One of the main reasons for doing this is to keep search engines from indexing this content and keep it from being available in a search of your site.Ī reason you may want to manually publish content may be due to content that you had previously unpublished but now want your website visitors to access. Unpublishing content makes it unavailable on the front end of your website.
#OJIN SMART SEARCH UPDATE#
When you update or remove content and you do not want those items accessible on the site then you can use the option to unpublish the item from the index. When you select an index item(s), you can select one of 2 options publish or unpublish. In order to use the Actions button, you will need to first select an item listed in your index. Actions button Select an index item, then click on the Actions button Interrupting the process can create an incomplete search index affecting your site’s search results. You must wait for the indexing to complete. When you are indexing your site (by clicking this button), do not close the window indicating that the indexing is in progress. Please be aware that if you have a very large site, then some time may be required for the indexing to complete. Clicking on this button will start the Joomla indexing function that creates an index based on the content of the site. Index allows you re-index the entire site. The first option that you see up top is the Index button. The Options section is very extensive and will be discussed in a separate article – Joomla 4.0 Smart Search Options. Options and Help are global options that allow you to control Smart Search or see Joomla’s documentation on the feature. Starting at the very top of the index page, you can see a number of buttons that include Index, Actions, Statistics, Delete, Clear Index, Options, and Help. This is a screenshot of the index section on an active Joomla 4.0 site: Example of a search index This enables search engines to more easily locate content on your website. Joomla 4.0 automates this process with an active index of your content so that you do not have to click on a button to index your site.Ī site index is basically a map of your site. This was required so that Smart Search would have a reference to your newly added content. Previous versions of Joomla required that you manually index your Joomla site each time you added new content. The first item in the list is the section labeled Index.
#OJIN SMART SEARCH HOW TO#
You’ll see a screenshot of each section below as well as a description of how to use it to improve the search experience on your Joomla 4.0 site. The components that make up Smart Search in the backend of Joomla 4.0 include: Index, Content Maps, Filters, and Search Terms. Each component is described in the next section. The interface components of Smart Search allow you to manage the new and improved search feature. Click on the drop-down menu (the arrow) to see the components of Smart Search that you can manage.
In the main menu on the left-hand side of the screen, click on Components.Log in to the Joomla Administrator Dashboard.The Joomla Administrator (back end) requires that you log in to the administrator in order to access the interface where you can manage the search features. This field is where your users will type in their search query. This screenshot shows where the search field appears in the front of a published site: The Smart Search field is located in the top right corner of the site header A default installation of Joomla 4.0 includes the Cassiopeia theme. The placement of the Smart Search field in a Joomla 4.0 site will depend on the theme that you use.
#OJIN SMART SEARCH INSTALL#
When you install Joomla 4.0, Smart Search is there read for you to use! Follow the steps and screenshots below to see where to find Smart Search in both the front end and back end of your Joomla 4.0 website.
The setup has been vastly improved and no longer requires enabling components, setting up modules, and manually indexing the site. Smart Search can be accessed in the front end and back end of a Joomla site. This article will explain how to access and use Smart Search and manage its components in the backend. Performance is improved features like automatic indexing and user-generated search terms to help in quickly finding a user’s search query. Joomla 4.0 Smart Search uses article content, tags, contacts, indexing, and filters as some of the features to aid users in searching content published in a Joomla 4.0 site. Joomla 3.x included both search and Smart Search, but as of version 4.0, only Smart Search remains as part of the default install. Smart Search is an improved component of Joomla 4.0.
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