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Search Specific Categories and sub-categories (4 posts)

  1. beccca
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    I have the read the forums and google search but still haven't found out how to do the following:

    I want to search one category and all the subcategories. I tried adding <input type="hidden" name="cat" value="10" />
    but it only searched child categories on my localhost and not when the site was live. I want to manually customize the searchform to search category 10 and all its subcategories / child categories.

    I would be so grateful for any help.

  2. eternalrevolt
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    I am having this issue also. Did one of the 2.X updates break the search by category solution that is posted all over the web?

    I get a "search results not found" page. At the top, I see this string:

    http://eternal-revolution.com/?s=art&cat=145

    Despite the fact that a post with that term exists in that category. In fact, no matter what I search for in what category, I get "No results found."

    If I alter the query to:

    http://eternal-revolution.com/?s=art&category=145

    I get ALL results from ALL categories. (ie Wordpress ignores the category parameter)

    Did something get depreciated?

  3. eternalrevolt
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    Now it looks like certain plugins or themes (such as Thesis, which I am using) breaks this functionality.

  4. eternalrevolt
    Member
    Posted 6 months ago #

    One of 2 plugins was interfering - Category Visibility or Category Order

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