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.

Configuration

The following options are available in the configuration file.

return [
    // a comma-separated list of plugins to be activated
    'enabledPlugins' => 'simplesearch',
    'plugins' => [        
        'simplesearch' => [
            'config' => [
                // path to twig form template
                'formTemplate' => '@plugin/simplesearch/templates/form.twig',
                // path to twig results template
                'resultsTemplate' => '@plugin/simplesearch/templates/results.twig',
                // use page cahe if global caching is enabled
                'usePageCache' => false,
            ],
        ],
    ],
];

Please note that the above configuration is only part of the overall configuration.

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