tommaitland

Seems like it does the same thing. Maybe your searchform.php doesnt exist or is in a weird place

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_search_form

To display the form you use

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

To do that you need to have searchform.php, which should be part of your theme in the same directory and should look something like:

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
	<label class="hidden" for="s"><?php _e('Search this site:'); ?></label>
	<input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
	<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</form>

By editing that HTML you can add a value. I THINK that the get search form gets the results – maybe?

I’m no WordPress pro but I can help out with your first question. The way I would do it is make the page and publish it then edit your theme so in the navigation areas where you don’t want this squeeze page to show you edit the wp_list_pages tag.

Use this link to tell you how to do that, its pretty simple, just list the page ID for the page you want to hide.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#Exclude_Pages_from_List

Hope that helps!