Title: Search Bar Issue
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Search Bar Issue

 *  [sirdavid93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirdavid93/)
 * (@sirdavid93)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-bar-issue/)
 * I am using the Genesis Theme.
 * I just used the template from my parent theme to get my search bar up and working.
 * However now when i attempt to search something, no matter what i put inside of
   the search bar, it searches as if the search bar was empty.
 * If i just hit enter in the search bar, then it will return my placeholder text“
   search”
 * You can try it out for yourself at blog.tryessential.com
 * How can i fix this issue?

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 *  [Will Schmierer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/officialwill/)
 * (@officialwill)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-bar-issue/#post-7356408)
 * Looks like perhaps you left some placeholder text of “search” in place in your
   search form. I think you’d want to look into this and replace the word search
   after the semicolon with something like this. Hope this helps.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_search_query](https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_search_query)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Will Schmierer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/officialwill/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-bar-issue/#post-7356408)
 * Status: not resolved

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