Lost my Search This Blog

[rshillary]

I added a few widgets to the sidebar 2 and saved. Now the original Search This Blog text and input field are gone. How do I retrieve?

Also, can you recommend a book that will teach me how to modify WP themes? I'm new and most of the talk on this forum is greek to me. I need to know simple things like how to add an image to the header and place my website (not blog) in the top right corner before the rss feed. I have Thesis hosted and running, but otherwise I know very little and don't know were to start.

Thank you.

Robin

[ehab]

Hi there rshillary !

You can learn simple (and advanced) things about WordPress here. Ofcourse, I am here to help if you cannot figure something out.


About your Search This Blog..

When you activate the widgets, your default sidebar gets lost in the jungle

Luckily, WordPress has a Search widget that you can put in your sidebar and have the search functionality back again ! Downside is that you will loose the cool looking one you had before.

You can also make yourself a nice Google-powered search for your site ! (or be lazy and use an old plugin .. )

[venukb]

rshillary,
If you still want the original sidebar with widgets enabled, edit the sidebar.php and place the original sidebar code before this line

if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(1)) :

The original sidebar code should looks like this:

<li class="widget">
							<h2>Search This Site</h2>
							<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
						</li>

Place the above code immediately below the first <ul>

Guess it should work, haven't tried, but remember it working in one of the earlier themes.

[rshillary]

Thank you Venukb and ehab! I'm working on the blog today and will put in ehab's code.

Venukb, you have no idea how scary this is for a newbie like me, so I thank you for the link. Just bought WP for Dummies. I can learn anything, but my biggest concern is the time investment to not only learn WP but Thesis as well. I need to get my blog up and running ASAP. So I may have to take it as far as I can and hire a WP guru to complete the rest. Please PM if you know of a trusted resource.

[rshillary]

Venukb- Thank you, it worked. I used the instructions for Side Bar II which is where I wanted the search widget. It actually didn't work for Side Bar I, but that's fine because I didn't want it there anyway.

Thank you!