# Use Discourse Docs plugin for site search and navigation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025
**Category:** Administrators
**Tags:** docs, how-to
**Created:** [September 14, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025 "2022-09-14T19:32:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025/1 "2022-09-14T19:32:46Z")

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Discourse Docs plugin is not just great for Knowledge Base Topics.

This plugin also works splendidly to provide users a powerful tool for filtering and sorting through all of the Topics on a Discourse site.

While you can certainly designate and limit the Categories to provide searching across only a subset of Topics such as Knowledge Base articles, you can also think of Discourse Docs as a supplementary Search tool with an efficient “drill-down” capability…

 ![Screenshot 2022-09-14 131119](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/6/4/964a56ff791d6bba34eebb910fe077c133837c58.png)

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### Author: ![jamierobinson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jamierobinson/32/248189_2.png) [@jamierobinson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamierobinson)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025/2 "2022-09-14T20:36:27Z")

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This is quite spooky as exactly the thing I have been thinking about! Is there any way to change the word “docs” to something else in the menu?

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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025/3 "2022-09-14T20:48:48Z")

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`admin > modify > text` or what it is now in english and searching doc. Just change it — I’m using Blog 🙂

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### Author: ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025/4 "2022-09-14T21:49:02Z")

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Yes @jamierobinson go to [yoursite.com](https://yoursite.com/admin/customize/site_texts)

I changed mine to “All Posts”

 ![Screenshot 2022-09-14 154647](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/6/4/464c7d1372fd48d6512a574e36a429e1e58164db.png)

 ![Screenshot 2022-09-14 155049](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/c/2/5c2a95f0634553760b4dcc644fe863f0a8acccb5.jpeg)

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### Author: ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-discourse-docs-plugin-for-site-search-and-navigation/239025/5 "2022-09-14T22:00:49Z")

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Adding the Docs Card Filter Theme Component is also a neat way to add even more bling and functionality… (and you can further jazz up those Filter Cards with custom backgrounds and icons)…

> [@Discourse Docs Card Filter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docs-card-filter/187947):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Docs Card Filter is to be used with the [Discourse Docs Plugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs) and allows you to place “Cards” that act as a clickable filter for quicker filter results upon entering the /docs page by your users.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/docs-card-filter)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs-card-filter](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs-card-filter)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme comp…

For example…

 ![Screenshot 2022-09-14 155636](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/b/d/0bda6637226a58478b1895418c4ea3e07234e1fd.png)
