Heya, Sorry if this is in the wrong category - I wasn’t sure where it best belonged. Also sorry if this is a double post; I couldn’t find any recent mentions of this. For some time now (months?), the search experience on the docs & reference pages has felt a bit limited. As we all know, just googling “kirby xyz” often doesn’t turn up the most useful results, so I put together a small search toolbar snippet to search directly within the docs. The results are… well, they could be a lot more helpful than they currently are. eg: I tried to look up the checkboxes field, but the search doesn’t even show the page? I am fairly certain this used to work before? Or am “I holding it wrong”? :see_no_evil_monkey: That said, I really love Kirby and I’m a big fan of the project and the people behind it. The care that goes into the CMS and its ecosystem is something I genuinely appreciate, and I hope feedback like this can help make an already great tool even better. Best Gork [image]

As we all know, just googling “kirby xyz” often doesn’t turn up the most useful results My solution is searching for getkirby xzy instead. I do agree that the on-site search could be improved but personally I just never use it :sweat_smile:

hehe fair enough - I resolved to do the same, but it is just cumbersome to pick through the results to find the “correct” link… :confused:

[image] Super quick searching of docs and forum using Chrome Omnibox custom searches Solutions Being a massive fan of the custom search feature in Alfred (Mac productivity tool) I was super excited to discover Chrome has a similar feature. Scenario You’re coding away, and need to search for something. So you open Chrome, go to the docs or forum page on getkirby and then search. Using custom searches In Chrome on any page you tap into the search bar kd (Kirby Docs) or kf (Kirby Forum) then tab you can then type in your query, press return and it will open the results page. Setting up Yo…

Heya yes, I have a k shortcut for chrome - this does not solve the issue: in a search request like checkboxes the actual page that exists is not part of the results?

The thing that I find mildly annoying in the Kirby Docs / References is the order. I don’t read it from left to right. I’m always scanning from top bottom per column. Maybe I’m the weird one, but i really would prefer this order: [Bildschirmfoto 2026-07-31 um 15.11.03] Maybe in future there can be a switch-button for each individual user which sorting one prefers. (For this screenshot i just changed the ul’s display from grid to block and gave it columns:5 as additional css attribute. (:

[image] Sojahnnes: I don’t read it from left to right. I’m always scanning from top bottom per column. Maybe I’m the weird one Welcome to the community :slight_smile: You are not weird :slight_smile: i do that too and would prefer that order.

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