A Duh! moment – better widgets

For a relatively intelligent person (qualified for Mensa, albeit before kids and other brain challenging occurences), I still have some of those duh! moments, where you realise something and wonder why you had not figured it out before?

I always knew that there was a lot that one could do with text widgets and the way that wordpress works, and yet I still found myself wishing that the search widget was different and not wanting to hard code the code in the theme, but have it work across themes etc etc etc….

And then the light bulb lit up:

For a cleaner leaner search widget that says “search”, not “find”, create a text widget and enter:

<form id="searchform" action="" method="get">
<input id="s" type="text" tabindex="1" size="16" value="" name="s"/>
<input id="searchsubmit" type="submit" tabindex="2" value="Search" name="searchsubmit"/>
</form>

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