Overview
Exploring Webflow's native plan's search feature
In this video, I dive into a cool feature of the CMS plan that enhances our ability to search through data entries.
I'll walk you through how to add and customize a search component to make our web content more accessible and user-friendly. By the end of this video, you'll understand how to leverage the search tool within the CMS plan effectively. You'll learn how to add a search component to your entries page, adjust the site search settings for each page, and manage the indexing of your entries. This feature ensures that your web content is searchable and organized, providing a smoother user experience for those navigating your site.
Summary
- Adding the Search Component: I demonstrate how to add a search component to the entries page by selecting the plus icon and moving the search bar to the top of the page. This allows users to search for specific keywords within the pages and templates created.
- Configuring Search Settings: The video covers how to access the site search settings by clicking on the settings of any page and toggling the option to include or exclude the page from search results.
- Customizing Search Results: Learn how to stylize the search results page using Webflow's collection list wrapper to display results in a grid format. Adjust the number of results based on the length of the search results.
- Understanding Indexing: Explanation of the indexing process, which can be done manually once a day on the CMS plan or more frequently on higher plans. This step is crucial for ensuring that new entries or posts become searchable.
- Performing Manual Indexing: I show how to manually index data entries by selecting the "index now" option and waiting for the system to upload and process the data.
- Live Search Preview: Demonstrating a live search preview by typing a keyword into the search results wrapper settings and instantly seeing the indexed results.
- Publishing the Changes: Finally, I publish the changes to see the search functionality in action on the live site.
Highlights
🔍 Search Component: How to add a search component to your entries page and place it effectively.
⚙️ Site Search Settings: How to toggle the search settings for each page to control what gets indexed and searchable.
🕒 Indexing Entries: Understanding the indexing process, its limitations based on your plan, and how to manually trigger indexing.
Overview
Exploring Webflow's native plan's search feature
In this video, I dive into a cool feature of the CMS plan that enhances our ability to search through data entries.
I'll walk you through how to add and customize a search component to make our web content more accessible and user-friendly. By the end of this video, you'll understand how to leverage the search tool within the CMS plan effectively. You'll learn how to add a search component to your entries page, adjust the site search settings for each page, and manage the indexing of your entries. This feature ensures that your web content is searchable and organized, providing a smoother user experience for those navigating your site.
Summary
- Adding the Search Component: I demonstrate how to add a search component to the entries page by selecting the plus icon and moving the search bar to the top of the page. This allows users to search for specific keywords within the pages and templates created.
- Configuring Search Settings: The video covers how to access the site search settings by clicking on the settings of any page and toggling the option to include or exclude the page from search results.
- Customizing Search Results: Learn how to stylize the search results page using Webflow's collection list wrapper to display results in a grid format. Adjust the number of results based on the length of the search results.
- Understanding Indexing: Explanation of the indexing process, which can be done manually once a day on the CMS plan or more frequently on higher plans. This step is crucial for ensuring that new entries or posts become searchable.
- Performing Manual Indexing: I show how to manually index data entries by selecting the "index now" option and waiting for the system to upload and process the data.
- Live Search Preview: Demonstrating a live search preview by typing a keyword into the search results wrapper settings and instantly seeing the indexed results.
- Publishing the Changes: Finally, I publish the changes to see the search functionality in action on the live site.
Highlights
🔍 Search Component: How to add a search component to your entries page and place it effectively.
⚙️ Site Search Settings: How to toggle the search settings for each page to control what gets indexed and searchable.
🕒 Indexing Entries: Understanding the indexing process, its limitations based on your plan, and how to manually trigger indexing.
