Title: categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# categories

 *  [miseno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miseno/)
 * (@miseno)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/)
 * Hi,
 * I want to ask if it is possible to split categories into two and do it so, that
   in each category one category must be selected? Thanks a lot for help.

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009817)
 * Can you explain that some more?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009828)
 * You could add two categories that use your one category as a Parent Category.
 * But not sure about the “each category one category must be selected?” ability.
 *  Thread Starter [miseno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miseno/)
 * (@miseno)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009864)
 * For example I want to have category
 * Class
    – Languages – Math – …
 * and another independent category
 * School
    – High school – University – …
 * author must select one from Class and one form School. Thanks
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009873)
 * There is no reason you can’t organize your posts like that but I think you’ll
   have to write a custom search to get the results you want.
 * oh… but you aren’t talking about a search are you? You are talking about _requiring_
   a post author to select one of each category before the post can be published,
   yes? That… is harder. I’d have to think about it but I’m pretty sure it means
   writing a plugin and hooking into the [WP post publishing functions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference#Post.2C_Page.2C_Attachment.2C_and_Category_Actions).
 *  Thread Starter [miseno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miseno/)
 * (@miseno)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009878)
 * exactly, post author must select from both at east one before publishing. I dont
   want to know what that means for search :)))
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009879)
 * The search might be the easier part. I don’t think WP will do anything like what
   you want so you might be looking at having to write a plugin, or having to commission
   someone to write it for you.
 *  Thread Starter [miseno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miseno/)
 * (@miseno)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009882)
 * Thanks a lot for help and time apljdi (and MichaelH). Hope i will find some solution
   or another posibility to do what i want 🙂
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009894)
 * Might use these two plugins to restrict categories users can assign when writing
   posts:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/level2categories-2/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/level2categories-2/)
   
   [http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/](http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/)
   described at [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240606](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240606)
   by mtg169

Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total)

The topic ‘categories’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [restrict_cats](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/restrict_cats/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-25/#post-1009894)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics