Deprecation Notice

[dhawalepranav]

The Search with Google plugin depends on Google Custom Search JSON API which recently got replaced by Vertex AI, limiting its usefulness to only users with existing Custom search API keys.

• We need to add the Deprecation warning notice for this plugin which will be displayed in WP dashboard

Before starting the work on this, please add your time estimations for the task and get it approved by your Project Co-ordinator or Project Manager

[SH4LIN]

• Time Estimation for this task will be ~45mins.

Adding the following deprecation message:

Custom site-restricted search requires an API key with custom search enabled. For this custom search, google has stopped taking new customers so in the API request Google will return a 403 error and on the front-end, it will return an empty posts array. Read more

CC: @dhawalepranav

[dhawalepranav]

@SH4LIN

let's use the following notice. Let me know if there's anything.

Notice : This plugin uses a Custom Search API which has been deprecated by Google. Hence, limiting its use to only users with existing API keys. Any new API request to Google will return a 403 error, and it will return an empty posts array on the front-end. Read more

[SH4LIN]

@dhawalepranav

Minor change from Custom Search API to Custom site-restricted Search API