Title: Search posts by author
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Search posts by author

 *  [alexpi77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexpi77/)
 * (@alexpi77)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-posts-by-author-1/)
 * Hello,
 * I want to extend the default search form by adding the options to set a category
   and an author/user filter. I added wp_dropdown_categories() and wp_dropdown_users()
   to generate the select dropdowns, but only the category filter works as expected.
   The url shows a user parameter, but it is ignored in the results. Any suggestions?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [alexpi77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexpi77/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-posts-by-author-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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