Title: Multiple categories
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Multiple categories

 *  Resolved [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/)
 * Hi all
 * Just wondering if there is a way to use an AND command, instead of OR, for categories
   with the downloads shortcode?
 * In other words a download must be two (or more) categories to display.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213597)
 * Hey,
 * The downloads shortcode should already be using an `AND` relation, doesn’t it
   for you?
 * Kind Regards,
 * Barry Kooij
 *  Thread Starter [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213611)
 * When it tried this out it was a standard OR operator, not an AND.
 * For example if the the shortcode [downloads category=cat1,cat2] was using an 
   AND operator this would only show downloads that are tagged with both cat1 **
   AND** cat2. Therefore showing a shorter list of filtered results.
 * However at the moment it show downloads tagged with either cat1 **OR** cat2; 
   showing a longer list of results.
 * Any way this can be done with this plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213614)
 * Just to add a bit of meat on the bones.
 * The ‘List category posts’ plugin has a good example of this feature:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/other_notes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/other_notes/)
 * Take a look at the ‘Using more than one category’ section for details.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213648)
 * Thanks for clarifying this! I’ve just patched this and in the next version (1.8)
   you can use OR with comma’s (,) and AND with plus sign (+).
 * GitHub commit: [https://github.com/download-monitor/download-monitor/commit/bb7fff1b2a7723440ef6df0bf0f0be5999447190](https://github.com/download-monitor/download-monitor/commit/bb7fff1b2a7723440ef6df0bf0f0be5999447190)
 *  [IggyR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iggyr/)
 * (@iggyr)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213650)
 * When is the next version scheduled to be released for this feature to be available?
 *  Thread Starter [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/)
 * (@castoruk)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213651)
 * Great, thanks for the update.
 * I’ll try it out when the next release comes out.
 *  [IggyR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iggyr/)
 * (@iggyr)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213652)
 * Update, I’ve edited class-dlm-shortcodes.php manually and it works perfectly.
   Thank you!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213653)
 * That’s great to hear! The next version is expected next week but it’s hard to
   give a good estimation and for me quality will always be more important than 
   meeting deadlines.

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 * Last reply from: [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categories-26/#post-6213653)
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