Using MeiliSearch with Pelican

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Photo credit: SI Janko Ferlic (Unsplash license)

In my previous post, I mentioned about MeiliSearch. Let's have a short article on how to integrate it with my theme.

Edit: This post was edited for MeiliSearch version 0.13.

Part I: MeiliSearch

Meilisearch is written in Rust. Possible solutions for hosting it are VPS, serverless hosting and docker. Here is the link for official installation guide.

Steps for setting up Rust

  1. Get a release binary from the official web site
  2. Start up the …
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Further improved the new theme

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Making changes to the Bootstrap 4 theme

In the previous article, I mentioned the blog was migrated to use Bootstrap 4. Here are some new changes:

  • Removed Font Awesome and use Feather Icons instead. But the icon for Reddit is missing in Feather Icons.
  • Removed the need of the CSS from the Slate theme. Now I only need to use the original bootstrap.min.css and load my own nero.css file.
  • Fixed the Scroll Spy, it is now working for articles …
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