Currently Ghost doesn’t have a search functionality, and search functionality is expected out of the box from most of the users. At least the ones I encounter. I use the GhostHunter plugin for my projects but it is not ideal as it only supports English. Any ideas and solutions are welcome.

Good news! Today we shipped a native, official Search feature in Ghost. Works across all sites and all themes, right out of the box :slight_smile: [image] Native search We've just introduced native Search in Ghost to give your readers fast and intuitive access to find content anywhere a…

I have built a solution which we use on our blog at ciserro.com/blog , which i have shared as a gist . since we don’t use the frontend of ghost in our webapp (written in React), integrating this with your ghost installation is up to you, but this is a solution anyone can use with self hosting. It use…

Thanks! I haven’t forgotten about this. I’m finishing the case study this week, but adding some detail. I’ll post the link here when it’s done, but, tldr: set up Google Custom Search, use the REST API to make the request, when you get the response, parse the links for slugs. With an array of slugs, …

Makes sense! Should be reasonably straightforward. Thank you for your willingness to share more detail when you are able! Chris

I wrote an article on Medium about this. Here’s how I added Google Custom Search to The Portland Pour . @cmckulka Adding Google Custom Search to a headless Ghost blog with a React/Redux front end | by Tony M | Medium

Great article!! Will definitely be leveraging your lessons learned as I integrate search into my site! Thank you for offering this to the community. Chris

@tonym because you are kinda locked in at medium.com

I came across GhostFinder and it’s very elegant, using the Ghost2.0 Content API https://electronthemes.com/blog/add-search-option-to-ghost-theme/

[image] dsecareanu: Can you provide more info on how you integrated Algolia search with Ghost? Hi, sorry if I answer you just now, I wanted to send you updated links to the algolia code, unfortunately I can’t. I was also flagged by the community without an apparent reason

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tonym April 17, 2019, 12:53am 30

Why not?

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