Martin Donath

Hmm, I'm unsure whether this is something that a lot of users need. Let's leave it open for a while and see whether there's some feedback from other users. >...

I want to generalize this issue to check whether users would find it helpful to index author-define document metadata with the help of the search plugin. This would address the...

There's no response from other users, so I guess this is currently not worth pursuing. I may re-evaluate this in the future, though. Closing for now.

Thanks for the input. We're actually considering making arbitrary metadata searchable with the next iteration of search. If somebody searches for "foo", but it's not contained in the text (so...

@smartYSC could you create a [minimal reproduction](https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/guides/creating-a-reproduction/) that showcases what you imagine?

Thanks! We'll investigate when working on the new search.

I've started working on the next big search update which will include the ability to list and better select available metadata like tags, authors, etc. This will allow to customize...

Could be done. Could you elaborate some use cases? Would the keywords be visible? Would they be a specific category? I'm very interested in learning about different use cases, so...

> Similar to how you can [exclude sections](https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-site-search/#excluding-sections) from search as well as whole pages, I'd like to be able to tag sections by a similar method of adding some...

In the very near future. Currently only `title`, `text` and `tags` are supported. We're working on supporting any author-defined property in front matter and for sections, and make them configurable...