Title: search button
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# search button

 *  [jonny brush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonny-brush/)
 * (@jonny-brush)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/)
 * Hi Folks at WP. Is there an easy way I can activate my SEARCH button? I’m a newbie
   and know nothing of codes or HTML. My theme is twenty eleven.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645834)
 * What do you mean by “activate my SEARCH button”? The Search is enabled by default
   in a **unedited** copy of Twenty eleven.
 *  Thread Starter [jonny brush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonny-brush/)
 * (@jonny-brush)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645845)
 * Sorry Esmi, Mine dosen’t seem to work. It’ probably me being silly again!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645855)
 * And this is exactly why we try to tell people that they should never edit the
   default Twenty Eleven theme. The changes you have made may well have caused the
   problem. I’d suggest that you re-upload a fresh copy of the Twenty Eleven theme(
   which will wipe out all of your changes) and then start your customisations again
   using a child theme.
 *  Thread Starter [jonny brush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonny-brush/)
 * (@jonny-brush)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645858)
 * Yes, I think you are right Esmi. I’ll probably do that. What is a child theme?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645864)
 * See [child themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
 *  Thread Starter [jonny brush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonny-brush/)
 * (@jonny-brush)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645870)
 * Thanks Esmi, I’ll need to do a bit more learning But I’m sure I’ll get there 
   in the end. Just for now we can manage fine without the ‘search’ working. I’ve
   got loads to learn.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-button-3/#post-2645870)
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