Remove search button – available help does not work

widget:

<div id="search" class="widget widget_search">
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="https://halcyonrealms.com">
<div>
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</div></form>

and it doesnt look a bit like what’s on that other site.

1. are you using a widget? cuz thats a widget.
2. are you using a cache plugin, like wp-cache?

Thank you so much for the fast reply.

I just found out it’s a widget alright.

How may I remove the search button in this case ?

?? I edited my post but you caught it before it changed ??

If its a widget isnt it there listed in presentation –> widgets or whatever that page is?

Hello. Yes its a widget named “search” and can be found under presentation >> widgets.

However, it doesn’t seem that I can edit it in anyway.

you dont edit it.. you drag it off the sidebar – the same way you drag on and off other widgets ??

Hmm…maybe I’m lost here, but if I drag this widget off the search function disappears right ?

Does it then mean that if I want a search function without the search button I will need a non-widget search ? How do I implement one ?

the default k2 install comes with a search, I see it in the sidebar.php inside the zip.

the default k2 sidebar includes a search, and its a widget:

<?php /* Widgets/SBM Check */ if ( !(function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') and get_option('k2sidebarnumber') > 0 and dynamic_sidebar(1)) ) { ?>
<div id="search"><h2><?php _e('Search','k2_domain'); ?></h2>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
	</div>
...

Im going to bet thats whats making your search. so I was right above 2x .. its a widget and its the k2 search.

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What I would do is remove the widget and add the search out of the default theme to my sidebar.php. Then I would make the changes like you see on that other site. Maybe you can just copy that completely into your sidbar, I dunno, I didnt look that hard.

Hello, I am going to try the changes that you have advised, thank you so much for your help ! I will post again to let you know if it went smoothly.

Thank you so much again !

Hello. I have tried to implement the changes but now my searchbar is not showing. This is what I have done.

1) I removed the k2 search widget ( dragged it off )
2) I removed this k2 search widget code from sidebar.php :

<div id=”search”><h2><?php _e(‘Search’,’k2_domain’); ?></h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>
</div>

3) I added this search code from wordpress’s default theme
back into sidebar.php

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>

4) I changed the code for my searchform.php from the website in my first post.

What did I do wrong ? Thank you so much for your help again !

hang on ?? im doing it now ..

ok, heres my k2 sidebar.php:

https://www.village-idiot.org/broke/sidebar.txt

it looks like this:

https://www.village-idiot.org/ bigboxasdfasdasd/

the other thing I had to do was remove the call to the javascript inside header.php. Just remove this bit:

if (get_option('k2livesearch') == 1) {
		wp_enqueue_script('k2livesearch');
	}

once youve done that, then you can do those other changes.

remove the spaces in that url if you want to see, I dont want that indexed by google so i broke it.

Hello and thank you for investigating ! I will try to fix it again !

Hello I have found a simple solution to remove the search button for the search widget :

In the wp-includes folder ( in your wordpress installation folder ), open widgets.php and look for the wp_widget_search function definition block (around line 405 or so). Within the definition block, look for this line:

<input type=”submit” value=”<?php echo attribute_escape(__(‘Search’)); ?>” />

Simply edit the “submit” and change it to “hidden”, save, refresh your browser, and the submit button should be hidden now.