Title: Search API Plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Search API Plugin

 *  [yeshileyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yeshileyed/)
 * (@yeshileyed)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-api-plugin/)
 * I’ve just installed Search API Plugin i’ve written the google custom search id
   and saved. Now i can’t find the control panel of the plugin. There is an area
   called “Search Settings” but i see nothing except the texts below:
 * Before you can use the Google Search Plugin you must have a Google Custom Search
   Engine setup with Google.
    Follow these steps to sign up for a search engine 
   and/or get the correct settings to enter below:
 *  1. Visit the Google Custom Search Site
    2. Either click ‘Create a Custom Search
   Engine’ if you need to create one for your site or ‘manage your existing search
   engines’ if you have one. You can skip to step 5 if you already have a search
   engine setup for your site. 3. Enter a search engine name and description, choose
   a lanaguage and follow the directions on the first page. Under ‘Sites to search:’
   make sure to enter the full url to your blog. (For example: [http://myblog.tld/blog/*](http://myblog.tld/blog/*)
   to index the entire blog). Click continue. 4. On the next screen read the information
   and click the finish button. 5. Select the search engine you want to configure
   WordPress for by clicking ‘control panel’. 6. You can edit the settings for the
   search engine here later but for now click ‘Get code’ on the left hand side. 
   7. Check the middle option ‘Host results on my website using an iframe’ and some
   code will be generated. 8. In the first text box you should see the following
   line of code: <input type=”hidden” name=”cx” value=”SEARCH ID HERE” /> copy the
   value that should be in place of ‘SEARCH ID HERE’. 9. Paste the value below and
   click ‘Save Changes’
 * I’ve done all written above. There is no settings page for the plugin.

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