Last week we finally launched our integrated search engine, letting you easily add a fully customizable search to any of your websites.

One of the advantages of a fully hosted CMS is that we can take advantage of exciting new technologies. A CMS made to be installed on a shared host needs to stick to the lowest common denominator. We don't.

For our built-in search we've taken advantage of this and set up an ElasticSearch cluster. All content on your site gets indexed by elasticsearch and we've added a new <pop:search> tag to let you add a search to your site.

Setting up a site search is easy. Add a new template to your site called search.tpl (or whatever you prefer) and add a "Search" section to your content using this new template.

First we add a search box to our template. This is just a plain html form:

<form action="/search" method="get">
  <p class="field">
    <label for="search-box">Search: </label>
    <input type="search" name="q" value="<pop:search:query/>"/>
  </p>
</form>

Then, in the template, where you want the search results to appear, paste this code:

<pop:search>
  <h3>Got <pop:count/> results for <pop:query/></h3>
  <pop:results>
    <h4><a href="<pop:permalink/>"><pop:title/></a></h4>
    <pop:description wrap="p"/>
   </pop:results>
   <pop:pagination>
     <pop:next><a href="<pop:permalink/>">More</a></pop:next>
   </pop:pagination>
</pop:search>

That's all there is to it. You now have a fully integrated site search that you can style and design however you want.