Not displaying author's name in the results' body while still indexing them

[regisphilibert]

🎍Happy New Year to the Pagefind community 🎍

Here's a question to celebrate!

Currently my entries are all prepended by By John Doe plus the date and other metas. Now I don't want those part of the body surfaced by pagefind when listing results. To that effect they are not part of data-pagefind-body. What I do want though is for anyone searching John Doe to be presented with the entries they authored.

What I'm trying to achieve here is not showing the author's name as part of the results body, because it already is displayed as a meta. I want to avoid having "By John Doe" in the body, on top of the "By: John Doe" in the meta below. See what I don't want below:

To achieve this, I've been trying to include the name in search by passing it as an attribute rather than in the body like so:

<span data-pagefind-meta="Author:John Doe" 
      data-pagefind-index-attrs="data-names" 
      data-names="John Doe"
 >
    by <a href="/authors/john-doe/">John Doe</a>
 </span>

But when I do this, searching for John won't bring up the entries of John Doe. (note the real names are more unique than John)

I wonder if anybody has an idea of what I am missing?

Thanks a ton!