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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:

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

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

The important line is the_search_query() Click here to continue reading

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

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