How do I change some details of the SEARCH WIDGET?

1.
try and add a filter like this to functions.php of your theme:

add_filter('get_search_form', 'new_search_button');
function new_search_button($text) {
$text = str_replace('value="Search"', 'value="Zoeken"', $text);
return $text;
}

2.
if you want to get rid of ‘entry-meta’ below the post title, try to use:
.entry-meta { display:none; }
or
.entry-meta { visibility: hidden; }

if you would like to do this only specifically on the search page, use:
body.search .entry-meta { display: none; }

Hi alchymyth,

Thanks a lot!

2. worked great! But not on all the stripes and dots. There still some there, underneath each ‘find’. I tryed to put {display:none;} behind everything starting with .entry, but that didn’t cure it, unfortunately. Do you have a tip for that also?

And about 1. Somehow when I put a functions.php into my childtheme my whole site goes blank. What do you recommend?

Thanks a lot!

There still some there, underneath each ‘find’.

i can’t find these (in IE7) – can you post a link to a page where these show?
what browser are you using?

Somehow when I put a functions.php into my childtheme my whole site goes blank.

what is the content of that functions.php?

try with the functions.php just containing the new filter, and php tags:

<?php
add_filter('get_search_form', 'new_search_button');
function new_search_button($text) {
$text = str_replace('value="Search"', 'value="Zoeken"', $text);
return $text;
}
?>

make sure there is absolutely nothing before and after the php tags.

if you simply copy the functions.php of the parent theme, this is likely to cause errors.

Thanks so much, I indeed copied the parents functions.php So that’s solved now!

Here’s a link to the page which still shows large white spaces with little dots between the search results. (I’d like to get those spaces smaller and get rid of the dots, which are remnants of info on comments):https://www.bewustzijnsvormen.nl/?s=workshop

I use Safari and/or Firefox as browsers. (Firefox doesn’t show the dots, but still the spaces are very large).

Thanks again!

try:

.entry-utility { display: none; }

the large space is also caused by the large bottom margin in:

.hentry {
	margin: 0 0 48px 0;
}

O, you’re my hero! Thank you sooooo much!