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Change search box

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Matt Fletcher
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

How do I change the default search box to the woocommerce search

So when is use the search box it shows up like the woocommerce search widget.

I have tried editing searchform.php so that it includes the default search markup but this doesn’t seem to change anything.

Is there anything else that I could do.

Alternatively is there any way of getting a woocommerce search widget which has been added to the header can be displayed on the menu bar.

Thanks for any help.

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Matt

    At this stage the header search can only be turned on or off. It’s unfortunately not possible to swap that out without child theming and some code understanding. What you could do is turn search off under Theme Settings and then use the header widget area to insert the WooCommerce widget you require.

    There is unfortunately no widget area in the menu at the moment.

  2. Matt Fletcher 11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Andrew would you be able to explain how to do it or link to how to do it with child theming as described above as I feel I have a good understanding of the code.

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 4 months ago

    To keep changes upgrade safe you’d create a child theme:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Then you’d create a folder called “parts” in your child theme and copy menu.php from the same folder in your parent theme to your child theme. So copy menu.php from parts folder in the parent theme to the same location in the child theme. Copy and paste. Not cut and paste.

    Lines 11 to 13 hold the form. You’d need to look into changing the form to search products.

    I’d suggest rather researching a plugin like this: https://searchwp.com/ .That’s premium but there could be a free option out there.

  4. Matt Fletcher 11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks Andrew

    I have actually found my own solution by adding the widget to the header and then using translate and changing the z index so that the search box sits ‘above’ the menu.

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 4 months ago

    Awesome, glad to hear you found a solution that works. All the best.

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