choose your homepage and search settings pop up

Indexing, and controlling what is “searchable”Īn index is the content and pages in your search engine, which controls what content people can search across when they submit a search on your site. Learn more in the indexing section below. To preview and style real search results, publish your site to create a search index. Until you add CMS or Business hosting and publish your site, you will see sample results - not real results from your site. ‍ Preview results before going live to see how results look for different queries. Similarly, you can set a custom search description and a search image for each of your pages, or pull in that content from the SEO description and the OG image. For Collection Pages, this content can be pulled from any field, similar to how you’d configure SEO and Open Graph settings. You can control what content displays for the search title in the Page Settings for all of your site’s static pages and Collection Pages.

Alternatively, you can choose to connect this paragraph to a custom description, which you can set in your page settings.

You can control the length of this snippet in the Settings.

Snippet (paragraph): The context from the page where the searched term appears.

Page URL (text block): The slug of that page.

This title acts as a link to that page by default.

Search title (link): The title for that page, pulled from whatever you’ve set as the Search result title in the Search section of that page’s Page Settings.

To begin with, your search results have a basic structure of elements, which you can rearrange, restructure, or remove as you see fit: To see real search results, you’ll need to add CMS or Business hosting to the site. Need to know Unhosted projects and projects with Basic hosting will show sample search results on your published site - which you can show to clients to give them a sense of how their search experience will look. However, the search results come with a basic starting structure, and have a few other new controls. Styling search results works a lot like styling a Collection list, with styles applied to one result item applying to all other result items in that list.

You can change the structure of this page however you’d like, along with the styles, which we’ll get into below. ‍ The starting point for a search results page, with sample results populated to let you start designing before you publish your site.

Choose your homepage and search settings pop up