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Change Text of Search Widget

By Vaclav Demling, 10 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 10 years ago.
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Hi,
I am using Vantage Premium and I would like to change the text that appears in the search widget, i.e. from “Search” to something else (e.g. “Suche” in my case, as it’s a german website). How can I do that?

Thanks.

Vaclav

URL: http://lektorat-demling.de/

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  1. 10 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Vaclav

    Thanks for running Vantage.

    This is a default WordPress widget unfortunately without any options like changing the placeholder text. There is probably a better way of doing this but here is how I solved the problem locally now.

    1. I installed this plugin so we can paste PHP into widgets: https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/
    2. I inserted our new widget Enhanced Text Widget into the footer widget area.
    3. I then inserted the search form code into that widget as follows:

    <form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">    <div>        <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" placeholder="Search" />        <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />    </div></form>

    Now you can replace the placeholder=”Search” with placeholder=”Suche”.

    Hope that helps.

  2. 10 years, 10 months ago Vaclav Demling

    Hi Andrew,

    that did the job, thank you very much.

    Vaclav

  3. 10 years, 10 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Super, glad to hear that did the trick. All the best.

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