Feature suggestion: Blog post search bar

[ghost]

A search bar to more easily navigate blog posts could be beneficial when having 4+ pages.
A possible candidate for this could be Simple-Jekyll-Search. I've implemented it on my website already and think it would be a good addition to Beautiful Jekyll.

JSFiddle Demonstration (this is done with liquid and a "search.json" config file, so no results are displayed on the example)
Live Demonstration (a font would be good too)

I already have a forked version of Beautiful Jekyll with this, so I could also submit a PR.

[daattali]

Thanks for the suggestion Ethan. It's definitely a nice feature, but I generally try to avoid feature creep and keep the theme simple. If this feature can be incorporated with minimal changes and is very simple for the user to turn on/off - eg. by simply switching a config parameter, then I'd be happy to merge

[ghost]

My strategy was to create "search.html" in includes, then include it in the home layout if post_search: true in _config.yml.
(PR: #771)

[daattali]

Done in commit 950c341

I added a search button to the navbar so that the search will be available on every page and so that it will work even for people who don't use the default layout: home homepage, and so that it doesn't take up space in the middle of the page (it didn't seem right to me)

On large screens there's a magnifying glass icon at the end of the navbar:

On smaller screens with the collapsible menu, that button says "Search":

In both cases, an overlay is created that can be closed either by clicking the X button inside the input or the Escape key on the keyboard: