Algolia Search Integration for Orchard CMS

If you haven’t heard of it, Algolia is a pretty neat and extremely fast hosted indexing/search service. Now, thanks to our new Algolia Search module, you can very easily plug in Algolia search into Orchard CMS!

If you don’t know Orchard already, it’s a pretty good ASP.NET MVC CMS, written in C#. It also has a search and indexing infrastructure built in. The out of the box concrete indexing implementation you can enable is built on Lucene. The Algolia search module plugs into the framework similarly to Lucene: you can use all the existing Orchard search features but now in the background Algolia will index and fetch everything, not Lucene. Furthermore, we’ve overridden how the frontend search works, so it utilizes Algolia’s key feature, its speed, presenting search results instantly.

The Algolia search module is now also available for all sites on DotNest, the Orchard SaaS! So. if you’re a hardcore Orchard developer head over to the module’s repo and dig into the code, or if you’d just want to play with it, check out how to use it on DotNest!

Note: this is a cross-post from the Lombiq blog.