Docs: reconfigure search on docs site for contributing, plugins, and starters

[marcysutton]

Summary

Some commonly-searched terms come up empty even when there is content for them in a plugin. For example, when searching Google for "Gatsby createFilePath" or "Gatsby robots.txt", one can find plugins for those things (gatsby-source-filesystem and gatsby-plugin-robots-txt, respectively), but not when searching on Gatsbyjs.org itself.

It might be helpful to index packages so that Gatsby search results will include things like createFilePath and robots.txt. This has been asked before: #4028

From talking to the core team, it looks like packages were excluded on purpose; it would be good to understand the reasoning for this, as we determine the best way forward. An alternative would be to add more docs for things like createFilePath, but the question then would become "where should plugin-related docs live?"

[KyleAMathews]

Were they always excluded? I remember being able to search for packages in the past.

[marcysutton]

Looks like it was removed in September 2018, but I'm not sure why: algolia/docsearch-configs@01178d4

[marcysutton]

Something else I just noticed: the new Contributing section isn't indexed either. Do we need to add something to the Algolia search config @DSchau ?

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[jlengstorf]

I have a call with Algolia later this week — I will figure out how to actually make this fix possible.

[jackbravo]

@jlengstorf how did the call with algolia go?

[jlengstorf]

@jackbravo that discussion never ended up happening. I'm not sure where this stands; I'll defer to the Gatsby team on what next steps are.

[LekoArts]

Since www isn't public anymore I've noted this internally as a ticket.