I Kind of Miss Search
I've started to miss being able to search my blog. I've got nearly 700 posts over 12 years of writing. When it was running on Wordpress, search came for free because it's all in a database. When I moved to static, I lost that option. I think my categories and tags are pretty good, but if I want to reference something I've already written (or even check if I've already written something) I need to to Google, use the site:blog.ohheybrian.com trick, and then go through results. Not ideal.
I came across webdix a few months ago and this looks like a workable option. I like that it uses SQLite and that it's processed on the server and that I could write some custom functions against the database.
Another option is an official pelican-search plugin which uses Stork to generate a search file that's then indexed and searched with some Javascript. They also have a WASM option, so that might be fun to try out.
I may also be overthinking all of this.
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