Keep basic documentation up in search results

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The discussion revolves around improving the visibility of basic documentation in search results, particularly for onboarding new users. thoka seeks to bump a voting-related guide to higher search rankings, noting it wasn’t initially in the top 5 results. Moin suggests adjusting the search priority for a category to elevate documentation, referencing a settings option and a related meta post. thoka observes that the guide is now the second result for ‘vote’, possibly due to bumping, and speculates that the search ranking logic, particularly the `posts.order(

Continuing the discussion from Create a poll that others can vote on:

I would like to know how to bump this kind of #getting-started Documentation to appear higher up in search results (like “create poll”).

I ask a) for myself :innocent: and b) I consider a high ranking of “official support material” in search results as an important feature for an easy onboarding of new users.

I assume that this wish does not apply to all communities.
How could a forum that wants this feature implement it?

You can choose a higher search priority for that category.


(Maybe Making #documentation more prominent in Search is also interesting for you)

One of the purposes of this question was to try to bump the voting doc up.
I wonder whether this was successful.
Should have noted the position, but it was not in the top 5 results.
But now it is the second entry when searching for “vote”.

While reading the source mentioned in Ranking of search results I wonder, if

posts.order("topics.bumped_at DESC")

might have to do with it.