To get a Koha Search feature on your Web site, you can find and install a Plugin that Liz wrote – it will be a widget that you drag and drop to the sidebar of your choice.
- Log into your site (/wp-admin)
- Click on Plugins and Add New
Search for the term “koha”- This will bring up Liz’s two plug ins – one provides a Search box, the other a way for patrons to Log in to their account.
- Select “Install Now” and then the “Activate” link to add and activate these widgets to the pool of widgets under the Appearance tab.
- Go to the Appearance Tab and select “Widgets”
- Find the Koha Search Widget in the list of Available Widgets, then Drag and Drop this widget into the sidebar of your choosing.
- Edit the URL to point to the Secure patron search link of “https://catalog.nexpresslibrary.org” and click SAVE
- Your site will now have this:
The old-fashioned way:
- Log into the administration side of your site (http://your-klow-url/wp-admin)
- Click on Presentation
- Click Widgets
- Scroll down until you see Text Widgets.
- In the drop down list next to “How many text widgets would you like? ,” select 5.
- Click Save
- Scroll down to Available Widgets
- Drag Text 5 up to one of your sidebars
- Click the “Configure” button on the right hand side of Text 5.
- Paste the following code into the box:
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<form name='searchform' method='get' action='http://catalog.nexpresslibrary.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl' id='searchform'> <h4>Search our Catalog</h4><input type='hidden'> <input type='text' id='q' name='q' size='20'> <input type='submit' name='kcs_submit' id='kcs_submit' value='Search' class='submit'> </form>
- Click the X in the upper right hand corner to close the text box.
- Click Save Changes.
- Remember to remove the NExpress button widget if you have it. You could also use the text box that you were using for the button, deleting the code that was there and inserting the code above.