Hiding Search Bar

Hi Kimberly,

Surely! I assume you are using a widget/block in the header, but the header is globally displyed everywhere, so you probably can’t adjust that there. However it might still be possible via a custom code.

I have looked up your home page, it’s ID is 389, so I made a custom code snippet for you, which will check the current page ID, and if it’s not 389, then will intercept the search shortcode and will not print it.

Try adding this code via the Code Snippets plugin or to the functions.php file in your theme/child theme directory – make sure to have a full server back-up first for safety. For more details you can check the safe coding guidelines.

add_filter( 'asp_shortcode_output', function( $output ){
	if ( get_the_ID() !== 389 ) {
		return '';
	}

	return $output;
} );

Sure!

I assume you only want to apply this rule to the first search bar (id=1), then this modified version will do the trick:

add_filter( 'asp_shortcode_output', function( $output, $id ){
	if ( $id != 1 ) {
		return $output;
	}
	if ( get_the_ID() !== 389 ) {
		return '';
	}

	return $output;
}, 10, 2 );

Well, this might be better to control via a plugin instead of a custom code.

Are you using some sort of a block in the header? I’m asking because there is this plugin, which may do exactly what you are looking for. Would that work for you?

Sure, we can try that!

Okay, so with this, the first search (ID=1) on pages 13702 and 2428 should be hidden. Should no affect any other search bars:

add_filter( 'asp_shortcode_output', function( $output, $id ){
	if ( $id != 1 ) {
		return $output;
	}
	if ( get_the_ID() == 13702 || get_the_ID() == 2428 ) {
		return '';
	}

	return $output;
}, 10, 2 );

That very likely means that the search ID is incorrect in my code. Which search bar is the one in the header? I assumed “HomePage Search” from the screenshot, which had the ID=1.

I don’t know then, the conditions look okay to me. The first condition terminates when the search ID is not 1, aka for all the other search instances in every case.
Then it goes further down to check the page IDs.

If you want, I can check directly – but I need temporary back-end and sFTP access to make changes to the code. Can you please add those?

With your code variation it happens because the function first checks the page IDs, and when they match, it terminates empty (meaning that the search is not visible).
The search ID is only checked afterwards and at that point it does nothing whatsoever as on both condition the function terminates with the same output.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Ernest Marcinko.