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Posts Tagged ‘Search’

How to: Show/Hide any div box with jQuery in WordPress

By Austin On February 2, 2009 38 Comments

If you take a look at my current sidebar (right) and see the heading Google Search you’ll notice that when you click it the Google Search box show’s into view.

Let me show you how this is done.

First make sure that your WordPress site is calling jQuery, buy pluggin this code into our header.php file above the <?php wp_head(); ?> text:

<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>

Then anywhere above the </head >, plug this code in:

<script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { // hides the slickbox as soon as the DOM is ready jQuery('#toggle-search').hide(); // toggles the slickbox on clicking the notedClick here to continue reading


How to: Show what a user is searching for in the title

By Austin On February 2, 2009 No Comments

Want to show what any user was searching for?
It is simple, just add this line where your title would be.

<h1>Browsing search results for <strong>"<?php the_search_query() ?>"</strong>.</h1>

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Search Unleased: A custom WordPress plugin

By Austin On January 19, 2009 No Comments

Most all WordPress theme’s use a a simple search form to search your site. But what it you wanted to search your whole site and not just your posts.

Search Unleashed comes into the picture. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.

Some features of this plugin are:

  • Full text search with wildcards and logical operations
  • Search posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, tags, and meta-data (all configurable)
  • Search data after it has been processed by plugins, not before
  • Search highlighting of all searches, including titles and comments
  • Search highlighting of incoming searches from
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Google Highlight

By Austin On January 10, 2009 1 Comment

For those looking for a way to optimize your search results on your WordPress blog. You may want to check out the following plugin. Goolge Highlight

It will highlight or colorize the background of any letter or word that you search for. Head over to the site to see it, or do a search on this site and see it in action.

I want to update: I am going to follow up with at least three more great tricks and plugins you can use to help search you WordPress blog. Click here to continue reading