M.Anderson is asking about using multiple indices with the Discourse Algolia plugin, specifically to include two external WordPress indices alongside the default Discourse indices for a unified search experience. They suggest displaying results from different indices in separate groups, similar to Algolia’s multi-index search patterns. M.Anderson references Algolia’s InstantSearch.js documentation and example UIs to illustrate the desired functionality, questioning whether the current plugin supports multiple indices or if this would require a new feature or modification to the existing discourse-posts index.
Hi,
I would like to use multiple indices in my discourse algolia search. I have the three general discourse indices and would like to include two new ones, coming from wordpress, to have a search connection to our documentation.
How can I configure discourse-algolia to show search results from all indices?
Here is one example:
First index is showing community-content, like we have now.
Second index is showing external page. For each new index other then discourse we could show a new grouping. Maybe we could insert a list, which indices we would like to show on frontend to not use all existing ones available within search-API.
Maybe it is possible to reach such a goal using multiple indices. Algolia themselves are also having such a search, even with a preview.
Algolia has a UI & UX Pattern for this using InstantSearch.js:
So the question is: What can we offer right now with plugin discourse-algolia?
