Need to erase search box and RSS feed in header

make a backup copy of your theme files before editing

look for a matching pattern in header.php:

</h1>
   </div>
 <a href="......?feed=rss2" id="rss-feed" title="Entries RSS">RSS FEED</a>

and remove all from and including <a href= to </a>

and also in header.php, search for a pattern like this (identify beginning and end of it):

<div id="search-area">
         <form method="get" id="searchform" action="http ........ from this blog." title="Search from this blog." id="search-button" type="image"></div>
    </form>
      </div>

if you are sure you have the right code, delete it.

Thanks, I was able to get the RSS feed off but I am a little confused on getting the search box off, I can’t find a code to match like the one you have above, this is my code that involves something about a search area: Could you tell me which line I need to erase?

<div id=”search-area”>
<?php if ($options[‘use_google_search’]) : ?>
<form action=”https://www.google.com/cse&#8221; method=”get” id=”searchform”>
<div><input type=”text” value=”<?php _e(‘Google Search’,’piano-black’); ?>” name=”q” id=”search-input” onfocus=”this.value=”; changefc(‘white’);” /></div>

<div><input type=”image” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/img/search-button.gif” name=”sa” alt=”<?php _e(‘Search from this blog.’,’piano-black’); ?>” title=”<?php _e(‘Search from this blog.’,’piano-black’); ?>” id=”search-button” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”cx” value=”<?php echo $options[‘custom_search_id’]; ?>” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”ie” value=”UTF-8″ />
</div>
</form>
<?php else: ?>
<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>/”>
<div><input type=”text” value=”<?php _e(‘Search’,’piano-black’); ?>” name=”s” id=”search-input” onfocus=”this.value=”; changefc(‘white’);” /></div>
<div><input type=”image” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/img/search-button.gif” alt=”<?php _e(‘Search from this blog.’,’piano-black’); ?>” title=”<?php _e(‘Search from this blog.’,’piano-black’); ?>” id=”search-button” /></div>
</form>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

as far as i can see,
you could basically delete nearly all the code that you have posted,
just leave the last line: <?php endif; ?>

Hmmm….it took it off but distored the header a bit by making the background blend over the header…I guess I need to figure out which link got the search box off.

you accidentally deleted the end div of

<div id="logo">
    <a href="https://www.joannalynnphoto.com/"></a>
</div> <!-- this one needs to go back in -->

You mean this? </div><!– #header end –>

Thats still there, every code I tried to remove from the above message disorts the header with the background, I am stumped on this one.

i still mean this one:

<div id="logo">
    <a href="<?php ..... ?>"></a>
</div> <!-- this one needs to go back in -->

it is the one that closes the div #logo.

(the one before <div id="search-area">)

Like a dummy I actually just noticed my theme gives me the option to hide search box, so this fixed my problem, thanks for the help.