Hi

Currently running bbPress 2.6.4 and would like to understand how to remove / hide the default search bar that appears at the top of the Forums page listings

I have in a side bar widget set-up ‘GD Power Search for bbPress’ – (works very well), just need to remove the Search bar from the top of the Forums page as looks out of character for my forum

Forum is https://uktechhub.com/forums/

Thanks

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

put this in the custom css of your theme

#bbpress-forums #bbp-search-form {
	display: none !important;
}

[@uksentinel Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Robin, tried the custom CSS and it worked, thank you

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

🙂

[@uksentinel Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Robin, just cleared the cache and found that via GD Power Search for bbPress plugin, the default search works, but when I then select advanced search, the page/script for advance search does not appear. Home › Forums › Search ?

I have left it running an my site incase you get a chance to try for yourself, you do not need to be a forum member for searches etc on my site ?

https://uktechhub.com/forums/

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

hmmm… css won’t do it then.

you’ll need to amend content-archive-forum.php in your child theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

delete line 17

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-archive-forum.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

[@uksentinel Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Understood, will give this a try

Thanks

[@uksentinel Participant 4 years, 9 months ago]

Just as an update, editing the content-archive-forum.php file worked and the GD Power Search for bbPress plugin now works as expected

Many thanks for your guidance

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 9 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed !!

[@flamuren Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

Hello. I am trying to understand how to remove the search bar from the forum but not for the sidebar (where I want it to be all the time). If I uncheck “allow forum search” in the admin panel in WP both disappears. Is the only other way the above way?

I am asking before doing anything, because that sound really difficult to me with zero experience with coding or webpages. I am learning by doing 🙂

[@uksentinel Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

You and I both 😉

Try the first option: as it does depend on your Theme

i.e go to your Dashboard > Appearance > Customise > Additional CSS and cut and paste the following in there (exactly as it is)

#bbpress-forums #bbp-search-form {
display: none !important;
}

[@flamuren Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

Oh my! Many thanks uksentinel! That worked for taking away the search bar above the forum and keeping the sidebar.

Offtopic/sidenote: for every thing I do on my page I feel really proud of my self. Never knew I could even get a site up and running. Now I am doing code (however with extremely good guides from you guys ofc!) and I feel amazing 🙂 Thank you for helping out!

[@uksentinel Participant 3 years, 10 months ago]

life is a journey 😉

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 10 months ago]

@flamuren always good to help others – I did my first site in 2012, and it’s great to get things doing what you want – hope you carry on enjoying the challenges 🙂