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# sorknes

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [When search I get forbidden 403 error mesg.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-search-i-get-forbidden-403-error-mesg/)
 *  Thread Starter [sorknes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sorknes/)
 * (@sorknes)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-search-i-get-forbidden-403-error-mesg/#post-3100433)
 * Found the problem!
 * There was an error in my searchform.php:
 *     ```
       <form action="/" method="get">
           <fieldset>
               <input type="text" name="s" id="search" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" />
               <input type="image" alt="Search" src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/images/search.png" style="background-color: black;" />
           </fieldset>
       </form>
       ```
   
 * Used this function instead:
 *     ```
       function my_search_form( $form ) {
       	$form = '<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="' . home_url( '/' ) . '" >
           <div class="searchform">
           	<label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">' . __('') . '</label>
           	<input type="text" value="' . get_search_query() . '" name="s" id="s" placeholder="Start typing here..." />
           	<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'. esc_attr__('Search') .'" title="Search my site" />
           	<div class="clear"></div>
           </div>
           </form>';
   
           return $form;
       }
   
       add_filter( 'get_search_form', 'my_search_form' );
       ```
   
 * Problem solved!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [When search I get forbidden 403 error mesg.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-search-i-get-forbidden-403-error-mesg/)
 *  Thread Starter [sorknes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sorknes/)
 * (@sorknes)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-search-i-get-forbidden-403-error-mesg/#post-3100431)
 * This is so strange. Haven’t had this problem before. Tried to google it, but 
   couldn’t find any thread about this particular problem.
 * PS.
    The search template isn’t done yet ;-P
 * Knut
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [When search I get forbidden 403 error mesg.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-search-i-get-forbidden-403-error-mesg/)
 *  Thread Starter [sorknes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sorknes/)
 * (@sorknes)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-search-i-get-forbidden-403-error-mesg/#post-3100416)
 * Thanks for your suggestion esmi, but same error occurs. Any other suggestions?

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