Comments on: WordPress Search Widget – How to Style It

By: Todd M.

Todd M. — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:07:13 +0000

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

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:33:33 +0000

Hello Karen,
That text is usually part of the theme templates. For simpler themes, it can be found in the index.php file in your theme directory. However, this is theme dependent and can be set in any of the theme files.

By: Karen Clark

Karen Clark — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:03:25 +0000

Thanks this is awesome! I’m also trying to figure out how to add text to the “Sorry, but no results were found.” page when they come up empty handed. Have any idea? I want to add something saying they can suggest a blog post topic if they don’t find what they are looking for. I can’t find where that text lives! LOL Take it easy and thanks for all your hard work!
Karen

By: Em!l

Em!l — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:41:17 +0000

Thankyou so much. This helped a lot. It took awhile before I realised the problem with hiding the Doctype in IE. I put the Hide Search text script in the footer instead. Thanks a lot!

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:00:45 +0000

But anyway, it’s a good tutorial. Esay to understand, easy to read. Nice job. Thanks

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:59:10 +0000

You can also add a text-indent css property and use overflow hidden to hide the text.

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:08:50 +0000

Thanks! This is a great solution.

I will have to update the tutorial at some point.

By: @metacowboy

@metacowboy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:01:25 +0000

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;
}

By: @metacowboy

@metacowboy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:23:12 +0000

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 .

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:55:59 +0000

Thanks for your help! I’ve been scratching my head trying to resolve this for ages!