Is there a theme without a "search" feature?
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Hi,
I’d like to use a theme that doesn’t have a search box on it but can’t find one. Does anyone happen to know of one?
Thanks!
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Coraline, I believe, only has a search feature if you choose to have a widget there. I’m pretty sure Ocean Mist is the same. I think there are more themes that have the search box as optional than not.
It may be a default widget in many themes, but it can easily be removed. (You can find out about how to work with widgets, including how to remove them, here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/
Personally, I like it when I go to a site and see a way to search the site for what I’m looking for, especially if it’s a large site (or, in the case of a blog, a blog with hundreds of posts). But I guess it depends what the purpose of the blog is.
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Mystique has a similar look to the theme you’re currently using, and it has a search box that is removable (it’s one of the default widgets, but you can easily get rid of it). http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/mystique/
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@dkjensen
I’d like to mention that all WordPress.com users when logged into WordPress.com have a gray navigation bar and it has a searchbox on it. Therefore if your do remove the search widget or find a theme that doesn’t have a built in searchbox do be aware that we can still use the one on the navigation bar to search any free hosted WordPress.com blog with. All public blogs hosted by WordPress.com are indexed and can be searched via http://search.wordpress.com/
More information here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/ -
Thanks! I like the look of Mystique and if the search box is a removable widget, that will work just great for me. :)
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Thanks – the search bar is only removable if you don’t use a sidebar, only a single column layout. But that works just fine for my purposes.
I have another question – is it possible to have my tags not show up? I don’t see any way of setting that.
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There is a theme called iNove you can use that has the Theme Option feature that can suppress the display of categories and tags.
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Thanks, but that theme option only works if you go to a one-column layout and remove the sidebar.
And, it has a search box. ~sigh~
I guess I’ll go back to Mystique.
Thanks everyone for your patience and help!
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Hi! To remove the search box in Mystique & still have the sidebar, simply drag a widget — any widget, even an empty text widget will do — into the sidebar. I tested it in my testblog and by adding a widget that I “wanted” into the sidebar, I was able to get rid of all of the default widgets. So you can have a sidebar with no search box — or, as you say, you can have a full page layout with no sidebar & no widgets.
If you don’t want to have tags showing, you can simply not assign tags, but the categories will always show.
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From the themes I’ve tested, dragging a new widget into the sidebar will always get rid of all the default widgets, which you can add back when you want them later. Right now, in my test blog using Mystique, I have a sidebar with nothing but the calendar widget in it.
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The way we have always used is what you point to. To eliminate the display of any widgets in a sidebar you install a text widget with no title and no content save and close.
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Thanks everyone – you’ve been very helpful. I’m pretty much a newbie here on wordpress.com so don’t know some of these tricks.
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