Is there a place within the theme where I can alter the way the “search” button works? I would like “live” presentation of search results and then results listed rather than the way things are currently presented as shown in the image. The current presentation has huge images, rather than a simple list of where the search word/s are found within the site.
No currently the theme doesn’t provide this functionality as it is plugin territory but you can try achieving this either using any search plugin or developing custom code.