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For question and troubleshooting Simple Jekyll Search.

If search isn’t working due to invalid JSON

There is a filter plugin in the _plugins folder which should remove most characters that cause invalid JSON. To use it, add the simple_search_filter.rb file to your _plugins folder, and use remove_chars as a filter.

For example, in search.json, replace:

"content": "{{ page.content | strip_html | strip_newlines }}"

with

"content": "{{ page.content | strip_html | strip_newlines | remove_chars | escape }}"

If this doesn’t work when using GitHub pages you can try jsonify to make sure the content is json compatible:

"content": {{ page.content | jsonify }}

Note: you don’t need to use quotes " in this since jsonify automatically inserts them.

Enabling full-text search

The “full-text” search as to look in the content of the post and not just the title, as well as the pages. You could also add another loop for the collections. Replace search.json with the following code:

---
layout: none
---
[
  {% for post in site.posts %}
  {
    "title"    : "{{ post.title | escape }}",
    "category" : "{{ post.category }}",
    "tags"     : "{{ post.tags | join: ', ' }}",
    "url"      : "{{ site.baseurl }}{{ post.url }}",
    "date"     : "{{ post.date }}",
    "content"  : {{ post.content | strip_html | strip_newlines | jsonify }}
  } {% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}
  {% endfor %}
  ,
  {% for page in site.pages %}
  {
    {% if page.title != nil %}
    "title"    : "{{ page.title | escape }}",
    "category" : "{{ page.category }}",
    "tags"     : "{{ page.tags | join: ', ' }}",
    "url"      : "{{ site.baseurl }}{{ page.url }}",
    "date"     : "{{ page.date }}",
    "content"  : {{ post.content | strip_html | strip_newlines | jsonify }}
      {% endif %}
  } {% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}
  {% endfor %}
]