Killer Tip : How to add seach bar to your ning 3.0 network ?

[Bernard Lama]

Hi NCs,

As you know Ning 3.0 doesn't have search bar like ning 2.0 yet. May be some people are desperately looking for a solution. So today I'm gonna show you few simple steps to add  google custom search bar to your ning 3.0 network (Ning 2.0 has search bar at the top right corner within ning bar) and it works as good as default ning 2.0 search bar. So here we go.

Step one: Click on this lick http://www.google.com/cse/manage/all and sign in to your Google or Gmail account, or create one if you don’t already have one. Once you’ve done that, head over to the Google Custom Search management page. Click on ADD button> Enter your network link under "Sites to search" and hit CREATE button> now go to step two.

Step Two: Copy and paste the following code into notepad. Go back to the google page you just created google custom search bar code and Click on GET CODE and copy the code. Now go back to the notepad and paste the google custom search bar code within <p style="text-align:left;"> and </p>. 

<!--CUSTOM GOOGLE SEARCH BAR by [e-mail]-->
<div id="BL_search_bar" style="display:none;">
<p style="text-align:left;">

YOUR GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH BAR CODE GOES HERE

</p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (typeof(x$) != 'undefined') {
x$(".ningbar").prepend('<div id="inside_header"></div>');
var within_headerCode = document.getElementById('BL_search_bar');
var insideheaderCode = document.getElementById('inside_header');
insideheaderCode.innerHTML = within_headerCode.innerHTML;
}
</script>
<style>
input.gsc-search-button-v2 {
padding: 6px 20px 7px 20px;
}
.gsc-search-box-tools .gsc-search-box .gsc-input {
padding-right: 0px;
}
.gsc-control-cse {
background-color: hsla(0, 100%, 100%, 0);
border-color: transparent;
height: 33px;
padding: 0px 3px;
}
#inside_header {
width: 300px;
float:right;
}
</style>
<!--CUSTOM GOOGLE SEARCH BAR by [e-mail]-->

Step Three: Now copy and paste the entire code into custom code (End of Page Code) and save the page. You are done.

Live preview here

 

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[OMGEDSON]

I feel EXACTLY this way.

[Ben Carr]

Gwynnyth, you can add chats to your site. My site uses XAT for chat rooms. Its not the same as the 2.0 site chat but it does work .

[Gwynnyth]

I have had three different chats on my site, my members don't like any of them. I was promised a bill of goods they could not provide. They won't give me a ning 2 site and they won't give me a refund. They even abandoned this site. How they can do this to people amazes me. I'm just getting angrier reading this. Time to walk away...

[Ben Carr]

Walking away now would be understandable but I would compare it to waiting in line all day and leaving when you are near the front because you are tired of waiting. 3.0 suck but it can only get better! My site activity has dropped a lot since we changed to 3.0 a week and a half ago but it is slowly starting to get better. I too would consider leaving but our site is huge, really really huge! It would be almost impossible to transport everything manually to some other side and doing so would cause a lot of content being lost. We have 1000s of posts and couldnt possibly move everything. I understand your frustration but dont make a decision while frustrated.

[Gwynnyth]

Ben, I've been going through this since June, all I get is promises I can't go back as I have nothing to go back to. I left a site owned by someone else.
I see where you're coming from, I'm just going to wait till my contract runs out next June, then I'll leave lolol

[Ben Carr]

Maybe by June they will have made tons of improvements and you will want to stay? I do like how 3.0 can be used more creatively than 2.0 but would love to see 3.0 being closer to a finished product. Ning's customer service has gone downhill over the last year or two but maybe that too can be improved soon.

[steve]

 Blimey..June 2015.. its to be hoped that the ning we know today will pale in comparison to the ning of 2015..

Please God.. :)))

[Gwynnyth]

Good luck with that, ive stopped believing in ning

[Gwynnyth]

Amen!

[steve]

Its a brilliant thing this, thanks bernard.  Most of my stuff takes place in groups and it doesn't seem to be picking the groups up for some reason. which is a real shame. :-)