Front page search box – Change to Upcoming Events

[ZeRoE]

Hi there,

Is there an easy way to change the homepage search box to show Woocommerce Featured Products instead of “I am a…” “looking for a…”?

Or if its not easy, how would it be done?

Thanks

[SQadmin]

Hi,
You can change the function that renders the search form by adding this in sweetdate-child/functions.php

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function render_user_search() 
{
    if (is_page_template('page-templates/front-page.php') AND sq_option('home_search',1) == 1)
        get_template_part('page-parts/home-search-form');
}

Try changing get_template_part(‘page-parts/home-search-form’); with what you want to show. It you want to display a shortcode you can do this:

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echo do_shortcode('[my_shortcode]');

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[ZeRoE]

Hey,

Sorry I’m not very good with PHP, I pasted the above code into functions using Dreamweaver and it’s showing a syntax error on the “get_template_part” line of text. 🙁

[SQadmin]

If you added it in sweetdate-child/functions.php it should work
Anyway that was an example how to replace the form. Another one is to modify the way you like the form template:
page-parts/home-search-form.php

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[ZeRoE]

Apologies for the delay.

I added the above code to functions, I now get “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘echo’ (T_ECHO) in /wp-content/themes/sweetdate-child/functions.php on line 50”

[SQadmin]

Hi,
I don’t know what your code looks like. Please give more details on your problems.
You should end up having:

COPY CODE

function render_user_search()
{
    if (is_page_template('page-templates/front-page.php') AND sq_option('home_search',1) == 1)
        echo do_shortcode('[my_shortcode]');
}

Like I said, this is an example and you need to put an actual shortcode there.
Regards

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[ZeRoE]

Hey sqadmin,

That works perfect, thanks!

(Hopefully) Last question – Is there any way of merging it with the original style of the original search box?

EDIT: Not last question apparently. When I try other shortcodes within the code, they align to the right of the page?

[SQadmin]

Hi,
You need to do it from css to match the our form style.
To keep the same width of as the original form you could wrap the shortcode like this:

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function render_user_search()
{
    if (is_page_template('page-templates/front-page.php') AND sq_option('home_search',1) == 1)
{
    echo '<div class="twelve columns">
      <div class="row">
          <div class="five columns">';
        echo do_shortcode('[my_shortcode]');
echo '</div>
      </div><!--end row-->
    </div><!--end twelve-->';
}
}

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