Tag: Search

how to add google search to wordpress manually

wordpress has inbuilt search, still people want to add the advanced search in their site. we will show, how to add google search to wordpress manually.

how to add google search to wordpress manually

There are too many sites build on wordpress. wordpress gives inbuild search option in cms. But still people want to add the advanced search in there site. I suggest you can add the google search in wordpress site. Adding google search in wordpress site is really SEO friendly also. It is very easy to add the google search system in wordpress sites.

In some very simple steps you can add the google search in wordpress sites.

First login to google and go to following URL:
https://www.google.com/cse/

how to add google search to wordpress manually
how to add google search to wordpress manually

Just add the your site and and get your site custom google search for your site.

Before this you need to create the wordpress page for showing the search result page.

I created page called “search result”. For getting JS code you need give search result page path in google settings.

You will get options for selecting search result layout. Here you will get two javascripts code for google search form and search result.

After getting the two javscript code. You need to add the form code into wordpress widget.

On search result page just add the second code and save it. That sit. Your custom site google search is ready.

You can Customize Google Custom Search Engine Colors and Looks as your site color and theme.

wordpress gogogle search -CSE - Look and Feel
wordpress gogogle search -CSE – Look and Feel

Sample Form Code: (you can use following code in wordpress widget)

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1<form action="https://purabtech.in/search-result/" id="cse-search-box">
2<div>
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4<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
5<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
6<input type="text" name="q" size="32" />
7<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
8</div>
9</form>

Following code you can use in search result page

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1cse-search-results">
2 
3var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results";
4var googleSearchFormName = "cse-search-box";
5var googleSearchFrameWidth = 550;
6var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com";
7var googleSearchPath = "/cse";
8// ]]></script>

Google Search Trick in wordpress. There is width issue in search result page. Google search result render with 768px width.
You need to just add following CSS code in your wordpress theme style.css file.

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1#cse-search-results iframe {width: 200px; }

custom google site search you can add in any wordpress site without any wordpress plugin.

best wordpress seo plugins ever which will increase site seo

Normally people searching for best wordpress seo plugins,  I shortlised best wordpress seo plugins which are really useful for every wordpress developers.

I am using wordpress since 2006 for my blogs and websites. Since I also written the wordpress plugins for SEO purpose. Still some wordpress plugins are really doing great work. SEO is very import facter for every website.

best wordpress seo plugins

I almost used every best wordpress seo plugins But I like following wordpress plugins due to some reasons. Personally I like the “WordPress SEO by Yoast” wordpress plugin for SEO purpose. It is simple to use. It is not impacting on your site performance. It takes less then 40% memory as compare the other seo plugins. Site performance is very for every website seo. Meta description and meta tags and seo title are equally important.

Smart WordPress SEO

Boost your wordpress SEO: Full SEO features Meta Tags, webmaster tools settings, Social AuthorShip for Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus and XML sitemap

You can enter your meta keywords and description for your homepage and each post and pages.

This plugin will add different Meta description for each individual post as your excerpt of your post.

This will help your blog to rank better in google. You can easily increase your blog traffic using this plugin.

Following are the features:

  1. Preview of Smart wordpress SEO – Home page Keywords and description
  2. WebMaster Tool Verification Setting
  3. Social Authorship for Google, Twitter and Facebook
  4. XML sitemap setting
  5. Image SEO setting
  6. Eash Post or Page SEO title, Description and Keywords setting

WordPress SEO by Yoast

best wordpress seo plugins ever which will increase site seo
best wordpress seo plugins ever which will increase site seo

Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.

Comments: This is very nice plugin for SEO. It takes less memory as compare to other best wordpress seo plugins. I personally using this plugin in my site. This plugin has not many features like other best wordpress seo plugins but this plugin is really fast. No memory leak issues with this plugin.

SEO Ultimate

SEO Ultimate,best wordpress seo plugins
SEO Ultimate,best wordpress seo plugins

This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex, meta tags, Open Graph, slugs, canonical, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets,

Comments: I love this plugin. This plugins I used for years. If you have good hosting solution then you should go for this plugin for seo. This is best ever and great plugin for seo. But only bad part is It takes lot of memory of your site almost 30% of memory will consumed by this plugin while each page loading. Still I can recommend this plugin for SEO because It has really great result in SEO with wordpress.

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack,best wordpress seo plugins
All in One SEO Pack,best wordpress seo plugins

WordPress SEO plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

Comments: This plugin is really oldest great seo tool for wordpress. This plugin I used for some time. It has great features. Helpful to SEO. Many bloggers are still loving this wordpress plugin and using it. This plugin also consume your server memory big time while each page loading. Performance is  very important when you are using any wordpress plugin.

My SEO Plugin

Seo Meta Tags

You can enter your meta keywords and description for your homepage. Same like best wordpress seo plugins, this is also great and simple and very light seo plugin which is written by me.
This plugin will add different Meta description for each individual post as your excerpt of your post. This will help your blog to rank better in google. You can easily increase your blog traffic using this plugin.

Comments: This plugin has minimal features for SEO but still most important seo features are present in this plugin. This plugin will not consume your site memory. This plugin is super fast. This plugin is very easy to use in your site. They looked for performance of site. Using this plugin you can increase the seo without effecting the site performance.

What People are doing for SEO

Normally people are searching for best wordpress seo plugins, install wordpress seo plugins,  all in one seo wordpress plugin, wordpress seo optimization, yoast seo, wp seo plugin, all in one seo vs yoast,  seo ultimate vs yoast. I shortlised the best ever wordpress seo plugin which are really useful for every wordpress developers. If you have doubts about wordpress SEO then you can write to me.

Display the authors in dropdown menu using wp_dropdown_users – Hook/Filter

One of my client faced issue with Autor drop down which is in Admin section.

Display the authors in dropdown menu using hooks.

While creating the New post there was problem with the Author field. There are hundreds of irrelevant selections (users) and it’s difficult to select the right one.

WordPress is by default showing all the users in author drop down. I don’t want to show the other users in author drop down.

Display the authors in a dropdown menu
Hook/Filter – In wordpress Admin -Add new Post section -Display the authors in a dropdown menu using wp_dropdown_users One of my client faced issue with Autor drop down which is in Admin section. Display the authors in a dropdown menu using hooks

I searched for wp_dropdown_users hook or filter. But I did not found any proper solution.

Following articles are found helpful to me.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-for-post-quick-edit-author-drop-down
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_users

Using that code I modified the code and I am able to fix the issue. You can put following code in to functions.php file.

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01/*
02 * Hook for showing Admin and Author in Add new Post - Admin section dropdown menu
03 */
04function wpapi_override_wp_dropdown_users($output) {
05    global $post, $user_ID;
06    //get the Admin-role users IDs
07    $admins = getUsersWithRole('admin');
08    //get the author-role users IDs
09    $authors = getUsersWithRole('author');
10    //merge the array
11    $result = array_merge($admins, $authors);
12 
13    //array converted into comma seprated string
14    $authorsall = implode(",", $result);
15 
16    // return if this isn't the theme author override dropdown
17    if (!preg_match('/post_author_override/', $output))
18        return $output;
19 
20    // return if we've already replaced the list (end recursion)
21    if (preg_match('/post_author_override_replaced/', $output))
22        return $output;
23 
24    // replacement call to wp_dropdown_users
25    $output = wp_dropdown_users(array(
26        'echo' => 0,
27        'name' => 'post_author_override_replaced',
28        'selected' => empty($post->ID) ? $user_ID : $post->post_author,
29        'include_selected' => true,
30        'include' => $authorsall
31    ));
32 
33    // put the original name back
34    $output = preg_replace('/post_author_override_replaced/', 'post_author_override', $output);
35 
36    return $output;
37}
38 
39add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'wpapi_override_wp_dropdown_users');
40 
41/*
42 * Find User IDs by Role
43 */
44 
45function getUsersWithRole($role) {
46    $wp_user_search = new WP_User_Search($usersearch, $userspage, $role);
47    return $wp_user_search->get_results();
48}

Using above code, you can load multiple role users in author drop down.

create links template page in wordpress theme

From 3rd version wordpress introduced links template. Links is same important like archive page. code snippet for create links template page in wordpress.

create links template page in wordpress

Links template page concept is new in wordpress theme. From wordpress 3 version wordpress introduced the links.php template file in wordpress themes. Adding the links page to your wordpress site or blog is very good for seo.Links page is same important like archive page.

create links template page in wordpress
create links template page in wordpress

You can add your friends and good websites in links page. You should use the links page very carefully because this page is very important for SEO. Google and other search engine is always look for links page where you can put other network or friends sites.

How to create links template page

Note: If you are wordpress developer then only use following code.

You need to create the links.php file in your wordpress theme folder. and put following code in that file.

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01<?php
02/*
03Template Name: Links
04*/
05?>
06<?php get_header(); ?>
07 
08 <section id="primary">
09 <div id="content" role="main">
10 
11<div id="archives">
12 
13<?php the_post(); ?>
14 <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
15 <h2>Friends Network </h2>
16 <ul>
17<?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?>
18 
19</ul>
20 
21</div>
22 </div><!-- #content -->
23 </section><!-- #primary -->
24 
25<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
26<?php get_footer(); ?>

After that go to your wordpress admin panel and create the links.php with links page template.

create links template page in wordpress
create links template page in wordpress

Publish links page and add the links page in to your menu.

Here are some links which are helpful to you.

create contact us template page in wordpress

If you link this article then please add my site in your links page or blogroll. If you are having any issues or question about links template then please write to me on support@purabtech.in.