How to customize a search box

By Rob Tanner
October 7, 2018, 1:29 am EDT

I have found very little WordPress documentation for setting up and configuring a search box and most of what I have found doesn't match my site so I presume it was written for older, perhaps 3.n versions of WordPress (I'm running 4.9.8). And I haven't even found a mention in the UUA theme pages. I created a search template and created an empty page using the template. What I get is a bare bones search box, works fine but looks ugly and the search button is misplaced and non-functional. Click on https://macuuf.org/search/ to see what I mean.

I would like to perhaps change the background from white to something else and perhaps add some interesting links. I also want the search button to the immediate right of the box and switch from a button containing the word "search" to some sort of yet to be determined button icon. But I have no idea where to find any documentation on how to do that. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Rob Tanner, UUFM, McMinnville, Oregon

email: webmaster@macuuf.org