Gabe Ormsby
In certain contexts such as a department intranet, site-specific search indexing may be disabled (e.g. via RobotsTxt settings.) In those cases, presenting a search box in the header may lead to confusion, as users may expect it to provide on-site search. Currently we can disable the UMN Search module, but that causes a persistent error when the theme renders each page. I propose:
  • Adding a theme setting for 'disable umn search box in header';
  • Adding a check in folwell.theme to decide whether to render the search box element, rather than as currently, rendering it unconditionally; and
  • Adding a conditional check in the header include file to output the search box only if it is defined.