SeedProd

John Turner

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 <a href="http://www.google.com/cse/docs/cref.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Linked Custom Search Engines</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.seedprod.com/blog/" title="SeedProd Demo" rel="nofollow ugc">View a Live Demo »</a></li>
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<h3>Features:</h3>
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<li>Works with any WordPress Theme</li>
<li>No need to setup a Google Custom Search</li>
<li>No Google account required </li>
<li>Search results show up on the default search result page.</li>
<li>Just add the “Google Site Search” widget to your theme.</li>
<li>Does not replace the default WordPress search. It runs along with it. Use both if you want.</li>
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This plugin is built and maintained by <a href="http://www.seedprod.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">SeedProd</a>

WordPress Google Search

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

Aptivate

This plugin adds Google Custom Search to your website, but unlike other plugins 
operates on the server side, thus eliminating the need for JavaScript and 
keeping the page size small.
The admin interface is based on that used by the [WP Google Search plugin] 
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/)
The interface with the Google API is based on <a href="https://github.com/jasonclark/digital-collections-custom-search-api" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Collection Search</a> by Jason Clark for Montana 
State University.
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish (incomplete)</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://github.com/aptivate/server-side-google-search" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow this project on Github</a>
<h3>Development</h3>
This plugin uses <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-cli</a> and <a href="https://phpunit.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">PHPUnit</a> for testing. 
The tests require <a href="https://github.com/zenovich/runkit" rel="nofollow ugc">runkit</a> for mocking functions.
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<li>
Grab the latest source from github:
$ git clone git@github.com:aptivate/server-side-google-search.git
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<li>
Install <a href="http://wp-cli.org/#install" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-cli</a>
</li>
<li>Install <a href="https://phpunit.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">PHPUnit</a></li>
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Set up runkit:
$ git clone https://github.com/zenovich/runkit.git 
$ cd runkit 
$ phpize 
$ ./configure 
$ sudo make install
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</ul>
Add the following lines to <code>/etc/php5/cli/php.ini</code>:
<pre><code>extension=runkit.so
runkit.internal_override=1
</code></pre>
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<li>
Install the test WordPress environment:
cd server-side-google-search 
bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh test_db_name db_user ‘db_password’ db_host version
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</ul>
where: 
** <code>test_db_name</code> is the name for your temporary test WordPress database 
** <code>db_user</code> is the database user name 
** <code>db_password</code> is the password 
** <code>db_host</code> is the database host (eg <code>localhost</code>) 
** <code>version</code> is the version of WordPress (eg <code>4.2.2</code> or <code>latest</code>)
<ul>
<li>Run the tests 
phpunit</li>
</ul>

Server-Side Google Search

Adds a lightweight Google Custom Search to your website, without the need for JavaScript.

WordPress Google Search vs Server-Side Google Search