Title: searchform.php
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# searchform.php

 *  [joshwine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshwine/)
 * (@joshwine)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchformphp-3/)
 * So I recently updated the theme for my site ([sharethebonus.com](http://sharethebonus.com))
   and the placeholder text I had in the in the searchform went away. I can’t figure
   out why because I have a searchform.php in my child theme that should have kept
   it the same. Even worse I can’t seem to add the custom text back even when I 
   change the parent theme’s searchform.php. Any ideas?
 * Here is the code:
 *     ```
       <form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>">
       	<button type="submit" class="search-submit"><i class="icon-search"></i></button>
       	<label>
       		<span class="screen-reader-text"><?php _ex( 'Search for:', 'label', 'marketify' ); ?></span>
       		<input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="search for referral codes!" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_search_query() ); ?>" name="s" title="<?php echo esc_attr__( 'Search for:', 'marketify' ); ?>">
       	</label>
   
       	<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $type ); ?>" />
       </form>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [joshwine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshwine/)
 * (@joshwine)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchformphp-3/#post-6926213)
 * me sad no one comments on me post 🙁

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 * [search bar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/search-bar/)
 * [searchform.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/searchform-php/)

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 * Last reply from: [joshwine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshwine/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchformphp-3/#post-6926213)
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