Title: Narrowing down filters
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Narrowing down filters

 *  [Jasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucydog/)
 * (@lucydog)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/narrowing-down-filters/)
 * I think I am trying to do the same thing as described in this post, but not sure,
   so I will do my best to explain:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-select-boxes?replies=3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multiple-select-boxes?replies=3)
 * I have two drop down boxes with category filters.
 * The left shows only job categories. When someone picks a job category, it displays
   only posts in that job category. Then, they can further narrow down the list 
   by using the drop-down box on the right, which contains a list of US states.
 * On the Admin side, right now I use the “individual” option and select these categories
   manually but this doesn’t work well because the job categories and jobs within
   each state changes a lot. Sometimes categories have posts in them, and sometimes
   they don’t. If a category has no posts in it today, I can’t add it to the list,
   but it may have posts in it tomorrow.
 * I was hoping that selecting the parent category would allow child categories 
   to show up in the filter whenever they have posts in them, but it seems that 
   child categories need to be selected individually. It seems that if the user 
   adds a new job category, it won’t show up either even if the parent is already
   in the filter.
 * Am I doing something wrong? If this is available on the Pro filter that is fine,
   just let me know.
 * Thank you1
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 * Last reply from: [Jasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucydog/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/narrowing-down-filters/)
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