Title: WP Google Search Author: WebshopLogic Published: January 15, 2014 Last modified: August 3, 2022 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-google-search/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=839866) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-google-search/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=976021) # WP Google Search By [WebshopLogic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webshoplogic/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-google-search.1.1.0.zip) * [Details](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/#description) * [Reviews](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/#reviews) * [Installation](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/#installation) * [Development](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/) ## Description If you would like a Google search feature on your WordPress site, you only need to register to Google Custom Search, get your Google Search Engine ID, and enter it in the plugin settings page. Then your custom search engine is ready for use, just put the new Google search box widget on the sidebar, and enjoy it! In this way the plugin enables you to insert Google search into your website, or a collection of websites easily. You can search both web pages and images. You can define if you want to search only on your site (or given sites), or the entire web. It is possible to customize your search features, the look and feel (layout, themes, custom colors and fonts, thumbnails), and much more. All these settings can be specified on the Google Custom Search Engine admin site: [https://www.google.com/cse/](https://www.google.com/cse/) Your changes will appear instantly on your site automatically. After you registered to Google Custom Search Engine and get your Google Search Engine ID, you need to enter the ID in the plugin settings page: Settings -> WP Google Search Use WP Google Search widget or [wp_google_searchbox] shortcode to place search box on your site. Search results can be displayed on a normal page or in a popup window. Use Full Width layout or Overlay (popup) layout on Google Custom Search Admin site to setup it. It does not require any coding or other complicated operation. Please find more information in the product documentation: [WP Google Search Documentation](https://webshoplogic.com/wordpress-google-search-plugin-for-free/) #### Available languages * English * Spanish – translated by Ogi Djuraskovic – [http://firstsiteguide.com](http://firstsiteguide.com) * Serbian – translated by Ogi Djuraskovic – [http://firstsiteguide.com](http://firstsiteguide.com) * Portuguese (BR) – translated by Gabriel Froes * Swedish – translated by Tobias – [http://ComClick.se](http://ComClick.se) * Danish – translated by Alexander Leo-Hansen – [http://alexanderleohansen.dk](http://alexanderleohansen.dk) * Russian – translated by Timofeev Ilya ## Screenshots * [[ * Google Custom Search * [[ * Basic Setup, get your search engine ID * [[ * Enter search engine ID into plugin admin panel * [[ * Place WP Google Search widget on sidebar * [[ * Customization example (select layout) * [[ * Customization example (look and feel – colors) ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory. 2. Activate it through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. 3. Register to Google Custom Search Engine and get your Google Search Engine ID here: [https://www.google.com/cse/](https://www.google.com/cse/) 4. Enable the plugin and enter Google Search Engine ID: Settings -> WP Google Search( See screenshots for more information.) ## FAQ ### You can find FAQ here: [Documentation / FAQ](https://webshoplogic.com/products/wordpress_plugins/wp-google-search-product-page/#tab-faq&noscroll) ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b2630584424366202a0b0dc74d6decb1a1b000ad0b13bd77a8400549ca6be5b5? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Support and Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-and-updates-5/)󠁿 [juniorbra](https://profiles.wordpress.org/juniorbra/) September 20, 2023 Hello, I noticed that the plugin hasn’t been updated in a while, but I installed it and it worked fine. I would like to know if this plugin still has updates, and if I can use it without problems ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bbb1160288f66a0c44267b1018b4670d434bfae59e29f90545360fb9e51f948b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-7591/)󠁿 [FelipeS](https://profiles.wordpress.org/felipedomcamus/) October 21, 2022 Here, it works… Thank you. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/92d9541e1a98bc6e4abd2df92689a3726d2938def37f3df88ffb1d76f6829c59? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works nicely](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-nicely-153/)󠁿 [Bike Gremlin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bikegremlin/) September 17, 2021 An easy to use plugin that just does its job. No constant (needless) updates, etc– the developers seem to have just built it right from the start. Writing this because I saw a warning when looking at its page here: “This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.” Well, I’ve tested it, it works. And the developers seem quite active on the plugin’s support page – answering and resolving the support questions. Looks fine to me. Doesn’t slow things down. Works as it should. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b3cae1a9f64b719a98122f59de0cfdc88fcc6b440fe3bd0f002acf38409c487? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Easy to setup and works great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-to-setup-and-works-great-3/)󠁿 [melebius](https://profiles.wordpress.org/melebius/) March 11, 2021 This plugin does what I expected (although it hasn’t been tested with the current WordPress 5.7 release) and it was pretty easy to setup. I recommend it to everyone! I only had a little hard time when adjusting the look of the search box but there was a conflict between my WordPress theme and Google Custom Search Engine itself. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/90f3ced033248fe12ca2e98727ffcd275ca9450d8ed73eb1757146ed916509d2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excelente Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excelente-plugin-950/)󠁿 [oraculocreativo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oraculocreativo/) February 13, 2021 Me funciono a la perfección. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3099fedbf9ac7e1f03a1f8fffb36647f1b6fdc691b998c0a48b544d2f6b09e52? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Needs update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-update-23/)󠁿 [egocefalo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/egocefalo/) November 23, 2020 1 reply Settings page unreachable. [ Read all 30 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP Google Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ WebshopLogic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webshoplogic/) “WP Google Search” has been translated into 8 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-google-search/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “WP Google Search” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-google-search) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-google-search/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-google-search/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-google-search/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-google-search/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.0 New version for the latest WP version #### 1.0.9 * Modify: Change Text Domain from wgs to wp-google-search #### 1.0.8 * Minor adjustments #### 1.0.7 * Fix Notice: Undefined index: use_default_correction_css2, css3 in wp-google-search. php on line 69 and 72 #### 1.0.6 * Eliminate old style constructor call in WGS_Widget * Add css correction v2 and v3 (v1 is deprecated) #### 1.0.5 * Add Russian translation * Add target link blank option #### 1.0.4 * Add Swedish translation * Add Danish translation #### 1.0.3 * Add “Support Overlay Display” option, for display search results in overlay window, without loading another page. #### 1.0.2 * Portuguese (BR) translation * Re-create search page during re-activation if it does not exist #### 1.0.1 * Use new HTML5-valid div tags according to Google documentation: You can use HTML5- valid div tags as long as you observe these guidelines: The class attribute must be set to gcse-XXX, Any attributes must be prefixed with data-. * Eliminate Enable plugin checkbox in settings page * Eliminate donation button inside settings page * Descriptions are added to settings page * Spanish and Serbian translations #### 1.0.0 * First version ## Meta * Version **1.1.0** * Last updated **4 years ago** * Active installations **6,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.7 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.0.11** * Languages * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/), and [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-google-search) * Tags * [google](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)[google custom search](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-custom-search/) [google search](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-search/)[SCE](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sce/) * [Advanced View](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-search/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.4 out of 5 stars. * [ 23 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 3 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ WebshopLogic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webshoplogic/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-google-search/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://webshoplogic.com/donation-wp-google-search/)