Introduction
Vellumine replaces Ghost's native search with a fast, full-text search bar and gives you analytics on what your readers are looking for.
Vellumine is a search and analytics service built for Ghost CMS. It replaces Ghost's built-in search with a fast, typo-tolerant, full-text search bar and provides you with detailed analytics about how your readers use search on your blog.
Why Vellumine?
Ghost's native search is a useful baseline, but it is not a full search and analytics layer for growing publications. Vellumine addresses that gap:
- Full-text search — Searches the full content of your posts and pages. Authors and tags are indexed too.
- Typo tolerance — Finds the right results even when readers misspell their queries.
- Search analytics — See what your readers are searching for, which results they click, and where searches come up empty.
- Customizable UI — Match your blog's look and feel with templates, colors, and label customization.
- Automatic syncing — Your search index stays up to date with your Ghost content automatically via webhooks.
- Any language — Full Unicode/UTF-8 support. Works with any language and script, including CJK, Arabic, Cyrillic, and more.
- Any hosting provider — Works with Ghost(Pro), self-hosted, or any third-party hosting provider.
- Members-only content as a lead magnet — Indexes gated posts so readers can discover them through search, but never exposes the full content. Readers see that a relevant post exists and are motivated to subscribe.
How It Works
- Create a collection — A collection represents the search index for one Ghost blog. You provide your Ghost Admin API URL and key, and Vellumine indexes all your posts, pages, authors, and tags.
- Add the script tag — Paste a single
<script>tag into Settings → Code injection in your Ghost Admin panel. Vellumine's search bar automatically replaces Ghost's native search. - Readers search, you learn — As readers use search on your blog, Vellumine collects anonymous analytics so you can understand what content your audience is looking for.
For a broader product overview, see Ghost CMS full-text search, Ghost search analytics, and the Ghost search comparison.