Our web projects don’t normally take this long, but we are lucky enough to stay busy bees. So much so any self promotional work always takes a backseat.

With each design revision the look and feel gets more simplistic, yet somehow involves more thought and work? The design of our new website as all our work started as pencil sketches, and was thoroughly planned before we hopped on Photoshop to start creating the design.

As with previous versions of our website, we have kept things very clean and minimal. We have done some nice work and we want that to do the talking!

Hope you enjoy!

Here is a little insight into the design process (paper based layouts) and how the design developed

1. To limit the page revisions, or even disable the revision open wp-config.php.
2. Add these links to the bottom of wp-config.php

	define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5); // Maximum 5 revisions per post
	define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false); // Disable revisions

3. Save the file and replace it on the server.

Adding these lines of code will only allow 5 post revisions. This will keep your database a lot less clunky storing all of those endless page revisions. To disable the revisions simply change the word ‘false’ to ‘true’

Instead WordPress will render its built-in search form by calling it using the function. To edit the forms appearance we can simply use the style sheet using .widget_search #s and input[type="text"].

OK, now to and add the value to the search box. You can do this by editing the default wordpress file general-template.php, which can be found in wp-includes/general-template.php. Once you find the file, open it up in a simple text editor or software package such as adobe Dreamweaver to edit the code.

To edit the search form we are looking for the following block of code:

$form = '<form role="search" pmethod="get" id="searchform" action="'
. home_url( '/' ) . '" > <div><label for="s">' . __('Search for:') . '
</label>
<input type="text" value="' . get_search_query() . '" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'. esc_attr__('Search') .'" />
< /div>

</form>';

To add a value to the search box simply remove the value “.get_search_query().” and replace the value with what ever you would like it to be, for mine I changed it to “Type here & Hit Enter…” you can see the change in code below.

$form = '

<form id="searchform" action="' . home_url( '/' ) . '" method="get">
<div><label for="s">' . __('Search for:') . '</label>

<input id="s" name="s" type="text" value="Type Here &amp; Hit Enter..." />
<input id="searchsubmit" type="submit" value="'. esc_attr__('Search') .'" />
</div>
</form>';

This complete’s the editing of the file, you can now save the file and upload it to your server replacing the original general-template.php with your newly edited one, having access to this form code will also allow you to add custom class’s for more bespoke styling. Thanks for reading.