How to prevent Enfold adding ?s= to search url

Hi,

Please use this code in your child theme functions.php to remove the search icon (from the menu):

add_action('init', 'avia_remove_search', 10); 
function avia_remove_search()
{
	remove_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'avia_append_search_nav', 9997, 2 );
	remove_filter( 'avf_fallback_menu_items', 'avia_append_search_nav', 9997, 2 );
}

You can then add the search widget to the sidebar to display the standard wordpress search form.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

You can try to add following code to the child theme functions.php – it will add a rel=nofollow attribute to the search icon in the menu and will discourage search engines to follow/index the /?s url of the search icon.

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'avia_append_search_nav', 9997, 2 );
add_filter( 'avf_fallback_menu_items', 'avia_append_search_nav', 9997, 2 );

function avia_append_search_nav ( $items, $args )
{	
  if(avia_get_option('header_searchicon','header_searchicon') != "header_searchicon") return $items;
  if(avia_get_option('header_position',  'header_top') != "header_top") return $items;

    if ((is_object($args) && $args->theme_location == 'avia') || (is_string($args) && $args = "fallback_menu"))
    {
        global $avia_config;
        ob_start();
        get_search_form();
        $form =  htmlspecialchars(ob_get_clean()) ;

        $items .= '
 	<li id="menu-item-search" class="noMobile menu-item menu-item-search-dropdown menu-item-avia-special">
            <a href="?s=" rel="nofollow" data-avia-search-tooltip="'.$form.'" '.av_icon_string('search').'><span class="avia_hidden_link_text">'.__('Search','avia_framework').'</span></a></li>
';
    }
    return $items;
}

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
Who claims I’m not reporting it back to our developers? I already wrote a fix and ask the developers to include it with the next update. The reason why we’re delaying the upcoming update at the moment is the new envato update api which must be included with the next update (otherwise this and the next update wouldn’t work with the automatic update feature and we want to avoid this situation).

Best regards,
Peter