SDAC Inc | Chicagoland Web Development » search http://www.sandboxdev.com Just another Sandbox Development and Consulting Inc. Sites site Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:57:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Search Specific Category in WordPresshttp://www.sandboxdev.com/2007/10/10/search-specific-category-in-wordpress/ http://www.sandboxdev.com/2007/10/10/search-specific-category-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:49:33 +0000 Jennifer Zelazny http://www.sandboxdev.com/2007/10/10/search-specific-category-in-wordpress.php There are some times when you want to limit your search to a particular category, or perhaps multiple categories. This is relatively simple to do in WordPress by adding a hidden field to your search code. (See example below)

<form method="get" id="search form" action="/">
<div>
<input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="hidden" value="22" name="cat" id="scat" />
</div>
</form>

You can see I added my hidden input field on the third line. When I add this in, it then adds onto the query used to search. Your search will go from something like http://www.sandboxdev.com/?s=WordPress to http://www.sandboxdev.com/?s=WordPress&cat=22 and will only return posts in the category ID you choose.

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