Comments on: Add the WordPress search function to your Thesis header http://www.thinkdave.com/wordpress-search-thesis-header/ A Smörgåsbord of Thesis services Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: barbara http://www.thinkdave.com/wordpress-search-thesis-header/comment-page-1/#comment-6454 barbara Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:15:57 +0000 http://www.thinkdave.com/?p=1681#comment-6454 An excellent tutorial, and it actually works! I've had an unhealthy obsession about getting a search submit button into my Thesis themed blog -- http://moderncomfortfood.com -- since, oh, the day I installed Thesis. And each attempt failed until I saw your tutorial above. I have a couple of follow-up questions though: 1) I want the Thesis search form to stay in its default widget position in the sidebar. But substituting "thesis_hook_before_ sidebar_1" bumps the search form to the top of the sidebar, where I don't want it. Any ideas about how I can get the custom.php to apply to the default widget without actually moving it? 2) I've tried various iterations of substituting a 24px x 20px .gif search image for your search submit button -- a la background: url (http://.... It's not quite working. Any ideas? .-= barbara´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moderncomfortfood/~3/b9GXpMJoeJ4/" rel="nofollow">Turkey or Chicken Divan</a> =-. An excellent tutorial, and it actually works! I’ve had an unhealthy obsession about getting a search submit button into my Thesis themed blog — http://moderncomfortfood.com — since, oh, the day I installed Thesis. And each attempt failed until I saw your tutorial above.

I have a couple of follow-up questions though:
1) I want the Thesis search form to stay in its default widget position in the sidebar. But substituting “thesis_hook_before_ sidebar_1″ bumps the search form to the top of the sidebar, where I don’t want it. Any ideas about how I can get the custom.php to apply to the default widget without actually moving it?
2) I’ve tried various iterations of substituting a 24px x 20px .gif search image for your search submit button — a la background: url (http://…. It’s not quite working. Any ideas?
barbara´s last blog ..Turkey or Chicken Divan

]]> By: Dave http://www.thinkdave.com/wordpress-search-thesis-header/comment-page-1/#comment-6430 Dave Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:50:21 +0000 http://www.thinkdave.com/?p=1681#comment-6430 Hi Kim, I think that it's these simple customization elements that keep people from exploring Thesis further. Hopefully 100 or so of these tutorials will help the Thesis community to muster up some unique designs :) Hi Kim, I think that it’s these simple customization elements that keep people from exploring Thesis further. Hopefully 100 or so of these tutorials will help the Thesis community to muster up some unique designs :)

]]> By: Kim Woodbridge http://www.thinkdave.com/wordpress-search-thesis-header/comment-page-1/#comment-6429 Kim Woodbridge Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:25 +0000 http://www.thinkdave.com/?p=1681#comment-6429 This is great Dave. We really need these straightforward tutorials for Thesis. .-= Kim Woodbridge´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/upcoming-facebook-changes-to-boxes-and-the-box-tab-that-will-impact-your-custom-fan-pages/" rel="nofollow">Upcoming Facebook Changes to Boxes and the Box Tab that Will Impact Your Custom Fan Pages</a> =-. This is great Dave. We really need these straightforward tutorials for Thesis.
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