Search bar useful?

[erikmartinessanches]

Is the search bar meant to be used, for site-wide searches, considering the static nature of Jekyll? The search bar in the default Jekyll Bootstrap setup doesn't work for me.

[groundh0g]

It's a placeholder. You can implement your own, or (more likely) create a custom search with something like https://www.google.com/cse/ or ...

  <form class="navbar-form navbar-right" role="search" method="get" action="http://www.bing.com/search">
    <div class="form-group">
      <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" name="q" />
      <input type="hidden" name="q1" value="site:wikipedia.org" />
    </div>
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
  </form>

... you can replace the existing search box in _includes/themes/{themename}/default.html something like that. (Obviously, you'll need to replace "wikipedia.org" with your site.)

[plusjade]

I use https://swiftype.com/ , a javascript-based third-party search tool great for jekyll sites.

[groundh0g]

Assigned this to myself. Plan to implement a provider model similar to comments and analytics where you can pick from several search providers, or create a custom one using those as examples.

Thinking about adding the following to start.

• SimpleSearch: https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search
• SwiftType: Search bar useful? #235 (comment)
• Google: http://traceyspencer.blogspot.com/2012/02/adding-google-custom-search-form.html
• Bing: Search bar useful? #235 (comment)
• Yahoo: https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=coffee+site%3Afauxcabulary.org
• DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=coffee+site%3Afauxcabulary.org
• Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com/search/web?q=coffee+site%3Afauxcabulary.org
• IxQuick: https://ixquick.com/do/search?q=coffee+site%3Afauxcabulary.org

Feel free to comment, interject, or object.

[groundh0g]

Plugin might be too elaborate for this. I use a simple JS solution (like @plusjade). It's clean, looks nice, and just works. If I do go the plugin route, this will get bumped to next release.

[groundh0g]

Moving to FAQ / Tutorial. Great ideas, but not practical for vanilla installation of JB.