugins settings, but when I go to search, it finds nothing.

Do you have to submit a sitemap to google and have your pages indexed for this to work properly?

By: Farhan Rehman

Farhan Rehman — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:12:43 +0000

Hey, like Umair, I too got

"giving me this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/hostse/public_html/example.com/wp-content/plugins/google-custom-search-for-wordpress/GoogleCSE.php on line 13"

Any suggestions on how to make it work properly for WP 2.8.x?

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:52:01 +0000

Thank you for the easy explanation. Works wonderfully for me except for grabbing the header.
I end up with the search page topped with this line:
“// these two lines get the theme page initialization code and header require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); get_header(); ?> ”
What am I doing wrong?

(I opted for the first method as I am unsure of what step 3. of the second method refers to when it says “Go to Write -> Page”)

By: umair

umair — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:06:28 +0000

giving me this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/hostse/public_html/example.com/wp-content/plugins/google-custom-search-for-wordpress/GoogleCSE.php on line 13