Core CMS v0.5.7: Modular Site Search & Skeleton-Skin Overrides

Welcome to Core CMS v0.5.7! Following our localization and modified date tracking updates, this release delivers one of our most requested features: a fully integrated, modular Search Plugin. We've also standardized our theme override capabilities through a strict Skeleton-Skin Architecture, ensuring that plugins supply the functionality and layout structure while individual themes customize the premium aesthetic.

Here is what's new in v0.5.7:

🔍 The New Modular Search Plugin (v1.0.0)

We have designed and launched a brand-new, highly customizable search plugin that brings native search capabilities to the Core CMS ecosystem:

• Dynamic Routing: Includes a lightweight, dynamic /search?q= routing interceptor that handles queries on the fly without database bloat.
• Header Navigation Toggle: Embeds a search icon toggle directly into the site header navigation menu. Clicking it opens a beautiful, glassmorphic dropdown search bar.
• Admin Settings: A dedicated dashboard configuration page allows you to manage the plugin's behavior, with a Zero Residue "Deep Clean" button to safely remove all search settings from the database upon deletion.

📝 Center-Aligned Editor.js Search Bar Block

Adding search forms to your content pages is now easier than ever:

• Dedicated Block Tool: We added a custom search_bar block type inside our Editor.js page builder.
• Flexible Justification: Administrators can choose between Left, Right, or Center alignment directly from the block configuration menu.
• Responsive Layout: Designed to look clean and align perfectly on all screen sizes, matching the width and flow of adjacent blocks.

🧼 High-Fidelity JSON Excerpt Engine

Search results need to look tidy, and raw HTML or JSON code bleed is unacceptable.

• Smart Extraction: We developed a custom JSON content parser (search_plugin_extract_text_from_blocks()) to scan the Editor.js JSON payload.
• Clean Snippets: The engine intelligently extracts clean text from paragraph, header, and list blocks, automatically generating short, highly readable search result descriptions.

🎨 Theme Overrides & Skeleton-Skin separation

We have codified our design guidelines to strictly separate structural skeletons from theme aesthetics:

• Standardized Skills: Updated both plugin-developer and theme-developer skills to enforce the Skeleton-Skin model.
• Cohesive Aesthetics: Injected native .glass-panel search overrides across all four core themes (Default, Glassmorphism, Technomancer, and Sylvan River).
• Consistently Premium: Refactored the core search results templates to utilize .glass-panel wrappers, ensuring that results display as beautiful cards on every active theme.

— Jason Brain