[rebeccadonnelly]

The search box makes my forum look cluttered and as it will be a small forum I doubt it will ever be used. Therefore I would like to delete it, i’m quite new to web technologies and am having trouble working out what bits I need to delete to get rid of it! I’m sure this would be an easy question for someone more knowledgeable to answer, so help please!

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Add to your theme’s stylesheet:

.search { display: none; }

[rebeccadonnelly]

Thanks so much, as I said I have only been doing this web stuff for a few days so even the simplest stuff evades me!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Kawauso

Is using display:none; fine as per SEO? It violates the rule of showing different content to the users than the bot.

[chrishajer]

Using display:none just hides it from display. If you want to remove it, remove the code from your template file. In the 1.0 versions it’s in header.php. Remove this stuff:

<div class="search">

<?php search_form(); ?>

</div>

That will remove the search box.