Implementing a Google Custom Search into your Wordpress theme is actually pretty easy but requires a little bit of theme jiggery pokery!

OK so first things first:

Create a page called 'search' or 'search results' in the admin section of your Wordpress site. Take a note of the page id, this can normally be found if you hover the mouse pointer over the 'View Page' link or go to 'Edit' in the Pages menu and hover over the search page (its the number at the end you need). I would also select the full page template for the search page (what do you mean your theme doesnt have a sidebar-less full page? Spose I could write a tut on that too). Good now we have the search page published and the id of said page.

Next create your Google Custom Search in your adsense account. I'll not go through all the steps but remember and get the search page url right and set the width correctly for the page! OK you should now have your search code blocks. Highlight the second block of code, go to your Wordpress admin and edit the search page and insert the code into the main text window (use html view and publish).

Then highlight the first/top Google code block and put that in your theme wherever you want the search to appear.

That should be the search fully operational test it in some different browsers to check. "WAIT" I here you cry. I dont want a stupid page called Search Results in my page menu! Quite right, remember the page id I told you to take note of, well here is where you use it.

In your sidebar code you will no doubt have a line like this:

[php][/php]

We need to add an exclude function to this line which will look something like this:

[php] [/php]

Change the '86' to what ever your page id is and hey presto the jiggery pokery is complete!

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