diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index b0131ce..05525d2 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -14,3 +14,21 @@ python:
   install:
     - requirements: requirements.txt
 
+search:
+  ranking:
+    _sources/*: -10
+    genindex.html: -9
+    blog/tag/*: -2
+    blog/category/*: -3
+    blog/author/*: -5
+    blog/20[0-9].html: -5
+    blog/archive.html: -5
+    blog/author.html: -5
+    blog/category.html: -5
+    blog/drafts.html: -5
+    blog/tag.html: -5
+
+  ignore:
+    - 404.html
+    - search.html
+    - index.html
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index 6f138a6..82dd493 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
     "sphinxext.opengraph",
     "sphinx_codeautolink",
     "notfound.extension",
-    "jupyterlite_sphinx",
     "sphinxext.rediraffe",
     "sphinx_sitemap",
 ]
@@ -145,6 +144,7 @@ def setup(app):
 html_theme_options = {
     "show_nav_level": 2,
     "navbar_start": ["navbar-logo"],
+    "search_bar_text": "Search within the PyMC blog...",
 }
 html_context = {
     "github_user": "pymc-devs",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 108d518..c48ca6b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ ablog
 sphinx-codeautolink
 sphinxext-opengraph
 sphinx-notfound-page
-jupyterlite-sphinx
-jupyterlite-pyodide-kernel
 sphinxext-rediraffe
-pymc-sphinx-theme==0.14
+pymc-sphinx-theme>=0.16
 sphinx-sitemap