remove the search box

kufner · Member · Sep 21, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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Hi,
im using a Theme: 2813 by Eli, Neil, and Paul.. blog @ wordpress.com and I would like to remove the search box from my page(if it’s possible?) there is no search widgets in my sidebar…(so i can’t remove it from the side bar) and anyway the search box is still present on the main page
vivianpaige · Member · Sep 21, 2008 at 5:27 pm
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Can we have a link to your wordpress.COM blog?

Do you have the CSS upgrade?
jimbcantrell · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 7:10 pm
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Hi everyone,
This is an issue I would like to solve. By default I have a search bar on my blog. It has a default message “Not Found, Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.” How can I get rid if this message without getting rid of the search bar?

For anyone who can shed some light on this, our blog is at: http://expressivearth.wordpress.com/

Thanks for any feedback!
Jim
vivianpaige · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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Jim – your problem is not the search bar. Your problem is that you have no posts on your blog. Once you post an entry (not a page), that message will go away.
justjennifer · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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@kufner, it looks like the search box is hard-coded into that theme. I just checked my own blog using that theme.
andrew · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 9:04 pm
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I don’t understand why you’d want a blog without a search box. I’d say that every web site, blog or not, should have a prominent search box. (But I never use words like every and never.)
kufner · Member · Sep 27, 2008 at 7:42 am
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@vivianpaige
my blog is kufner.wordpress.com …and i don’t have a CSS upgrade (is this a problem?)
tnx
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 27, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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@kufner
The searchbox and button can be removed with the paid CSS upgrade. Not recommended unless you have experience with CSS.
vivianpaige · Member · Sep 27, 2008 at 3:06 pm
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@kufner – please consider linking your blog to your user name as shown here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-make-your-name-link-to-your-blog?replies=54 It makes it easier for volunteers in the forums to help.

You cannot remove the search box without the paid CSS upgrade. And if you don’t already know CSS, then I would strongly suggest that you not buy it. There is no official support for CSS and only a few volunteers in the forum are well-versed in it.

I have to agree, though, with everyone else: removing the search box is a bad idea. Blog readers are used to seeing it on a blog. Heck – I use mine on a regular basis to find my prior posts that I need to link to.
kufner · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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I add my blog page to my name… it should work now
I’ll wait before I upgrade to CSS :) tnx for help!
andrew · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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@vivian: excellent point. I too use the search box on my own blog. If I, who wrote the content, can’t find stuff in it without a search box, it seems unlikely that anyone else can!
powermad80 · Member · Oct 3, 2008 at 12:39 am
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So we can not remove the search form without paying, well that sucks,
raincoaster · Member · Oct 3, 2008 at 12:40 am
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You can just change your theme for free.
powermad80 · Member · Oct 3, 2008 at 12:45 am
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Can we at least change the text on it???? I’m really sick of seeing the text that appears in the search form in copyscape when I check for plagiarism on my blog.
powermad80 · Member · Oct 3, 2008 at 12:46 am
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And I do not want to change my theme.
raincoaster · Member · Oct 3, 2008 at 12:51 am
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Then you need to come to terms with the theme that you have chosen.
powermad80 · Member · Oct 3, 2008 at 1:06 am
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actually I just solved my problem by putting a widget in my “sidebar 2”.

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