so i just spent a bunch of time trying to install some sort of search feature into my group's wiki. not fun. First I tried to insert the html on the page, no dice. Then I tried the insert code feature, same result. The code just appeared on the page, which made me laugh because if you’re actually writing html code, you have to do some very specific things to make that happen. Let’s call that laugh a wiki laugh because it is free for you to edit what this laugh sounds like to you in your own mind. Consider your request to join that wikispace approved. I skipped a step or rather this story unfolds more like a series of simultaneous events than a step by step process. The image to keep in mind here is a firefox browser stuffed to the Gils with open tabs. As I was trying to figure out how to get the code on the wiki, I poked around for some html to plug in once I figured out where and how to do so. This was the easy part. Askdavetaylor.com was helpful. Once I realized that it would take some finesse to get my code where it needed to be, I looked more at the wikispaces widgets for something suitable, not thrilled by the options there. But I did find a place to plop my askdavetaylor html code. I put it in and voila my wildest dreams came true—until I tried to use it to search my site specifically. Didn’t work. Might have to scrap it.
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I don't know if this will help or if you tried this. I was having the same problem, you have to click on embed widget and then click other html and add the code there.
Believe me I spent a LONG time a few weeks trying to figure out how to add the fancy html codes that wikispaces does not have.
yeah, that's what i ended up doing. it pained me, however, yesterday to see a search box in the top left corner of the page put there automatically by wikispaces. as homer would say...d'oh!
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