Expanded Search plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Ported https://github.com/composedcreative/craft-expandedsearch from Craft 2 to Craft 3. Is is an expansion of Crafts search, which gives you a context for search hits.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-beta.23 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require mustasj/expanded-search
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Expanded Search.

Using Expanded Search

In your search results template

{% set expandedResults = craft.expandedSearch.search(query) %}
{% for result in expandedResults %}
    <strong data-field="{{result.matchedField}}">{{result.entry.title}}</strong><br>
    <p>{{result.matchedValue}}</p>
    <a href="{{result.entry.url}}">{{result.entry.url}}</a>
{% else %}
    <p>Sorry, no results for {{query}}.</p>
{% endfor %}

Expanded Search Roadmap

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

• Release it
• Add handling for more fields