Using the content search web part
When working with out of the box SharePoint search web parts, SharePoint 2013 simplifies the process by cutting down the number of web parts from 17 in SharePoint 2010 to just four.
In addition to the core search web parts, there are a number of new web parts that are powered by search. The most important of the bunch, without a doubt, is the content search web part.
The content search web part is the evolution of the content query web part from SharePoint 2007/2010. It allows us to display content straight from the search index, based on a query. For example, we can use the content search web part to display the latest document added on a specific site collection (that is, the knowledge center) to any other site collection in our farm using a simple query!
The content search web part infrastructure relies on two factors:
A query built using the query builder
A display template to render the results
We will discuss display the template in detail in Chapter 4,...