diff --git a/docs/userGuide/makingTheSiteSearchable.md b/docs/userGuide/makingTheSiteSearchable.md
index a1e92e96f4..22ce04db87 100644
--- a/docs/userGuide/makingTheSiteSearchable.md
+++ b/docs/userGuide/makingTheSiteSearchable.md
@@ -47,7 +47,19 @@ You can add a search bar component to your website to allow users to search the
MarkBind now supports [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app/), a static low-bandwidth search library, as a built-in feature. This provides full-text search capabilities without external services.
-This is a beta feature and will be refined in future updates. To use it, you must have enableSearch: true in your site.json (this is the default).
+This is a beta feature and will be refined in future updates. To use it, you explicitly enable it in your site.json. Add the pagefind configuration with enablePagefind: true.
+
+
+
+```json
+{
+ "pagefind": {
+ "enablePagefind": true
+ }
+}
+```
+
+
@@ -94,6 +106,7 @@ In your `site.json`:
```json
{
"pagefind": {
+ "enablePagefind": true,
"exclude_selectors": [".algolia-no-index", "[class*='algolia-no-index']"]
}
}
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/functional/test_site/expected/bugs/index.html b/packages/cli/test/functional/test_site/expected/bugs/index.html
index 0940599353..bc2228078a 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/functional/test_site/expected/bugs/index.html
+++ b/packages/cli/test/functional/test_site/expected/bugs/index.html
@@ -364,6 +364,5 @@