# How to extend "about category" to more than a paragraph

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-extend-about-category-to-more-than-a-paragraph/55263>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [Janeiro 6, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-extend-about-category-to-more-than-a-paragraph/55263 "2017-01-06T05:12:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [Janeiro 6, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-extend-about-category-to-more-than-a-paragraph/55263/3 "2017-01-06T17:57:00Z")

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yep, I hadn’t noticed this.

then I assume there’s no straight forward way to have a longer/list-able description for the category in the category page as well as the short description of the category in the dropdown menu or the category page.

we need a way to communicate with users in each category page, and the short description don’t handle it very good.

e.g. our needs comes from something like this:

_category name:_ feedback

_category short description:_ your feedbacks helps us build a better community.

_category long description:_  
It contains 3-4 segments:

- why would your feedbacks are necessary?
- which parts may need your feedback?
- our timescale to resolve them.

p.s.: I just noticed that here in meta, admins used pinned topic to do the long version of communication, it’ll work but since pinned topic are not very visible I’m still interested to see if there can be a better way.

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