Dear readers, if you are using Firefox or Internet Explorer 7, did you noticed something?
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Do you know what do this mean?
This means you can add this to your browser’s search bar! Then search can be made without loading to your blog first!
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Well, in this post i will teach you how to do this for your blog! Haha
What do you need:
A (wordpress) blog [since i havent try this with others platform's blog]
Notepad (or any text or xml editor)
Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 7
Step by step:
1. Firstly, you will need to create an XML file. Copy the following code into a notepad and save it as myopensearch.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<OpenSearchDescription
xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>SHORT_NAME_OF_YOUR_BLOG</ShortName>
<Description>BLOG_DESCRIPTION</Description>
<Url type="text/html"
template="http://BLOG_URL/index.php?s={searchTerms}"/>
<LongName>YOUR_BLOG_LONG_NAME</LongName>
</OpenSearchDescription>And of cos change the details accordingly for your blog:
- SHORT_NAME_OF_YOUR_BLOG – change to your blog name (i.e. joshuatly.com v2)
- BLOG_DESCRIPTION – brief description of your blog
- BLOG_URL – Your blog url (i.e http://www.joshuatly.com)
- YOUR_BLOG_LONG_NAME – your blog name
2. Then upload the file myopensearch.xml to the root directory of your blog!
3. Go to the theme editor under the Design (via admin screen) and open header.php. Find the following code.
<link rel="pingback"
href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
4. Insert the following code below the above code. Change the YOUR_BLOG_NAME and BLOG_URL to your blog name and your blog path accordingly.
<link rel="search" title="YOUR_BLOG_NAME"
href="http://BLOG_URL/myopensearch.xml"
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" />
Save the header.php and thats all! You will be able to see the change immediately!
Credit to/Source: eches.net
joshuatly2008
