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Sleek and Cool Search Boxes For WordPress!

by Ammar Ali on June 7, 2012 · 4 comments

I recently shared Sleek and Cool Search Boxes widget for Blogger. Response was pretty good. Lots of my blog readers asked me to provide these cool search boxes for WordPress. So today I am sharing 5 awesome, Sleek and Cool Search Boxes Pack for WordPress. Actually these are PSD source designed by Design3edge. We work hard in converting this to WordPress for YOU. Hope you enjoyed with this!

Update: For Blogspot Version Click Here!

sleek search boxes by allbloggingtips

Cool Search Boxes For WordPress?

  1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Available Widgets.
  2. Drag Text widget into a sidebar.
  3. Paste in the code.
  4. Save.

Style 1

search boxes

<style>
.search_form2 {
border-radius:10px !important;-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;
        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;
        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;
background:URL(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vGjST2sX6Ts/T88uy-eRYUI/AAAAAAAAAog/xhJ2A0nGnpw/s1600/black.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;height:50px;display:block; width:302px;}</style>
<center><form method="get" style="-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;"

 class="search_form2" action="http://allbloggingtips.com"><p>

<input type="text" id="s" style="background:transparent;
width:180px; border-radius:10px;
border:none;
margin:11px;
padding:4px; padding-top:6px !important;
padding-left:17px !important;
" name="s" value="Search in site..." onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/><input type="submit" value="Go" style="border:1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);color:#FFF!important;margin-left:3px;background:#316ca4 url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L3o3uwrf0Sk/T9CO3hbq1XI/AAAAAAAAApg/8RmMXmM6-MY/s320/blue.png) repeat-x top;display:inline-block;
border-radius:5px; font-weight:bold;
width:57px; float:right; margin-right:11px;margin-top:11px; height:30px;" id="searchsubmit"></p></form></center>

Style 2

search boxes

<style>
.search_form2 {
border-radius:10px !important;-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;
        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;
        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;
background:URL(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hxd1468RbE4/T88u0xTfk1I/AAAAAAAAApQ/BZ1WB9VG_3g/s400/whitez%2Bby%2Babt.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;height:50px;display:block; width:302px;}</style>
<center><form method="get" style="-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;"

 class="search_form2" action="http://allbloggingtips.com"><p>

<input type="text" id="s" style="background:transparent;
width:180px; border-radius:10px;
border:none;
margin:11px;
padding:4px; padding-top:6px !important;
padding-left:17px !important;
" name="s" value="Search in site..." onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/><input type="submit" value="Go" style="border:1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);color:#FFF!important;margin-left:3px;background:#316ca4 url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L3o3uwrf0Sk/T9CO3hbq1XI/AAAAAAAAApg/8RmMXmM6-MY/s320/blue.png) repeat-x top;display:inline-block;
border-radius:5px; font-weight:bold;
width:57px; float:right; margin-right:11px;margin-top:11px; height:30px;" id="searchsubmit"></p></form></center>

Style 3

search boxes

<style>
.search_form2 {
border-radius:10px !important;-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;
        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;
        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;
background:URL(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_Bf8C64sWs/T88uy_rLu3I/AAAAAAAAAow/EcYyd6sKjxA/s400/bluez%2Bby%2Ballbloggingtips.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;height:50px;display:block; width:302px;}</style>
<center><form method="get" style="-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;"

 class="search_form2" action="http://allbloggingtips.com"><p>

<input type="text" id="s" style="background:transparent;
width:180px; border-radius:10px;
border:none;
margin:11px;
padding:4px; padding-top:6px !important;
padding-left:17px !important;
" name="s" value="Search in site..." onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/><input type="submit" value="Go" style="border:1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);color:#FFF!important;margin-left:3px;background:#316ca4 url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L3o3uwrf0Sk/T9CO3hbq1XI/AAAAAAAAApg/8RmMXmM6-MY/s320/blue.png) repeat-x top;display:inline-block;
border-radius:5px; font-weight:bold;
width:57px; float:right; margin-right:11px;margin-top:11px; height:30px;" id="searchsubmit"></p></form></center>

Style 4

search boxes

<style>
.search_form2 {
border-radius:10px !important;-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;
        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;
        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;
background:URL(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T2F6d51MVw8/T88u0v_kIqI/AAAAAAAAApE/pB5bbugoVoM/s400/transparent%2Bby%2Ballbloggingtips.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;height:50px;display:block; width:302px;}</style>
<center><form method="get" style="-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;"

 class="search_form2" action="http://allbloggingtips.com"><p>

<input type="text" id="s" style="background:transparent;
width:180px; border-radius:10px;
border:none;
margin:11px;
padding:4px; padding-top:6px !important;
padding-left:17px !important;
" name="s" value="Search in site..." onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/><input type="submit" value="Go" style="border:1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);color:#FFF!important;margin-left:3px;background:#316ca4 url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L3o3uwrf0Sk/T9CO3hbq1XI/AAAAAAAAApg/8RmMXmM6-MY/s320/blue.png) repeat-x top;display:inline-block;
border-radius:5px; font-weight:bold;
width:57px; float:right; margin-right:11px;margin-top:11px; height:30px;" id="searchsubmit"></p></form></center>

Style 5

search boxes

<style>
.search_form2 {
border-radius:10px !important;-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;
        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;
        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;
background:URL(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D98wjamWcwk/T88u0dnSPuI/AAAAAAAAAo4/U4Oy3x-zhRg/s400/pinkz.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;height:50px;display:block; width:302px;}</style>
<center><form method="get" style="-moz-border-radius: 13px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 13px;        -o-border-radius: 13px;
        -ms-border-radius: 13px;        -khtml-border-radius: 13px;
        border-radius: 13px;"

 class="search_form2" action="http://allbloggingtips.com"><p>

<input type="text" id="s" style="background:transparent;
width:180px; border-radius:10px;
border:none;
margin:11px;
padding:4px; padding-top:6px !important;
padding-left:17px !important;
" name="s" value="Search in site..." onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"/><input type="submit" value="Go" style="border:1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);color:#FFF!important;margin-left:3px;background:#316ca4 url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L3o3uwrf0Sk/T9CO3hbq1XI/AAAAAAAAApg/8RmMXmM6-MY/s320/blue.png) repeat-x top;display:inline-block;
border-radius:5px; font-weight:bold;
width:57px; float:right; margin-right:11px;margin-top:11px; height:30px;" id="searchsubmit"></p></form></center>
Customization: Kindly replace allbloggingtips.com from above codes to your WP site url to make these cool search boxes to works !

  • Credits

Sleek and Cool Search Boxes For WordPress tutorial is a first time shared tutorial guide by AllBloggingTips. These scripts, widget and style sheets are provided only by ABT therefore if you wish to share this tutorial with your readers and friends then kindly link back to this post as the only favour in return. :D

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Umer June 8, 2012 at 6:30 am

This is not working well. after saving text widget, its alignment is very bad and i am getting this code line written above the search bar… class=”search_form2″ action=”http://allbloggingtips.com”>

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2 Ammar Ali June 8, 2012 at 9:51 am

Please make sure to copy above code perfectly and replace allbloggingtips.com with your current site URL. It will works :D

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3 David August 31, 2012 at 3:39 am

How do you control where the results of the search are displayed?

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4 Ammar Ali August 31, 2012 at 7:54 am

It will show up on default wordpress search page! :)

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