Latest Post Visual Widget / Search Bar

[Brazmus]

Sorry didn't know whether to separate both of these questions or keep it one in the same.

I'm moving forward with my site to the widget world and I'm just wanting to understand what is available out there in comparison to Joomla as I'm more familiar with it and less so with Wordpress. So either these things exist and are easily downloadable as plugins or widgets or I have to get a coder to make it for me.

At www.ehow.com on their homepage they have a visual slideshow element in the top left that changes each day as new posts are made. I would love to have this on my homepage. Anything available out there to make this happen?

At the bottom of the page I love the extra big long search bar that they have too and would like to incorporate this too as part of all of my default template. Is there anything I can use to make this happen too?

Thanks in advance

Brad

[Dan Nickerson]

We have many posts on adding "featured sliders" and it's a part of Socrates 3.0 which is very, very close to being released.

The Search bar is just basic code and CSS and that would be pretty easy to add to the footer of your site.

Inside Footer.php we've marked out a place where you can add custom code.

You'd have to decide on WP or Google Search, and then just copy the search box code and put it in a div.

<div id="bigsearchbox"> search code </div>

Then create the CSS for background, centering and search form size.

[Brazmus]

Featured sliders are what they are called. Ok will do a search.

Does that 3.0 upgrade cost?

Ok cool, I'm not that good at adding custom code. Just fixing code already written Hence I'll give it a go, perhaps inspect the element that I want via Firefox, copy the code and insert it into where you have said then see if I can modify it.

Still yet to play around with the other search page issues I wrote to you about last week as my internet has been slow and haven't been able to watch the video.

Will try your suggestions soon. Thanks again.

[Brazmus]

Out of 147 featured sliders (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...atured+sliders)

do you know of one that looks like the one on www.ehow.com? Just to save some time if you've seen it before. 147 is a lot to check

Thanks again

[Brazmus]

Ok giving this a go Dan.

Tried pasting this code that I had put into the Socrates section of the dashboard:

<div id="bigsearchbox">
<div id="cse-search-form" style="width: 100%;">Loading</div>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('search', '1', {language : 'en'});
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
var customSearchOptions = {}; var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl(
'007861761337169237212gvd9gslcsa', customSearchOptions);
customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search .Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET);
var options = new google.search.DrawOptions();
options.enableSearchboxOnly("http://www.primalhealth.co", "s");
customSearchControl.draw('cse-search-form', options);
}, true);
</script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.google.com/cse/style/look/default.css" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
input.gsc-input {
border-color: #BDD09F;
}
input.gsc-search-button {
border-color: #BDD09F;
background-color: #BDD09F;
}
</style>
</div>

after this code:

<!-- You can insert text or html here to appear below bottom widget -->

It came up at the bottom with the words 'Loading' and that's it.

Wrong code? Wrong place I've pasted it?

Is it possible for me to have this appear above the bottom widgets / below the end of the post and right sidebar?

Thanks again

[Dan Nickerson]

I have limited time today.. Can you check this first..

https://www.google.com/search?q=goog...h+says+loading

[Brazmus]

I have limited time today.. Can you check this first..

https://www.google.com/search?q=goog...h+says+loading

Tried several of the suggestions in the top 10. I have now left the code in on the footer.php in case that helps more to rectify the prob as I couldn't get a solution.

One post mentioned an issue with trying to load two different Google CSE's on the one page? Another got close but I din't have the same code as what he suggested:

http://www.binaryturf.com/thesis-cus...press-website/

Have now just left the original CSE code inside the <div> in footer.php.

When you get time let me know if you can work it out else I"ll add it to my coders to do list once I've done the rest of the site.

[Brazmus]

I have limited time today.. Can you check this first..

https://www.google.com/search?q=goog...h+says+loading

Tried several of the suggestions in the top 10. I have now left the code in on the footer.php in case that helps more to rectify the prob as I couldn't get a solution.

One post mentioned an issue with trying to load two different Google CSE's on the one page? Another got close but I din't have the same code as what he suggested:

http://www.binaryturf.com/thesis-cus...press-website/

Have now just left the original CSE code inside the <div> in footer.php.

When you get time let me know if you can work it out else I"ll add it to my coders to do list once I've done the rest of the site.

[Brazmus]

Just read your other post. I'll put this on the coders list. You've done enough with this one. Thanks