Comments for page "Add a Custom Google Search Engine"

Re: What about "private" sites?

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:58:10 +0000

Not yet… under "private" sites there is no way to do that…

Re: What about "private" sites?

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:31:55 +0000

are there any alternatives for this? i'm in the same boat and am looking for a better search module for a private wiki site as the current one is not very useful unfortunately…thanks!

Re: What about "private" sites?

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:19:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for your early reply Rob! I will waiting for improvements in Wikidot search module instead…

Re: What about "private" sites?

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:57:16 +0000

No there isn't. Your site is private and although the Google custom search code is put on your page in the site the search is still an external public search. As you are not able to provide any authentication it has no access to your site so can't do the search and returns nothing found.

What about "private" sites?

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:36:06 +0000

I am trying to use the search engine in my private wiki, but it shows no results, I verified at Google´s control panel and it seems there is a problem with the indexing process… I suppose this is because my site is private, so I wish to know if, Is there any way to get Google indexing my private site?

Thanks!

custom search box for uploaded files

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:04:49 +0000

Hi there, for some time I've been attempting to feature a custom search facility to allow searches to be undertaken for uploaded image/file content on my wiki alone.

I've tried option three above which worked great, only it simply took me to the main google page. So I then replaced:

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:16:17 +0000

Bingo! Exactly spot on!

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:14:15 +0000

So you will be able to embed HTML in Wikidot pages? It will be on another domain so it will be secure, but this will be transparent to the user, just use HTML tags and Wikidot takes care of the rest.

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:36:34 +0000

HTML used on a different domain/website does no harm to anybody. Even if you iframe it on your website, it still can't do any harm.

But in theory, if you actually place the HTML code as part of your Wikidot webpage (which isn't possible to do, nor will it ever be possible to do, we are just talking hypothetically here), it can do the following:

Create/Edit/Delete/Rename/Parent/Tag/Upload Files of Wikidot pages
Modify the user's account settings (possibly changing password/email)
Change what the person is viewing

It would not be able to:

Change the Wikidot Engine

Essentially, it would be able to do what a normal user can do with Wikidot — albeit, automated.

Like I said, it's not possible and never will be :-)

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:13:54 +0000

http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-20340/rich-text-html

In the topics I made there I was told HTML is not used to stop malicious code. By that does it mean code malicious to Wikidot, or malicious to the person viewing the site?

Re: Security Risk?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:57:59 +0000

Well, all web browsers have inbuilt security which prevents a webpage from controlling a different webpage in your browser.

If you create code on Wikidot.com, then you can use it to control Wikidot.com. However, if you create code on Google.com, you will not be able to control Wikidot.com with it. Google code can only control the Google website. Wikidot code can only control the Wikidot website.

So the HTML module will put your code on a different website so that it can't control Wikidot.com. Does this make more sense now?

(no title)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:49:31 +0000

What do you mean? How is that so?

Re: Security risk?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:51:08 +0000

Not if it is iframed on a different domain. That is what the planned HTML block will do.

Security risk?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:23:59 +0000

Wouldn't allowing HTML be a security risk?

Re: [[html]]

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:26:22 +0000

Rhombus, you should never need to log out and back in to get a codeblock to work. It just needs the browser cache clearing then a refresh. So on Firefox it's ctrl+shift+delete then in the details section of the popup window make sure the cache (only) is checked, then click OK. Then ctrl+r to refresh.

Re: [[html]]

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:58:30 +0000

Uh… since when do you need to log out to get iframed html to work? :S

Am I misunderstanding something here.. ?

Re: [[html]]

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:34:35 +0000

Rob's patience is legendary. We're planning a new tag, [[html]] that will make this work instantly.

so no more logging out and logging back in to get html to work? that would be sweet!

[[html]]

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:18:59 +0000

We're planning a new tag, [[html]] that will make this work instantly.

You probably already know this, and it's probably the reason you are planning the tag, but just so I'm on the record, that sounds fantastic.

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:51:29 +0000

I think RobElliott spends 3/4 of his time responding to "How do I embed xxx?" and the answer is always about the same.

Rob's patience is legendary. We're planning a new tag, [[html]] that will make this work instantly.

(no title)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:26:32 +0000

Anyways, thank you for your quick help…

You're welcome. Sometimes it works out that way. I was posting responses almost as fast as you were asking questions! :)

(no title)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:39:42 +0000

You should have a look at this:
http://community.wikidot.com/blog:html-within-wikidot-type-2

Techniques for iframing code blocks are all over the forums, help and how-to pages. I think RobElliott spends 3/4 of his time responding to "How do I embed xxx?" and the answer is always about the same. Once you understand how html code blocks and iframes work together, you'll have added an excellent weapon to your Wikidot arsenal (pun intended!)

-Ed

(no title)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:34:00 +0000

No one mentioned I had to add "/code/1" after the URL…

Anyways, thank you for your quick help…

(no title)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:29:57 +0000

You're missing the [[iframe ...]] piece of the puzzle.

 [[iframe http://bestwikiever.wikidot.com/code-blocks/code/1 width="400px" height="75px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"]]

yields this result from your page:

You should also surround your code block with comment tags to hide it on the page:

 [!-- [[code type="html"]]            
  
   
  Custom Search 
 
  [[/code]] --]

-Ed

Re: HTML in Wikidot?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:24:18 +0000

I can't get it working :(

NOT WORKING!!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:22:36 +0000

http://bestwikiever.wikidot.com/code-blocks

It's not working for me

I want the search to appear on this page:
http://bestwikiever.wikidot.com/mpglinks

Re: HTML in Wikidot?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:18:03 +0000

Not directly. Only as described above by embedding it a code block or uploading it to a page and then iframing it.

-Ed

HTML in Wikidot?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:08 +0000

Can you use HTML in Wikidot?

Re: Adding Google Custom Search error

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:30:44 +0000

This is a workaround, but it should work…

Open notepad or some other text editor and add this to the editor:

 <html> <body> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript">script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.load('search', '1'); google.setOnLoadCallback(function(){ new google.search.CustomSearchControl('013549970210526421991:uywkjw_znii').draw('cse'); }, true); script> body> html>

Then save the file as code.html, and upload the file to the wikidot page you're adding it to.

Next, edit the wikidot page, and type this:
[[iframe http://SITENAME.wikidot.com/local--files/PAGENAME/code.html width="100%" height="500px" frameborder="0"]]

Remember to replace the "SITENAME" with your wiki's name, and "PAGENAME" with your wikidot page's name.

I've done the exact same thing here with different code and that method worked fine :)

Adding Google Custom Search error

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:49:37 +0000

 <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript">script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.load('search', '1'); google.setOnLoadCallback(function(){ new google.search.CustomSearchControl('013549970210526421991:uywkjw_znii').draw('cse'); }, true); script>

This is the snippet I got from google. When I pasted onto my webpage I get an error message ' sorry no match for the embedded content'. I use the [[embed]] code block. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? Do I need to specify code type?

Re: Adsense Search

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:38:48 +0000

Not sure what you mean with "specifically adsense search"?

This has nothing to do with wikidot!

1. You have an account at google and can
2. setup your OWN search machion for specific sites & or sub pages…
3. The adsense coming ( if allowed by you) on such search machine output has nothing to do with wikidot or YOUR adsense setup on wikidot account / site manager.

This is only a search machine limited to specified domains…
Try our search machine on the Search Center and you will see the outcome…

Adsense Search

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:52:45 +0000

Hey does this work with the adsense search automatically (as it's set up in wikidot) or would you have to go set up an adsense search specifically?

Re: Get an error when adding

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:47:10 +0000

Do you have your own google search coop code to embed? —hartnell

Re: Pictures

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:46:01 +0000

Er, gerdami, you are an admin, right? —hartnell

Get an error when adding

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:43:06 +0000

Get an ajax error when putting this embed statement into a page…
"The ajax request failed. Please check your internet connection or report a bug if the error repeats during your work". Keeps repeating…

Pictures

Tue, 08 May 2007 12:51:48 +0000

Could not upload pictures due to page restrictions. So I linked to another wikidot location.