Comments on: WordPress Search Widget – How to Style It

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!

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:38:30 +0000

Thanks for the update Maarten.

Your site looks great – love the design.

By: Maarten

Maarten — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:25:51 +0000

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.

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:27:57 +0000

Great that you got it to work! You have some great artwork and designs.