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Search

Roe has built-in site search¹. There are two ways search shows up on your site:

1. the always-present global search in the header
2. an optional collection search icon you can add to any collection.

Options

You do not have to configure any of these. Search works out of the box. These options just give you control over what’s searchable and the context (scope) for search itself.

Site-wide settings

Set these in Admin → Settings → Search (or directly in site.yml).

Option	Description
search_all_pages	false/unchecked (default) only pages linked in your navigation/footer. true/checked every published page.
search_roe_docs	false/unchecked (default) excludes Roe’s own documentation from search. true/checked includes it.
Show results before typing	false/unchecked (default) no results when search is opened true/check see results immediately, then filter as you type.

What is in search results

Search follows the same rules as the status and audience for pages, posts, products:

Content	Shows up in search?
status: published	Yes (posts, products, documentation)
Pages	Only those in nav/footer (unless search_all_pages) is on
status: draft status: unlisted	No
audience: paid	No, unless Show paid content is set to true, then previews show up in search

Tip: mark any single page or doc unlisted to keep it out of search, regardless of the settings above.

Global search

The header search icon is always available. When clicked, it’s smart about scope: it starts filtered to whatever you’re currently looking at, shown as a small removable label. If there are no labels, that is full site search.

Automatic scope

You’re on…	Search starts scoped to…
A documentation page	documentation
A product page	products
A post	that post’s type (article, podcast, …)
A collection page (/collections/…)	that collection’s source / post_type / tags
A page with a search_scope: in its frontmatter	that scope
Anything else	Everything (site-wide)

Clear the label and you’re back to searching the whole site.

Search result labels

Each result carries a small type label — page, doc, prod., or a post type like podcast. On a site-wide search you can click a result’s label to add that filter to your search and narrow the results. Click the × on an active label to remove it.

Scope options

A scope is any combination of:

Kind	Option
Sources	posts, pages, documentation, products
Post types	article, audio, video, podcast (and any custom types)
Tags	include tags: music, or excludetags: -music

Page-level scope

To scope the global search for a particular page, add search_scope to that page’s frontmatter. You can add multiple options separated by commas; you can combine source & post_type.

---
title: Shop
search_scope: products
---

↑ On this page, the global search starts filtered to just a products label, which can be easily removed for global search.

Collection search

Any Collection can show its own search icon that opens the global search pre-scoped to that collection’s filters. Just add search: true to your Collection options.

Option	Required	Description
search	No	true adds a search icon beside the collection, scoped to its source, post_type, and tags

Because it reuses the collection’s own filters, the search always matches what the collection shows, i.e. podcast episodes, with music tags.

Examples

Search your journal (posts tagged journal) right from where it’s listed:

```collection
heading: Journal
source: posts
tags: journal
search: true
```

Search your documentation:

```collection
source: documentation
template: links
search: true
```

Search a product catalog:

```collection
heading: Store
source: products
template: grid
search: true
```

CSS

Elements related to search are semantically classed:

• .site-search
• .site-search-overlay
• .site-search-input
• .site-search-results
• .site-search-context-label
• .site-search-trigger
• find site-search in your theme’s CSS to edit how this looks/feels

---

Advanced: the search block (experimental)

There’s an experimental search block for embedding a scoped search trigger directly in your content. Its exact behavior is still being refined, so it isn’t recommended for general use yet — prefer collection search (search: true) for now.

Example:

```search
scope: documentation
```