Title: Limiting the Filter Options
Last modified: April 11, 2017

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# Limiting the Filter Options

 *  Resolved [FDF](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timt20/)
 * (@timt20)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limiting-the-filter-options/)
 * Hi Guys,
 * I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me.
 * I’m currently setting up a job board on my website.
 * I’m trying to work out how to ensure on the parent job listings are available
   in the filter menu and not the sub categories. I am having to create a large 
   number of job types which I don’t want to display in the filter options – I just
   want the main parent Caterogies to be shown.
 * Does anyone have any idea if/how I could achieve this?
 * Many thanks for any help.
 * Tim

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 *  Plugin Contributor [jonryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonryan/)
 * (@jonryan)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limiting-the-filter-options/#post-9029268)
 * [@timt20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timt20/) the if you just show the
   parent categories anything with a child category will show up, so that is good.
   Honestly I’m not familiar with this part of the code but you will need to modify
   this method which generates the drop down:
 * [https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/blob/d1bd23739ab61bcf7c23016fb41f3fb91c79727c/wp-job-manager-functions.php#L558](https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/blob/d1bd23739ab61bcf7c23016fb41f3fb91c79727c/wp-job-manager-functions.php#L558)
 * Pretty sure you need to set the depth to 1 there, but it doesn’t appear there
   is a filter to do that so you’ll need to hardcode that in I think.

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