Herbie Simplesearch Plugin

Simplesearch is a Herbie plugin that allows you to provide your website with a simple but useful search engine.

Installation

The plugin is installed with Composer.

$ composer require getherbie/plugin-simplesearch

After that, the plugin can be activated in the configuration file.

plugins:
    enable:
        - simplesearch

Configuration

Under plugins.simplesearch.config the following options are available.

Template paths to twig templates:

formTemplate: @plugin/simplesearch/templates/form.twig
resultsTemplate: @plugin/simplesearch/templates/results.twig

Use page cache, if caching is enabled:

usePageCache: false

Page properties

With the page property no_search individual pages can be excluded from the search. The page properties for such a page look like this:

---
title: My page
no_search: true
---

A complete search page looks like this:

---
title: Search
cached: false
hidden: true
---

# Search

{{ simplesearch_form() }}

{{ simplesearch_results() }}

Demo

A live demo can be viewed at https://herbie.tebe.ch/search