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Change Text of Search Widget

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Vaclav Demling

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

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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Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago
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.
Vaclav Demling 11 years, 5 months ago
Hi Andrew,
that did the job, thank you very much.
Vaclav
Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago
Super, glad to hear that did the trick. All the best.

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