Is it possible to have the search function ONLY return categories and not search users, post, ect.? Thanks in advance.

Open the fullscreen search (e.g. https://meta.discourse.org/search?expanded=true ) and tap on Topics/posts to access the drop-down list of options and select Categories/tags. This isn’t quite what you’ve asked for, but I believe it’s as close as is currently possible. You can access the fullscreen …

Thanks. So I am trying to not customize my personal settings but customize how the broader community can utilize search. I am certain I had this working in a previous build but cannot seem to find it.

Limit Search to Categories only

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 30, 2022, 12:24am 4

Do you want it not to be possible to search for topics? If the search returns only categories, how will people find topics?

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Limit Search to Categories only

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