August, 2015 update: Corey from Freshhold Consulting offered more detailed instructions on adding Google custom search in the designer blog.
You can embed Google Custom Search to allow users to search all the content on your website:
Make sure you paste the custom search embed code directly into the template of a page, not into the content editor.
Google will not index your site right away, so you should work to get some external links to your new nation from other sites or submit it to Google directly. Once Google and other search engines know your site exists, NationBuilder does provide a sitemap that will help the search engines index all of your public pages.
Specific information on how to set up search with the Pershing Forest theme is also available.
*On April 1st, 2017, Google will discontinue the sales of Google Site Search, the paid version of Custom Search Engine. All new purchases and renewals must take place before this date. Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1st, 2018. This note does not affect Custom Search Engine.
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And it’s saying that NB has no intention of providing an inbuilt site search for visitors to its customers’ sites. That’s not helpful, on two counts.
First, it makes all of your customers do a whole lot if similar work when you could save that effort by doing it once.
Second, if pushes all of your customers and their members and casual visitors into the clutches of Google, who already have far too much information about us and far too few ethical guidelines.
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It’ll be the same place that you add the Google CSE.
thank you
Are there any other options?