Title: searchform.php workaround
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# searchform.php workaround

 *  [e3k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e3k/)
 * (@e3k)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchformphp-workaround/)
 * instead of renaming or deleting it from my theme i did just create a an empty
   searchform.php file in the child theme folder.
 * works fine and you dont have to care about the file comming back during theme
   updates.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-search/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchformphp-workaround/)
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