Can't remove search feature from News page

You could use CSS to display none the search widget area, hiding it from view but still rendering it to search engines.

Thanks very much – I will give this a go.

A better option than “display:none;” would be to check your themes sidebar.php file for the search code, from the source code, it doesn’t look like it is a widget.

If you only want to hide the search on the news page, find the code for the search form, then wrap it in an if/else statement.
something like this…

<?php
// If is news page, don't do anything
if ( is_page('news') ) {
 }
 // Otherwise show the form
     else { ?>

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="https://tmp.firststeptrust.org.uk/">
	<div id="search-text">
		<input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" autocomplete="off" />
	</div>
	<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="" />
	<br class="clear">
</form>

<?php } ?>

Thanks Tom – we’ll try this as well. The odd thing is that it does appear as a widget and Dashboard allows you to disable it. Maybe this widget refers to something else.