Hugo Search

By now you are already aware that at this time, this blog is using Hugo-PaperMod as its theme. This theme, as I have repeatedly mentioned, is pretty minimalistic yet full of necessary features. One such feature is search. As this is a static website, search is implemented on the client-side. When Hugo builds the website, it generates a certain index.json that is indexed for this very purpose. PaperMod uses Fuse.js for its search. You can read all about it in the GitHub hosted documentation. ...

Featured Image is “Search!” by Jeffrey Beall is licensed with CC BY-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ In an earlier post about migrating from wordpress to self hosted on Azure, I took you through some steps to host a blog on Hugo. But I don’t know if you realised the blog didn’t have a search function. I couldn’t really search for articles! That I felt was a step back from my wordpress blog where I had the ability to search. Not just me, but you know, if anyone ever wants to search for a particular content in my blog, they really didn’t have a way to do that, unless google let them search. ...