Enabling search for pages?

After re-reading the documentation, it seems like enabling / disabling search is only possible for posts (at least the Search: metadata documentation explicitely mentions posts).

Is there a reason why pages can not be searched, even if Search: yes is set? It seems somewhat counterintuitive to me, especially since the whole codebase for parsing, indexing etc. is already in place and Search: could simply default to no for pages. Also, like mentioned above, pages are often "abused" for stuff which should be searchable.

Good catch! I will ensure that if you opt-in to search for a specific page via metadata, that page is always indexed by your site's search engine

This should now be fixed – if you edit the page to trigger a rebuild, it should now be indexed by your site's search engine

This works yay! I noticed the date is excluded from shown results (which do show up for posts). Is there a way to ensure dates are shown, too?

Thanks. Ray

Pages don't have dates by design – I'd argue if you want dates you should use posts? You can still add a link to a post to your site's menu. Happy to listen to an opposing view, but in my mind datelessness is an important attribute of a page (as opposed to a post), e.g. an about or contact page.

I am using pages for my Zettelkasten which will have a lot of atomic entries and I keep blogging regular posts in addition to it which is why I have it separated like that.

It's truly not a big deal though, I agree with your sentiments.

Ray