Allow searching of pages & posts

[daviddarnes]

I've been using this JS plugin with a documentation site, which meant I needed to search through pages rather than posts. This is the code I used:

---
title: nil

---
{% assign items = site.pages %}
[
    {% for item in items %}{% if item.url != '/search.json' %}{% if item.url != '/css/screen.css' %}
        {
            "title"    : "{{ item.title }}",
            "content"  : {{ item.content | jsonify }},
            "url"      : {{ item.url | jsonify }}
        }{% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}{% endif %}{% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
]

I've swapped the posts for pages, but using an assigned variable so I'm not repeating myself. I've also used the jsonify filter to clean up the content and url incase it has anything that will clash with json syntax.

The only problem is that I had to exclude the search.json and the outputted CSS using two conditional statements, I'm not sure why it thinks they are pages. Thoughts?

[absolutejam]

I don't know if this is what you're after, but have you tried using for {% page in site.html_pages %}?

I'm trying that approach and it seems to also include my .md pages (I'm guessing it's because they become .html once served). I don't know if this is standard behaviour, or if it's because I have supplied the 'permalink' front-matter on them (Eg. permalink: /about/ in about.md).

I have however had issues with using the above approach as it seems to ignore the limit argument, so I always have 10 suggested items (Which is too many for my liking). If I use just site.html_pages or use it along side site.posts, I get this issue.

My code is:

---

---
[
  {% for post in site.posts %}
    {
      "title"    : "{{ post.title | escape }}",
      "category" : "{{ post.category }}",
      "tags"     : "{{ post.tags | array_to_sentence_string }}",
      "url"      : "{{ site.baseurl }}{{ post.url }}",
      "date"     : "{{ post.date }}",
      "formatted-date" : "{{ post.date | date: '%b %-d, %Y' }}",
      "type"     : "Post"
    },
  {% endfor %}
  {% for page in site.html_pages %}
  {
    "title"    : "{{ page.title | escape }}",
    "url"      : "{{ site.baseurl }}{{ page.url }}",
    "type"     : "Page"
    }{% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}
  {% endfor %}
]

[daviddarnes]

This looks pretty good! Thanks for your reply. Due to the project I am working on I have had to make a slight modification to how the json file outputs, I've had to figure out a way to exclude pages from the search. Here's what I have currently:

---
searchable: false
---
{% assign items = site.pages %}
[
    {% for item in items %}{% if item.searchable == false %}
        {
            "title"     : " ",
            "content"   : " ",
            "url"       : " ",
            "searchable": "{{ item.searchable }}"
        }{% else %}
        {
            "title"     : {{ item.title | jsonify }},
            "content"   : {{ item.content | jsonify }},
            "url"       : {{ item.url | jsonify }},
            "searchable": "{{ item.searchable }}"
        }{% endif %}{% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}
    {% endfor %}
]

Due to how the loop works I couldn't exclude 'non-searchable' pages from the json file as the forloop.last would then be incorrect and the trailing comma would sometimes fail to appear.

I believe I also had the 10 items limit issue, my new sample code avoids that but in not really in a clean way.

I'm sorry to go into so much detail with my case use, but I feel that explaining my real world usage of the plugin it will help with its development.