Search box colour and text

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

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.

placeholder="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search', 'vantage' ); ?>"/>

Let us know how you get on

Magus