Familiar Formatting
eeSiteKit starts by reformatting EE’s default search results for you so that they look and function more like the big commercial search engines with a hyper-linked title, excerpt paragraph and a permalink. We also include the channel name and the date the entry was last updated. And, search results paginate to avoid excessive page scrolling. Your site visitors will feel right at home and know immediately how to use this familiar layout to find what they are looking for.
Smarter Search Results for ExpressionEngine
When Only a Localized Search Will Do
While nothing beats the power of a Google-type search engine, there are times when you can’t have an outside search engine crawling parts of your site, or you want the efficiency of ExpressionEngine’s quick keyword search querying your database. For these times, eeSiteKit’s smarter search results may be just what you’re looking for.
Smarter Return Links: The magic is in eeSiteKit’s return links. Rather than have every return link take the visitor back to a single-entry page to view an entry, eeSiteKit evaluates where the content was originally posted in the website, and tries to send the visitor back to that same level and page of the site. So if the entry originally appeared on the landing page of a channel, eeSiteKit creates a search result return link that takes the visitor back to the landing page of that channel to view the entry. It does the same for entries appearing on category and single-entry-level pages of the site. When eeSiteKit is unsure, or if the entry has extended content, it takes the visitor back to a single-entry page.
To see how this looks, visit our demo site and search on the word “kit” and you’ll find return links back to several levels of the site: demo.eesitekit.com.
While at the demo site, take note of the built-in search-result Pagination, “Last-Updated” entry stamp, and Channel Labels too.
Multilingual Ready: eeSiteKit’s search result page will also attempt to display content in the language selected by the visitor at the time of the search, not just the site’s host language. If the visitor was viewing your site in Spanish, then the search results page will attempt to show search results in Spanish if there is translated content available. It will also link the visitor back to the Spanish version of the content if the search result was in Spanish. This is true for any language correctly configured in eeSiteKit. To see how this works, please visit the following link (in the Spanish part of our demo site) and search on “Usted puede;” all your search results will be in Spanish: demo.eesitekit.com/multilingue-channel/pagina-del-canal-multiling%C3%BCe.
