Edward Teach

This handy tip involves customizing you Help Center to display Popular Search topics.

It could be also be used to highlight new or specific articles.

 

Prerequisites:
 

• Technical skills: Just copy and pasting
• Total duration: 5-10 minutes

To add popular searches or topics in Copenhagen Theme
 

1. Go to Guide admin > (👁️‍🗨️) Customize the design.
2. Choose a theme.
3. Click Customize > Edit code.
4. Select the following templates: "document_head.hbs",  "home_page.hbs", and "style.css".

5. Copy and paste the code below to "document_head.hbs". Replace with your desired topic/keyword title and the links for it. The code below includes 4 topics but feel free to add as many or as few as you'd like.
   Pro Tip: Base the topics/keywords from your Search dashboard, see Analyzing help center search results with Explore
   
    

   

    

6. Now, go to "home_page.hbs".

7. Copy and paste the code underneath the,
   {{search submit=false instant=settings.instant_search class='search search-full'}}
   Note: The search icon was removed as it becomes offset when adding the code below.
   

   Popular Search:
   
    

   

8. Then, go to "style.css".
9. Add the code at the very bottom.
   .popular-searches {
       max-width: 960px;
       margin: 0 auto;
       padding-left: 5px;
       text-align: left;
       font-size: 15px;
       color: #ffff;
       margin-top: 1rem;
       user-select: none;
   }
   
   .popular-searches a {
       padding-left: 5px;
       text-decoration: underline;
       text-decoration-color: #ffff;
       text-underline-position: under;
       user-select: none;
   }
   
10. Click Save in all tabs and you're done!