Thanks for this, helped me out. I’d still love a PHP snippet for it to insert in custom page templates!

Smal mode to your code at point 4 instead of adding javascript add that before the php end braket of the funktion.php ?> will work and dont brake xmlrpc.php funktion (by sweeper)

// Remove SEARCH Text with GO in Search Box

add_filter(‘get_search_form’, ‘new_search_button’);
function new_search_button($text) {
$text = str_replace(‘value=”Search”‘, ‘value=”Go fetch”‘, $text);
return $text;
}
<?

Lovly post and got a realy nice search Box with you help. the only problem now occur is that the point 4. funktion to remove the Search text will brake XMLR. It got renderd . Have to remove it for now . Probably you could test it by yourself posting from Google Docs via Xmlr or any other client .

Thanks for the fix, though in my case I had to look for something else.

In later versions of WordPress there is no searchform.php. What I did to remove the ‘search for’ text was the following:

I went to the general_template.php file; there you look for the search form if there is no searchform.php. Somewhere between line 124 and 170 depending on which version of WordPress one uses.

I deleted the following part:
‘ . __(‘Search for:’) . ‘

This worked for me. Hopes this helps people.

FYI http://www.2travel4ever.com is still being filled with content.

The code added to my functions.php completely messed up my headers. Don’t know exactly what is going on, but I am stuck with the “search” text now. Any other options on removing this? When I create a searchform.php it doesn’t seem to search my site ver well.

Hooray for you! I searched for a long time and there was very little online about customizing search bars in wordpress!! Feeling grateful!

cool tutorial…thanks

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Would you have any advice on how to handle editing the search widget if there is no searchform.php file in the theme I am using (I use Matala theme)? Keep in mind that my experience level with HTML is elementary
Thank you!

Very useful!! Thanks very much

i have tried this. thank you

Most useful!

Thanks!

Great tutorial, really helped me out in styling my search bar to better fit the WordPress blog I was theming. Thanks a lot!