Example of sidebar.html Pelican template with DDG search

sidebar_example.html

<aside class="sidebar">
{% if SIDEBAR_IMAGE %}
  <section>
	  <img src="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ SIDEBAR_IMAGE }}" alt="{{ SIDEBAR_IMAGE_ALT}}" width="{{SIDEBAR_IMAGE_WIDTH}}"/> 
  </section>
  {% endif %}

  <section>
		<h1>Search</h1>  
			<form method="get" id="search" action="http://duckduckgo.com/">
				<input type="hidden" name="sites"value="mygeekdaddy.net"/>
				<input type="hidden" name="ka" value="h"/>
				<input type="hidden" name="k7" value="w"/>
				<input type="hidden" name="kj" value="#434843"/>
				<input type="hidden" name="ky" value="#F3FEF3"/>
				<input type="hidden" name="kx" value="#384338"/>
				<input type="hidden" name="kt" value="Helvetica"/>
				<input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" placeholder="via DuckDuckGo"/>
				<input type="submit" value="Go!"  />
			</form>
	
		</section>
		<section><span>
<a title="RSS Feed" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/mygeekdaddy_v2"><img style="border: 0; 
border-radius: 0px; -moz-border-radius: 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;" src="http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/rss_dark.png" alt="RSS" onmouseover="this.src='http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/rss_active.png'" onmouseout="this.src='http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/rss_dark.png'"/></a>
<a title="Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/mygeekdaddy"><img style="border: 0; border-radius: 0px; -moz-border-radius: 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;" src="http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/twitter_dark.png" alt="Twitter" onmouseover="this.src='http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/twitter_active.png'" onmouseout="this.src='http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/twitter_dark.png'"/></a>
<a title="Github" href="https://github.com/mygeekdaddy" alt="Github"><img style="border: 0; border-radius: 0px; -moz-border-radius: 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;" src="http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/github-9-32.png" alt="Github" onmouseover="this.src='http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/github-9-32-1.png'" onmouseout="this.src='http://share.mygeekdaddy.net/github-9-32.png'"/></a>
</span></section>


	<section>
    <h1>Recent Posts</h1>
    <ul id="recent_posts">
      {% for article in articles[:5] %}
      <li class="post">
          <a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ article.url }}">{{ article.title|striptags }}</a>
      </li>
      {% endfor %}
    </ul>
  </section>
  {% if categories %}
  <section>
      
    <h1>Categories</h1>
    <ul id="recent_posts">
      {% for category, articles in categories %}
        <li><a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ category.url }}">{{ category }}</a></li>
      {% endfor %}
    </ul>
  </section>
  {% endif %} 
  
  {% include '_includes/links.html' %}
</aside>