topic Re: Setting up a content search bar for one blog in CMS Development

Setting up a content search bar for one blog

SLee6 — Tue, 18 May 2021 18:13:49 GMT

I'm working to implement search functionality for a client's website, which has many pages and two blogs. My goal is to create a search input that, when used, returns results from just one of the blogs. Currently, my search input looks like this, adapted from the search_input module:

With this, I have limited the search results to blog posts, but how can I limit it further to just ONE blog? I am definitely in over my head, so any ideas would be appreciated.

Re: Setting up a content search bar for one blog

jonchim — Wed, 19 May 2021 12:17:26 GMT

Hey @SLee6,

You can try appending a &pathPrefix= to the form action something like this below that will only filter anything in that one blog if its something like domain.com/blog2/blog-post-name. I've done this cloning the hubspot search module but they also included javascript that you need to also include the pathPrefix as well. Not sure if you have JS in your module or if this is in your blog listing code.

Re: Setting up a content search bar for one blog

SLee6 — Thu, 20 May 2021 13:53:15 GMT

Thank you for the assist!

Yes, I am using a cloned search_input module, including the javascript.

I was able to use &pathPrefix as you suggested to filter the search results to a single blog. I implemented it a little differently:

This the search filter to display as seen below, which solves the problem!

https://www.websitename.com/hs-search-results?term=your+search+term&type=BLOG_POST&pathPrefix=blog-name

Re: Setting up a content search bar for one blog

CHugo — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:28:54 GMT

THANK YOU!! 🙏 😊

Re: Setting up a content search bar for one blog

LParkinson — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:21:38 GMT

This is a great help for what I'm looking for. But, the suggestions dropdown doesn't seem to work for me, when I start typing in the input field. They should be appended to the '.hs-search-field__suggestions' element (according to the JS).

Does this work for you?

Re: Setting up a content search bar for one blog

fair — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:06:25 GMT

I can't seem to get this to work. How do you get the blog name to populate dynamically in a blog listing template? I have a module field called {{ module.blog }} but it only returns the blog ID, not the blog name ... which I'm assuming the blog name is the same thing as the url slug, correct? I tried that and it's not working either.