How to Change Search Placeholder input Text in Genesis Theme

Search this website – have you seen it? Ok let me remark you where you have already seen this, right. In the genesis theme search box the only place you can get it. Sometime we want to change it for our requirements. But unfortunately, it was not the option to change it.

Change Search Placeholder input Text in Genesis

Hope you have also get this problem to change search placeholder input text on the genesis theme. There are some security issue to change it with free genesis theme. You can take their premium version to get all the functionalities. But what to do in the free version.

As well it is also default in the premium version that “Search this website”. No matter what was in the genesis premium but we have to change it as our norm. It depends on us how to design a theme – that’s the eve why MMM(MakeMeMax) love to genesis.

Now time to change the “Search this website” as we want but before you have to acquire the knowledge to the functions.php file. You should have basic knowledge on HTML, PHP, JAVA etc.

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Let go for the child theme files in genesis theme.

Way to get the functions.php file in genesis,

After getting on theme editor, you reached at the theme editor’s default section. Now you have to go on the functions.php file, like here,

Ok

Now you are on the right place to do your work for the change the search input text. It is time to get the codde which we have put for you in below.

/** Customize search form input box text */
add_filter( 'genesis_search_text', 'custom_search_text' );
function custom_search_text($text) {
    return esc_attr( 'Search text goes here...' );
}
Just copy the above code and put it on the below part of your functions.php file.
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After placing the code, need to update it Then it will pop you with,

“File edited successfully”

All done….

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Changing a search box in genesis theme may be easy with this post.

Let’s check the search box text to see the result reflect.

Ok, nice to get it on my search with the text,

“Start Typing…”

Last words

Hope this post will provide value for you to change search placeholder input text. The same process will be followed on all genesis child theme.

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