The Recent Google Searches Widget collects the query string from Google, Bing and Yahoo. It lists the last 5 as a sidebar widget so that users might click on them and find information using the WordPress search. In this way a user might find more pages that satisfy his search and other users may be interested in the same things that previous searchers used as queries.
It is quite possible that the Search engine query will result in a not found because the WordPress built-in search is not very flexible, so I have written a loose search plugin that I am going to submit to the plugin repository.
Download
Latest version: Download Recent Google Searches Widget v1.30 [zip]
Installation
- Download the plugin.
- Upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins directory.
- Activate the plugin.
- Drag the widget to a sidebar.
- Edit the sidebar title and count of links to display if needed.
Changelog
1.0
- initial release
1.1
- Fixed stupid bug
1.11
- Formatted Widget title according to standards. (thanks tat2jr for pointing out the issue.)
1.12
- Changed search link to work better with canonical pages.
1.13
- Fixed unordered list format and removed debug message.
1.20
- Added nofollow option to links
- Added ability to track up to 30 links
- Eliminated duplicates.
1.30
- Fixed bug in default values for number of keywords to display