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# Configuring Joomla Search Options

> Learn how to enhance user experience by editing search options on your Joomla website.

[Joomla](https://hosting.com/hosting/platforms/joomla-hosting) site administrators can modify the default options in the search component to enhance user experience.This article shows you how to edit the search options on your website powered by [Joomla](https://hosting.com/hosting/platforms/joomla-hosting).

## Configure search options for Joomla site

To configure search options in Joomla, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your Joomla site with an administrator account.

2. On the top bar, click on **Components**, and then click on **Search**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-joomla-search-3.png)

3. Click on **Options** on the **Search Manager** page:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-joomla-search-2.png)

4. Following are the options to customize the search on Joomla:

* Gather Search Statistics. Whether or not to gather search statistics for the web site. If set to "No", no information will be collected from users' searches.

* Use Search Options. Whether or not to show the Search Options in the front-end.

* Use Search Areas. Whether or not to show the search areas checkboxes in the front-end search options, so users can choose what kind of items to search.

* Created Date. Whether or not to show the Creation Date for items that are displayed in search results in the front-end.

* OpenSearch Name. Name displayed for this site as search provider.

* OpenSearch Description. Description displayed for this site as a search provider.

5. Click on the toggle to enable the options, then click **Save** to set the options:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-joomla-search-1.png)

## Related articles

* [Administering Joomla from the command line](/docs/administering-joomla-from-the-command-line)

* [Changing the website URL in Joomla](/docs/changing-the-website-url-in-joomla)

* [Optimizing Joomla](/docs/optimizing-joomla)