how to get rid of search box on all pages

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  andih94 · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 2:17 am

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  Hi, I’m building a site for a new business and I don’t want a search box as there’s (as yet) nothing to search for and it looks stupid… how do I get rid of it?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 3:44 am

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  Remove the search box widget(s) from sidebar and or footer widget areas. If applicable, disable the theme option of displaying a search box in the header area.

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  andih94 · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 3:45 am

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  thanks. I’ll give that a go

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  andih94 · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 3:54 am

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  Tried it but it seems not to be optional. I can’t reach it to delete it.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 5:07 pm

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  Let’s see what using search produces.
  search string:
  remove search Twenty Eleven site:en.forums.wordpress.com
  search results take us to https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-remove-search-box-from-twenty-eleven-menu-bar-1?replies=4#post-1377259

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  timethief · Member · Dec 5, 2014 at 5:12 pm

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  You can’t remove the searchbox in the Twenty Eleven theme without the paid Custom Design upgrade. You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and navigate to > Store > My Upgrades and purchase the custom design upgrade to remove the searchbox form the

  Payment method details are here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable custom and CSS editing:
  Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/

  Please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need.