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How do I change the text that already stands in the search box? Right now it says search in a grey colour.
Hi Kathleen
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 Andrew does it.
1. Install this plugin so we can paste PHP into widgets: https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-text-widget/
2. Insert the new widget Enhanced Text Widget into the widget area.
3. Insert 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.
Magus
It’s not a widget, it’s the search item in the menu.
Hi Kathleen
My apologies, I thought you were referring to the search box in your sidebar. To change this text please add a copy of the file searchform.php from the Vantage theme into your Child Theme. Once done please navigate to Appearance->Editor and select the searchform.php file for editing.
Please look for this section in the text and change the Search term to whatever you require.
Let us know how you get on
Magus