Styling Search Page Results - Thumbnails & Source links

Site URL: https://cinnamon-gold-cr9n.squarespace.com/

Hey there,

I'm building a website for someone that is using a lot of affiliate links. Instead of selling her own items, we are using blogposts to show a picture and the source URL for the affiliate link. On the pages of the website, this is working as planned.

But she wants to make it so that when someone searches, the results show a lot like the summary blocks that we use for the regular listings. Ideally we would be able to show blog thumbnails in a grid, and that when someone clicked the image or title, it would take them to the source URL rather than the blog itself. I've attached a screenshot of the current layout. 

The website is at https://cinnamon-gold-cr9n.squarespace.com/ and the password is "known".

Thanks in advance for any help!!

Seth

@tuanphan I'm just tagging you in here because I feel like you always help me resolve my problems! 😂😇 Thanks in advance! 🙏

Hi. I have no idea to solve this.

you can post on some FB groups
+ Squarespace Customization Resource Groups
+ Squarespace Community

Hi @tuanphan - Cool, thank you for connecting me with these other resources. Appreciated!

On 4/17/2021 at 12:58 AM, sethhoffman said:

When someone searches...we would be able to show blog thumbnails in a grid, and that when someone clicked the image or title, it would take them to the source URL rather than the blog itself.

It isn't possible to do this, even with code. This is because the built-in search function returns very basic results and they don't include the source URLs. 

Thanks for the response @paul2009   
 

Do you know of any search plug-in that I could add to square space that isn’t native to square space? Perhaps some thing that index is your site and shows other results?

On 4/18/2021 at 5:36 PM, sethhoffman said:

Do you know of any search plug-in that I could add to square space that isn’t native to square space?

There are many [expensive] search replacements that can add better search facilities.

It may be worth improving filtering and categorisation of products, rather than adding search. For example, allowing users to filter by 'size', 'colour', 'brand' and so on, in addition to product categories like 'Dresses'. 

Thats a really good idea @paul2009 thank you!

On 4/22/2021 at 8:51 PM, sethhoffman said:

Hey folks -

I found someone who was able to implement a solution that works great for us. It's called Algolia (https://www.algolia.com/). Super fast search, customized layout, AI powered for typos.

We're launching the site next week at http://www.sarahs.co.uk 

Thans

Hi Seth, I'm seeing that your Sarah website launched was great with Algolia Search. I wonder if you can show me how to import data to algolia search. 

I'm trying to implement something similar but I'm not sure how. May I ask if you could show me your process?

Thanks you so much!

On 4/22/2021 at 8:51 PM, sethhoffman said:

Hey folks -

I found someone who was able to implement a solution that works great for us. It's called Algolia (https://www.algolia.com/). Super fast search, customized layout, AI powered for typos.

We're launching the site next week at http://www.sarahs.co.uk 

Thans

Hi Seth, did you use crawler for indexing the data?