Today I released a new version of the Blogroll to Google CSE plugin that I’ve developed with the kind folks over at the Libraries Interact blog. There have been some important changes.
Firstly the plugin now uses the Shortcode API that was introduced in WordPress version 2.5. This is an important change in that it modifies the way the plugin works.
It means that:
- Where you used to use [blogroll-google-cse] on the page where you want to display the search form and list of links, you now use [search-blogroll-google-cse]
- You no longer use [blogroll-google-cse-results] on the page where you want to display the search results, you now must use [results-blogroll-google-cse]
The main benefit of this approach is that you can now instruct the plugin to show the search box and not the list of links. To do this you use the following shortcode:
[search-blogroll-google-cse links="no"]
Additional changes have been made to ensure the administrative UI is easier to use, and the plugin now detects the appropriate location of core WordPress files and URLs using the technique outlined in this post by Ozh.
Please try out this new version, and let me know what you think
