Friday, June 4
Busy Mom. Technical Genius. The Sequel.Seems I'm just full of curiosity, can anyone tell me how to add a list of "recent search" terms to my sidebar? Some are hilarious and I'd like to share.
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Um...nope.
I would like to have that one myself. :-)
My favorite MT plugin directory:
http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/searches.php
Yep, get that plugin and use this little snippet:
<MTSearches lastn="10">
<MTSearchIP> searched for
<a href='<$MTCGIPath$>/mt-search.cgi?search=<MTSearchValue>'><MTSearchValue></a>
on <$MTSearchDate format="%a %b %d, %Y"$>
</MTSearches>
I have been looking for that everywhere! LOL! Thanks for pointing the way, Dj and Doc.
I implemented it on my blog in like, 2 minutes. However, it does see to slow down the loading a bit more than I'd like. I'll have to see if I'll keep it.
Download it at this link, the link on MT Plugin's is broken:
http://www.rayners.org/plugins/recentsearch.zip
Unzip and upload the file to your mt/plugins directory.
You can use the code Doc gave, or the following (from Raynes), which shows top search words and leaves out the date and IP addys:
Recent Searches:<br />
<MTSearches lastn="10" unique="1">
<a href='<$MTCGIPath$><$MTSearchScript$>?search=<MTSearchValue>'>
<MTSearchValue></a><br />
</MTSearches>
<br />
Top Searches:<br />
<MTSearches lastn="10" rank="1">
<MTSearchRank>. <a href='<$MTCGIPath$><$MTSearchScript$>?search=<MTSearchValue>'>
<MTSearchValue></a>
(<MTSearchTotal>)<br />
</MTSearches>
Add that to whatever file has your search box code in it. Rebuild. Viola.
I'm lucky if I can tell you how to turn on the computer. That is why I married a computer tech. Looks like some people can help ya though. Good luck!
Excellent! Consider it stolen. :)
Busy Mom is turning into Busy Techie Mom and will soon be bought out by Viacom. I want in on the ground floor before the IPO.
I also admire any enthusiast who continues to dink with Movable Type once it's working.