Hello, How do I remove search function in the homepage from the Wordpress theme that is bought from the developer? Is there also a general practice that Developers would not allow changes make to their original theme and have some built-in measures to discourage modification. Please enlighten me and million thanks in advance!
Regarding your second question, yes I have run into themes that have built-in measures, mostly if you try and remove links to the developer. The best way would be to edit the theme itself, do you know where this search function is located and which file? If it is in the header of the site, try looking at the header.php file and comment out the search and see if that helps. Have you tried contacting the developer and asking them if they would tell you how to do this?
If you want to hide the search box you could modify the CSS and set the search form to display: none; That would be the easiest. (I just tested it. Very easy.) If you want to disable search or remove the search box from the HTML, you will have to modify the template file(s).