Add tags matches to search

Glark

I've been playing around with Flarum all day (it's really nice BTW!) and I have a suggestion to help discoverability and make stuff easier to find when you have oodles of primary categories to present to your users. If the search results could match on tags too it would make finding a known quantity easier.

For example: my site has an area for each TV show people are talking about. That's a lot of tags and if they could just type "Game Of Thrones" and see the tag/category for that... boom.

I mocked it up here.
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srjrol

Glark I love this idea. I know you can search tag:tag_name but for searching multiple tags I could really use this capability.

Wellwisher

srjrol I didn't know you can search like that. Thanks for the search tip buddy. That's a genius little feature.

srjrol

@Wellwisher I actually just found that it works alongside keywords or multiple tags too.
tag:name tag:name2 keyword

Wellwisher

srjrol You sir deserve a medal. This ought to be in the search tips or something. This search tip is so hot that it's melting the polar ice-caps. You're the reason for global-warming my friend. 😍 Good job. Thanks for sharing.

I think what will be good is to have this option "selectable" in some sort of a filtered search like so:

For searching in tags, you could auto complete tags word selector and scroll through the whole tags lists and choose them manually

clarkwinkelmann

This discussion attempted to list the available search gambits for Flarum https://discuss.flarum.org/d/28333-flarum-search-tips-and-tricks

It's difficult to make a proper list because each extension comes with its own gambits so not all gambits might be available if the extension providing it is disabled.

There could definitely be some sort of autocomplete for gambits in the search bar. An extension should have access to all the data needed to implement it. I really like how Discord implemented their search gambits but I know it would be a lot of work to implement something similar in Flarum, because it requires replacing the simple input of the text search with a texteditable element and a lot of logic. There are most certainly libraries to achieve it but that would likely cause the Flarum javascript bundle size to increase significantly if we were to do this in core.