Using Full-Text Search

Guidevera provides full-text search across all page titles, descriptions, and content. Search is available to everyone — guests can search active pages, logged-in users can also find inactive pages.

How to search

Click the search icon in the top toolbar or use the Search tab in the sidebar. Type your search term and press Enter. Results appear with the page title, status, and a highlighted text snippet showing where the term was found.

Search behaviour

Guidevera uses MySQL full-text search in Boolean mode as the primary method. Each word in your query must appear in the page (+word* matching). If full-text search is unavailable, it falls back automatically to a LIKE search. Search terms are stripped of special characters before matching.

Search filters

Logged-in users can filter search results by:

• Status — active or inactive pages
• Modified since — pages updated after a given date
• Workflow status — draft, review, published, or archived (if the review process is enabled)

No-results tracking

When a search returns no results, the term is logged. Admins can review these missed search terms on the Dashboard to identify content gaps.

Search and the keyword index

Full-text search covers title, description, and content. Keywords assigned via the keyword index are searched separately — see Building the Keyword Index.