Title: Developing an Advanced Search
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Developing an Advanced Search

 *  [Ron Strilaeff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronstrilaeff/)
 * (@ronstrilaeff)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-an-advanced-search/)
 * Hi,
 * Based on what I learned from you here I’m building an advanced search UI for 
   my site stalkerville.net, and I hope you can help me with a tip. May I direct
   you to a question I asked here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-exclude-taxonomyterm-using-url-alone?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-exclude-taxonomyterm-using-url-alone?replies=1)
 * In summary: you know how a comma between terms in a url is parsed by wp as an“
   OR” while a plus symbol is parsed as an “AND”. Is there a way to have parse_request()
   or some othe action / filter hook parse a minus sign in the argument list as 
   a “NOT IN” when it builds the query args?
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-multiple-taxonomies/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-multiple-taxonomies/)

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