permalink<\/q> has to match the URL you entered in the last step:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wp-results-page.png\" "\\"wp")
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..and put the “Search results code” from Google into this page, like this for example:<\/p>\n
\r\n...\r\n<h2>Google search results<\/h2>\r\n...\r\n<div id=\"cse-search-results\" style=\"\"><\/div>\r\n\t..more code from google..\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/afsonline\/show_afs_search.js\"><\/script>\r\n...\r\n<\/pre>\nStep 3: Modify the search form<\/h5>\n
Edit the WordPress theme file searchform.php<\/q> and insert the “Search box code” from Google there. So it might look similar to this snippet:<\/p>\n\r\n<h2 class=\"widgettitle\">Search my blog<\/h2>\r\n...\r\n<form action=\"http:\/\/YOURDOMAIN\/search\" id=\"cse-search-box\" name=\"cse-search-box\">\r\n\t..more code from google..\r\n<\/form>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse\/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en\"><\/script>\r\n...\r\n<\/pre>\nNow the search widget shows the Google Search field and already is linked to the google results page.<\/p>\n
Step 4: Redirecting the WordPress search<\/h5>\n
One thing is still to be done – the default WordPress search is still present, you could access it by calling: \/search\/example<\/kbd>.<\/p>\nBut to be consistent, we redirect this search also to the Google results page. This is a bit more complicated, so I’ll explain this a bit more detailed:<\/p>\n
\n- First do a search for
example<\/q> using the Google CSE and copy the URL from the result page<\/li>\n- Take this URL and move the search term parameter (q=..) to the end and remove the term
example<\/q>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/URL-result-modification.png\" "\\"URL")
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Your result is of course a little bit different…<\/p>\n
Now open your main template file (index.php) and insert this code at the top, replacing the URL (inside the single quotes) by the one you created aboved:<\/li>\n
\r\n<?php if (is_search()) :\r\n\t$result_url = 'http:\/\/YOURDOMAIN\/search\/?cx=partner-pub-12345..11&ie=UTF-8&sa=&siteurl=YOURDOMAIN%2F&q=';\r\n\theader('Location:'.$result_url.$s);\r\n\texit;\r\nendif; ?>\r\n<\/pre>\nMake sure, there are no PHP syntax errors (keep a backup of the previous index.php..)<\/em><\/p>\nWhat’s happening here? The is_search()<\/kbd>-function is a Template Tag from WordPress, which returns true if the user searched for something. In this case we redirect the Browser to the Google Results page and insert the search parameter from WordPress ($s<\/kbd>) into the URL as if the user had used the searchform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to use Google Custom Search together with Wordpress? A tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54,79],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webdevelopment","tag-track","tag-webdesign"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/google-cse-choose-url.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPEN-Xl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8242,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/8242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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