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What

New opt-in showAuthorProfiles. When the query matches a contributor's name, matching authors (avatar + name) link to their Ghost profile page.

  • Data: Ghost's public GET {adminUrl}/ghost/api/content/search-index/authors/?key=…, the endpoint Ghost's own search uses. It returns url, so custom routes are respected. No schema change and no reindex.
  • Key discovery: data-key / data-sodo-search are read from Ghost's search script tag, at load and again right before cleanupGhostSearch() removes it. This covers both sodoSearch__url and Code Injection installs. Optional ghostContentApiKey / ghostUrl override them.
  • Fetching: lazy on first open, once per page session, and cached in sessionStorage (only successful loads). A failure is not retried on that page and leaves post results untouched.
  • Matching: case- and accent-insensitive word prefix, at least 2 characters, at most 3 results; every query word must prefix a name word.
  • Modal (list and grid): an Authors group above results, reachable with the arrow keys.
  • Palette: a separate Authors group of profile links above Posts. Enter navigates; modifier-click opens a new tab. The facet-based "Filter by author" group is unchanged. Respects showGroupLabels.
  • Discovery: an author strip above the results (Tab-reachable). Author names in the preview byline become profile links.
  • New i18n key authorsGroupLabel. Initial-letter fallback when profile_image is null.
  • Playground: a toggle, a Vite middleware mock of the endpoint, an injected Ghost-style script tag, and seed authors including one on a custom route and one without an avatar.

Why

Ghost's built-in search lists matching authors with links to their profiles; sites that switched to this widget lost that. The index stores author names only, so the URL has to come from Ghost. Indexing slugs would mean a reindex of every collection, and Ghost has no author webhooks to keep a separate collection fresh.

Verification

  • search-ui: npx vitest run passes (260 tests: new authors.test.js with 25 and authors-init.test.js with 3, plus palette/discovery additions). Lint is clean, build succeeds.
  • Playground smoke in Chromium:
    • One request to the authors endpoint, cached under mp-search-authors:<origin>, and the sodo tag removed.
    • Modal list: "ja" shows Jannis above the posts, and ArrowDown reaches the author first. Modal grid: "zoe" matches Zoë Ångström with the initial fallback.
    • Palette: group order Authors, Posts, Filter by topic, Filter by author.
    • Discovery: strip plus byline link to /author/jannis/.
  • Not unit-tested: the document.currentScript path, where the widget's own tag carries the key. jsdom can't simulate it; the query-selector path is covered.
  • README docs (option, overrides, i18n key) and CHANGELOG [Unreleased] entry added.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Search can optionally show up to three matching author profiles in the modal, palette, and discovery views. Author names link to profile pages, including in discovery bylines, and profiles support keyboard navigation.
    • Added an “Author profiles” option to the playground.
  • Documentation
    • Documented the author profile option, its configuration, and translation label.

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📝 Walkthrough

Adds opt-in author-profile results to the search widget. It loads Ghost author data using script-tag credentials or explicit configuration, caches the list for the session, and matches names locally. Matching profiles appear in the modal, palette, and discovery layouts. The playground includes a mock endpoint and configuration control.

Changes: Author profile search

Layer / File(s) Summary
Load, match, and render author profiles
packages/search-ui/src/search.js, packages/search-ui/src/styles.css, packages/search-ui/src/__tests__/authors*.test.js, packages/search-ui/README.md, CHANGELOG.md, README.md
The widget captures credentials before removing the Ghost search script, loads and caches the author list, and matches names case- and accent-insensitively. Matching profiles render in the built-in modal and join keyboard navigation. Tests cover loading, matching, rendering, and failure cases. Documentation describes the configuration and translation key.
Display profiles in palette and discovery
packages/search-ui/src/layouts/{palette,discovery}.*, packages/search-ui/src/__tests__/{palette,discovery}.test.js
The palette adds an Authors group with profile navigation. Discovery adds a matching author strip and profile links for matching preview bylines. Tests cover display states, navigation, escaping, and late profile updates.
Exercise the feature in the playground
apps/playground/index.html, apps/playground/src/*, apps/playground/vite.config.js, apps/playground/README.md
The playground adds an author-profiles control, saves and restores its value, and injects a Ghost-style search script tag when enabled. Its mock server provides author-index responses and configured avatar SVGs.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Visitor
  participant SearchWidget
  participant GhostAuthorIndex
  participant SearchLayout
  Visitor->>SearchWidget: Open search and enter a name query
  SearchWidget->>GhostAuthorIndex: Load author index when needed
  GhostAuthorIndex-->>SearchWidget: Return author profiles
  SearchWidget->>SearchLayout: Match and display profile links
  Visitor->>SearchLayout: Select an author profile
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Validate author profile links and prevent stale palette results from appearing complete before merging.

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Searching for a writer's name only ever surfaced their posts; nothing in
the widget led to the author's own profile page. A new opt-in option,
showAuthorProfiles, adds matching authors as profile links.

The author list comes from Ghost's search index endpoint
(/ghost/api/content/search-index/authors/), the same one Ghost's
built-in search uses. The Content API key and admin URL are read from
Ghost's search script tag before the widget removes it, so Code
Injection installs need no extra config; ghostContentApiKey and
ghostUrl override them. The list is fetched lazily on first open, once
per page, and cached in sessionStorage per admin URL. A failed load
leaves the section out without retrying.

Matching is a word-prefix match, case- and accent-insensitive, from two
characters, capped at three authors. Modal: an Authors group above the
results that joins arrow-key/Enter navigation. Palette: an Authors
group above Posts (Enter opens, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter opens a new tab),
honouring showGroupLabels. Discovery: a Tab-reachable strip above the
results, and byline names link to fetched profiles. Profile links are
not reported as result clicks.

The option defaults to false and the default markup is unchanged. The
playground gains a toggle backed by a mock author index endpoint.
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Review comments at @packages/search-ui/src/layouts/palette.js:
- Around line 795-806: Track the query associated with the rendered model in the
palette’s results state, updating it when `renderEmpty()` or the
results-rendering method accepts a query. In `renderAuthorProfiles()`, repaint
only when results are showing, the query is non-empty, and `currentQuery`
matches the query for the rendered model.

Review comments at @packages/search-ui/src/search.js:
- Around line 842-859: Add a shared check that accepts only HTTP(S) author
profile URLs, and apply it in matchAuthorProfiles and the other author profile
lookup path so cached and freshly fetched profiles are both filtered before
rendering links. Do not apply this check to profile_image; keep
normalizeAuthorProfile’s image handling unchanged.

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Comment thread packages/search-ui/src/search.js Resolved
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Only http(s) profile URLs are rendered. Attribute escaping does not stop a
javascript: URL from running when the link is followed, so authors with
any other scheme are dropped from both the fetched list and the
sessionStorage copy.

The palette now tracks the query its results were rendered for. When
Ghost's author list arrived while a newer query was still in flight, the
repaint paired that query's authors with the previous post rows and
cleared the "Searching…" status; it now waits for the pending results,
which render with the list anyway.
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