Title: Search doesn't allow input
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Search doesn't allow input

 *  [admintvc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/admintvc/)
 * (@admintvc)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-allow-input/)
 * No matter what search widget or plugin I use, I can’t use the search function
   at all. When I click on the text field, the cursor doesn’t do anything. I can’t
   type in a word. Nothing.
 * What’s weird is that nothing in the header (Gantry Framework) works–the logo 
   doesn’t link to the home page as it should, and the social media links are there
   graphically, but the links don’t appear to exist (although if I look at the source
   code, I can see and use those links.
 * The search widget is also in the header. Could that be the problem?
 * [http://tvcgrantcounty.org/public_html/develop/](http://tvcgrantcounty.org/public_html/develop/)

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 *  [Jeff F.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferytodd/)
 * (@jefferytodd)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-allow-input/#post-5090250)
 * Your theme is a commercial theme and if you take a look at our intro on the support
   homepage we don’t support commercial themes, there’s too many thousands and we’re
   just volunteers to be that smart. Please contact the theme author, they should
   be able to help you with specifics.
 * _Commercial Products
    If you use a commercial theme or plugin and need support,
   please go to their official support channel. In order to be good stewards of 
   the WordPress community, and encourage innovation and progress, we feel it’s 
   important to direct people to those official locations. Doing this will provide
   the developer with the income they need to make WordPress awesome.
 * Forum volunteers are also not given access to commercial products, so they would
   not know why your commercial theme or plugin is not working properly. This is
   one other reason why volunteers forward you to the commercial product’s vendors.
   The vendors are responsible for supporting their commercial product.
 *  Thread Starter [admintvc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/admintvc/)
 * (@admintvc)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-allow-input/#post-5090257)
 * Well, I did wonder if it was a theme problem, but there doesn’t seem to be any
   way to tell whether the problem is the theme or WordPress without asking. I design
   in Joomla, where I have never had this particular problem with the Gantry framework,
   so as a newcomer to WordPress it behooved me to post everywhere it might be possible
   to find a solution. Fortunately, my google group solved it!
 *  [Jeff F.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferytodd/)
 * (@jefferytodd)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-allow-input/#post-5090259)
 * The WordPress core goes through some pretty rigorous testing, so testing the 
   theme and plugin compatibility as well as their updates is an important step.
   I’m glad you found the solution.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jeff F.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jefferytodd/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-allow-input/#post-5090259)
 * Status: not resolved

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