# FAQ does not show in search results
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [15 ביוני, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556 "2014-06-15T06:42:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/1 "2014-06-15T06:42:04Z")
The FAQ should show when clicking on the magnifying glass.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/2 "2014-06-15T06:50:10Z")
What do you mean here?
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/3 "2014-06-15T07:33:07Z")
Click Magnifying glass and type FAQ. 😄
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/4 "2014-06-15T07:54:12Z")
This reminds me though, I want to move this non-editable content to a different permanent URL like /community-guidelines and have /FAQ be a re mappable alias – to a real Discourse topic. I mean, it already is, but we need the alternate permanent URL for what we now call FAQ.
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### Author:  [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/5 "2014-06-15T08:38:27Z")
I just had to reformat the whole FAQ (from the source code) to markdown.
[http://forum.talksurf.com/faq](http://forum.talksurf.com/faq)
I’d recommend:
1. Having the FAQ be in markdown.
2. Allowing one to prepend site specific content, and then have the standard discourse good behavior.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/6 "2014-06-15T09:57:32Z")
By having it a real topic it would make it much easier for forum admins to go in and customise (you could even make it a wiki and the community could edit it)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/7 "2014-06-15T10:04:21Z")
This is fairly universal to communicating with other human beings, it’s not really good wiki material.
I do like that approach for admin quick start guide and “other” faq (and I want to move this to a new URL).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [15 ביוני, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/8 "2014-06-15T10:17:58Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> it’s not really good wiki material.
I guess, regardless it should be easily editable by admins. Lot’s of stuff tends to be community specific. Also, being a topic you get search for free.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 ביולי, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/9 "2014-07-12T16:53:51Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I want to move this non-editable content to a different permanent URL like /community-guidelines and have /FAQ be a re mappable alias – to a real Discourse topic
This is now complete, so `/guidelines` is always stable even if `/faq` is remapped to a topic.
When we speak of “[community guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines)” we always reference it internally as `/guidelines` for this reason. The FAQ can be whatever you want it to be now, just point it to a wiki topic, as noted in the Admin Quick Start Guide.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 בדצמבר, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-does-not-show-in-search-results/16556/10 "2025-12-04T11:14:26Z")