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WordPress: my Search widget is lost... how to fix?

Asked by PupnTaco (13895points) September 6th, 2008 from iPhone

I know there are WordPress forums, but the crowd over there is more than a little assy.

I changed my home directory at pupntaco.com and since then, my sidebar search widget won’t appear. I’ve scoured all the PHPs and CSS files and can’t find anything (handcoding is not a strength).

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jrpowell's avatar

<!—<div id=“nav”>
<div id=“nav2”>
<ul class=“nav2”>
<li><a href=“http://www.pupntaco.com”>Home</a></li>
</ul>

<form method=“get” id=“searchform” action=“http://www.pupntaco.com/”>
<div><input type=“text” value=”” name=“s” id=“s” />
<input type=“submit” id=“searchsubmit” value=“Search” />
</div>
</form>

</div>
</div>—>

Uncomment that part and see if it helps. I don’t know the structure of your site so I can’t say in what exact php file that is in.

http://www.pillowpersuasion.com/pics/pup.png

PupnTaco's avatar

Thanks JP, I’ll let you know.

jrpowell's avatar

Do you mostly do design and graphics? In the the future could you possibly be open to doing a few jobs? Or is your plate full?

PupnTaco's avatar

PM sent. :)

PupnTaco's avatar

Nope, that didn’t fix it. Must be buried in some obscure place, I can’t figure it out.

Here’s what WP had in searchform.php (minus the commenting):

<—-!<form method=“get” id=“searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/”>
<div><input type=“text” value=”<?php the_search_query(); ?>” name=“s” id=“s” />
<input type=“submit” id=“searchsubmit” value=“Search” />
</div>
</form>—->

jrpowell's avatar

Your problem is starting here…

<!—<div id=“nav”>

That shouldn’t be in searchform.php

This is what my searchform.php looks like.

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