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Hello. I'm making a site that reviews products and I want a separate blog for each specific type, so there will be 3 different blogs. I also want a portal that has the 5 latest posts from each blog AND a search box that is able to search each blog separately, but from the portal page. I think I know how to get the latest posts from each blog and post them on the portal page, but I'm not sure about the search boxes. I would need 3, and each would search it's own blog.

Thanks!

Add a searchform.php to your main portal theme with as many searchforms with urls and ids pointing to your blogs. And then use the default search widget in a sidebar. Here's a start...

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://panda.myblogs.tld/">
<div><input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Panda" />
</div>
</form>

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://eats.myblogs.tld/">
<div><input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Eats" />
</div>
</form>

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://shoots.myblogs.tld/">
<div><input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Shoots" />
</div>
</form>

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://leaves.myblogs.tld/">
<div><input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="And Leaves" />
</div>
</form>

Thanks, it worked.