Hi Danbc,
You can modify the search form display in three ways:
1. To modify the form CSS, you can add the new CSS rules to your theme’s stylesheet
2. To modify the form HTML, you can edit the plugin file bps-search.php
3. To replace the form, you can write a custom search form as explained in the previous thread.
Of course you’ll need some CSS skills for solution 1, some HTML and PHP programming skills for solution 2, and some HTML, CSS and possibly JavaScript or jQuery skills for solution 3.
I’m not a front-end expert, and I don’t have any sample code ready, so I think this is all the advice I can offer.
I’ll leave this thread open, so other interested readers can contribute.