# Enable markdown formatting for Staff Notices
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 5, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165 "2019-07-05T10:20:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@alexs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexs)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165/1 "2019-07-05T10:20:34Z")
Staff Notices are a great way to highlight key posts in a thread (from our team in this instance), which would otherwise be buried or not seen by users who don’t get to them in a long thread.
But at the moment if you include a link in a Staff Notice, it’s not formatted as a URL -
I’m guessing that there would be use cases for other elements of markdown formatting here too e.g. being able to insert emoji would help make the notices more visible.
_These posts aren’t necessarily solutions to a query so using that feature here (which would also cause the checkbox to be shown next to the topic’s title), isn’t appropriate._
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165/2 "2019-07-05T12:20:10Z")
Yeah, adding “basic” support for markdown would be nice. Not sure we want oneboxes though.
@dan can you add that to your list. Low priority.
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### Author:  [@cjk77](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cjk77)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165/3 "2019-07-05T13:10:06Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Not sure we want oneboxes though.
I’d think basic MD and linkification of URLs would be sufficient – and a welcome enhancement to an already useful feature.
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165/4 "2019-07-07T11:38:04Z")
This will be ready as soon as [#7864](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7864) will be merged.
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-markdown-formatting-for-staff-notices/122165/5 "2019-07-10T13:58:21Z")