# Option for custom "Guidelines" URL (not FAQ)?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038 "2018-08-17T23:06:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038/1 "2018-08-17T23:06:29Z")
Would it be possible to have a custom “guidelines url”, the same way there’s an option for “tos url”, “privacy policy url”, and “faq url”?
Asking b/c I got confused about this today 😅 I just realized I’d set the link to our custom forum guidelines as the “faq url” and somehow missed or forgot that this doesn’t replace the existing link, but rather adds _another_ and renames “faq” to “guidelines”.
So I saw we ended up with “Guidelines” which links to /guidelines and “FAQ” which links to a custom guidelines page on our main WordPress site. This is by accident as we don’t really need separate pages for “Guidelines” and “FAQ”; I’d rather just have one external custom guidelines page and then never link anyone to those static pages within Discourse. (So any customizable text that currently links to /guidelines would link to the custom guidelines url as well.)
Is there a reason the /guidelines page must be a page internal to Discourse? To me at least it seems logical for this page to work similarly to the customizable TOS / privacy pages, then all of them could live at custom links on our main site.
If that’s unworkable I’d suggest some clarification in the settings that adding a custom “faq url” is _not_ for custom guidelines but only an _additional_ thing (and the actual guidelines url is not customizable) as right now seems that isn’t really indicated anywhere.
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### Author:  [@sbernhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sbernhard)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038/2 "2021-10-11T18:37:41Z")
Ping - this would be very interesting because the guidelines URL can be different to the FAQ page and can be a
- external URL
- “static page”
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038/3 "2021-10-11T19:00:12Z")
well, a lot happened in 3 years 🙂
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### Author:  [@sbernhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sbernhard)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038/4 "2021-10-11T19:11:33Z")
sure, but I think its still not possible. Am I right?
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-for-custom-guidelines-url-not-faq/95038/5 "2025-07-15T16:56:40Z")
Well, it’s been another 4 years. This behavior (or lack thereof) is now at least documented:
> [@Customizing FAQs and Guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-faqs-and-guidelines/286911):
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> bookmark This is a guide for administrators on customizing the FAQs and Guidelines pages on a Discourse site. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Customizing the FAQ and Guidelines pages in Discourse allows you to tailor the content to fit the specific needs and rules of your community. These pages are often the first point of reference for new users to understand what is expected of them and can also serve as a resource for existing members. FAQ and Guidelines Pages …
It is definitely odd that choosing to host the default `/guidelines` page externally makes another internal-only `/guidelines` page pop up.